UK Sterling Casino Games: Casinos in London, England, Gambling in Pounds & Euros

Casinos in the United States and the United Kingdom are worlds apart, although US and UK casino gambling styles co-exist in gambling meccas like Las Vegas, Atlantic City, Indian casinos, or Macau in Asia. Other than the obvious difference between betting in US Dollars and gambling in UK Sterling, Pounds, Euros, there is more divergence than meets the eye.

Roulette is no doubt top-of-mind when it comes to US and UK casino games. Any roulette wheel contains numbers 1 through 36, but beyond these is a vital difference. European Roulette, also known as Single Zero Roulette, has 37 pockets on the wheel – 1 through 36 plus a zero. American Roulette, also known as Double Zero Roulette, has 38 pockets on the wheel – 1 through 36 plus two zeroes.

Therefore, betting differs greatly between the two variations of roulette. In European Roulette, a single number has a 1/37 probability of winning and 36/37 probability of losing, resulting in a house edge of 2.70%. A single number in American Roulette has a 1/38 chance to win and 3/38 chance to lose, or a house edge of 5.26%. UK's Pound & Sterling casinos offer Single Zero Roulette, needless to say, more than Double Zero Roulette.

Popular among UK Sterling casinos's highrollers is Baccarat, which is a European gambling relative of the card games Faro and Basset. Casino baccarat and mini baccarat hailed from the gambling trailblazers of Europe. Baccarat was believed introduced into France from Italy, and first found popularity as a recreation of European nobility.

European baccarat games like Baccarat Chemin de Fer (James Bond, Spy 007's favorite) and Baccarat Banque (Casino Royale villain Le Chifr's downfall) are kept alive in UK baccarat and in European casinos whereas the North American baccarat game Punto Banco persists in Las Vegas casinos and elsewhere in the US.

Another big difference has to do with the question: What's a casino like? The answer is easily that US casinos are mega-complexes complete with the slew of non-gambling tourist amenities imaginable. This is true about Las Vegas casino hotels and casino spa mega-resorts, adapted later on to Macau casino hotels, Atlantic City spa casinos, or Indian casino resorts due to their overwhelming customer appeal.

London, UK casino gambling takes place in a much smaller scale, at quaint casinos and gambling machines, like slots and video poker, installed in pubs, arcades, cafes. With none of the extra perks like Las Vegas shows, shopping, tourist attractions. Examples are London casinos like Fifty London, Golden Nugget London, The Sportsman Casino, and London Rendezvous, Southend's Westcliff Casino, and Rendezvous Casino in both Southend and Brighton.

It was not until 2005 that UK gambling opened up to the building of a supercasino as in Las Vegas hotels, beginning with Sportscity Manchester, to be completed in 2010. For that matter, the Las Vegas mega-casino types are mostly absent from European casino gambling, as with Italy's Casino Sanremo or Casino di Venezia in Venice, Ireland casinos like Silks Club, 78 Club, and many other Dublin casinos, Dortmund's Casino Hohensyburg in Germany, or Sweden's Casino Cosmopol Stockholm.

If Sportscity Manchester Supercasino or The Sportsman Casino are any indication, UK sports betting is a big deal, as are UK horse racing, UK greyhound racing, and the UK lottery. Bookmakers can get competitive in football betting pools as in association football or soccer betting, and state-owned Tote horse betting pools. Lottery games include the Lotto, Lotto Extra, and Thunderball of the UK National Lottery, and the EuroMillions pan-European super lottery.

In England, UK gambling, sports books and horse race books are just a wee bit bigger than casinos (table games, slot machines, video poker, poker games) whereas it's the other way around in US gambling. Sterling UK bingo halls are another big thing, with a popularity that dates as far back as Sterling UK casinos. Two separate betting and gaming laws legalized UK commercial bingo in 1960 and UK commercial casinos in 1968.

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