About minimum and maximum bet at roulette

Is it me being nonhuman, or are they all linguistically challenged?

If we all agree with each other and not with you, perhaps it's the former?:-P

Can you bet only the inside or only the outside or do you have to bet both?

And who says Roulette isn't confusing?

Quote: kp

Can you bet only the inside or only the outside or do you have to bet both?

And who says Roulette isn't confusing?

You do not have to bet both. Each outside bet must be at least the minimum ($5 in our example on the previous page). If you chose to play the inside also/instead, the sum of the inside bets must be >$5. Different casinos have different betting increments for the inside bets, but $1 is pretty common. So, you'd have to put at least five $1 chips in play on the inside bets.

Quote: rdw4potus

You do not have to bet both. Each outside bet must be at least the minimum ($5 in our example on the previous page). If you chose to play the inside also/instead, the sum of the inside bets must be >$5. Different casinos have different betting increments for the inside bets, but $1 is pretty common. So, you'd have to put at least five $1 chips in play on the inside bets.

Well, what you meant is correct. It is that the sum of the inside bets must be equal to or greater than the table minimum. (you used the symbol for greater than). So yes. If the table minimum is five dollars and a player chooses to make any inside bets then his inside bets must total atleast the table minimum. If he chooses to make an Outside bet (2:1 or 1:1) each and every one of his outside bets must be at least the table minimum which in our example is five dollars.

I rarely make Inside Bets except when its a two bet for my companion and the dealer, then its a straight up or split bet. Otherwise I'm an outside bettor even though I'm told that since they are all at 5.26percent I should go for the 35:1 payoffs since compared to other games, those payouts are cheap.

In Europe the posted minimums are slightly different.

$5 would be the amount that had to be placed on an outside bet.

$1 is the minimum bet on a inside number. You could just bet $1 on 1 number should you so desire. The bets do not have to add up to the posted outside total. minimum bet.

Quite simply yes; you could place $1 on the 1-6 six line and $1 on the 7-12 six line and you are essentially getting the same bet as $2 on the dozen. So yes, you can avoid the posted dozen minimum by placing the bets on the six lines as you describe. As you say you could also play the first three six lines with $1 each and it would be the same as $3 on low numbers, again a way to get around the outside chance minimum should you wish to do so.