The Roulette Street Bet!
Ah yes, it’s an easy bet to place online and in a bricks and mortar casino. It’s also the easiest bet to place when asking the dealer to place it for you.
‘Give me $10 on 16th Street please’. How hard is that?
Street bets can also be a useful part of some system bets that allow you to cover a big part of the layout, perhaps with the opportunity to make a few winners, too.
Let’s get started.
What is a Street Bet in Roulette?
As you can see from the infographic above, the Street bet covers three consecutive numbers that are in a line across the layout.
If you bet $1 on the Street and it hits, you get paid $11, plus you keep the original $1 bet.
A Straight Up is a bet that covers one number; a Split covers two numbers so a Street gives you more coverage for your money, but also has a reduction in how much you’re paid when it wins.
The Street bet offers a nice compromise between being hard to hit and getting a big payout.
The odds of hitting a Street bet are 8.10%, there are 12 Street bets on the layout, and they all pay 11 to 1.
How to Place a Street Bet
Online casinos don’t necessarily replicate a real roulette layout. Sometimes they have a left-handed layout on a right-handed table, or the numbers facing the wrong way and so on.
But it’s not difficult to figure it out.
Click the chip that has the denomination that you wish to bet, and then click the line that divides the Dozen from the number in the first column that you want to bet.
On a computer-based game, you can bet on either end of the three numbers, with the chip halfway into the number and halfway over the line outside of the number.
In a land-based casino, betting the Street is simple, too.
Take your bet and place it halfway between the number and the Dozen, on the line that divides the Dozen from the Inside numbers.
For example, if you want to bet on the 10, 11, and 12, place the bet on the line as shown in the picture above. Note that in a land-based casino, the bet should never be made on the side opposite to the Dozen betting space.
Similarly, another example shows how to place the bet on the 16, 17, and 18, simply by placing the bet on the line that divides the number 16 from the 2nd 12 betting space.
And if you want to bet on 31, 32, and 33, place the bet on the line between the 31 and the 3rd 12 betting space as shown in the picture above.
Payouts and Odds for Street Bets
The Street bet pays 11 to 1, and the odds of the dealer hitting one of your three numbers is 8.11% on a European wheel (3/37 = 8.11%), and 7.89% on an American wheel (3/38 = 7.89%). Which means it is more likely to hit on the European wheel versus the American wheel.
Why is it more likely to hit on the European wheel vs. the American wheel?
Because there are 38 possible pockets on the American wheel and only 37 on the European wheel.
The House Advantage of a Street bet is the same as the overall HA on the type of wheel the game employs. A French Wheel with a single zero and 37 numbers has a House Advantage of 2.7%. The HA on the American Wheel with a single and double zero and 38 numbers is 5.26%.
Street Bets Strategy
Using multiple Street bets as part of a larger strategy can be an effective way to increase your coverage while still managing risk and getting good value.
For example, you can bet 6 x $5 chips and cover 18 numbers, almost half of the layout, with a $30 bet.
The Strategy works like this:
See the last number rolled, and then select the area of the layout that will allow you to bet 6 Streets in an unbroken block.
For example, if the last number rolled was a 7, then move away from the wheel and bet $5 on each of the next 6 Streets without a break, which would be 10th, 13th, 16th, 19th, 22nd, and 25th Streets
It would look like this on an American layout:
If one of your bets wins, you get paid $55, minus the $25 on the Streets that didn’t hit for a win of $30 and your initial bet of $5 is returned to you.
This is a simplified version of the Romanovsky Strategy or the 24 + 8 Strategy. You have a reduced bet and reduced coverage so less risk.
On a French layout, the bet covers 48.65% of the layout, and on the American layout it covers 47.37% of the layout, and they both may give you a net win of $30 for your $30 bet.
This strategy can be quite successful as long as you remember to cash out when you have put together a few small wins.
If you lose one bet, place the exact same group of Streets, but double your bet to $10 per spot, for a $60 total bet. Your bet has just become a combination of the 6 Street Strategy and the Martingale Strategy. And if you now hit a winner, it pays you a net win of $60 plus your $10 bet is returned to you as well.
If you start with a small bankroll, say $300, and then win $30 a few times in a row, and maybe an occasional $60 winner, you can win $120 to $180 and take your winnings to the bank.
The Street bet can offer good value because you can bet on three numbers with only one chip, so you have a hit percentage of 8.11%.
It may be that you start to see a number repeating, or a section of the wheel coming up more often than you think it should.
Of course, there is no evidence to suggest that there are hot (or cold) numbers, because the wheel doesn’t know what numbers just came up. Occasionally you may see what appears to be a pattern that says to you ‘follow me, I’m really happening’ (and of course, it’s not!) but you may want to try and follow it if that’s makes sense to you.
The Pros and Cons of Street Bets
Here’s what you need to consider if you want to go with stree bets in Roulette:
- Pros: A positive of the Street bet is that you can cover three times as many numbers and still get a decent payout of 11 to 1. Betting one chip on the Straight Up pays a juicy 35 to 1, but the individual numbers are always difficult to hit.
- You get some flexibility as you can combine the Street bet with other Street bets and cover a big chunk of the layout.
- From my point of view, I like the Street bets because they have lower volatility than the Straight Up and Splits, but at 11 to 1, they offer a better payout than the even money bets like Red and Black, or even the 2 to 1 payout of the Dozens and the Columns.
- Cons: Quite a high volatility when compared to the Outside bets, and still only cover three numbers, so don’t offer much coverage until you start betting them in blocks.
The Street bet offers a middle ground strategy between the highly volatile Straight Ups and the low volatility High/Low and Odd/Even etc.
Feel free to refer to this table whenever you’re not sure about the bet types you’d approach:
| Pros | Cons |
| Lower volatility than the Straight Ups and Splits, and still pays a decent 11 to 1. | High volatility when compared to the even money Outside bets like Red and Black, Odd and Even, and High and Low. |
| Can be flexible when combined with other Street bets to cover a big chunk of the layout. | Like the Straight Ups and Splits, the Street on it’s own doesn’t offer much coverage. |
| Can be offered as part of the ‘3 Quadrant Strategy’, covering 27 of the 36 numbers on the layout. Reminiscent of the Romanovsky System, covering a large part of the available numbers on the layout. | Like the Romanovsky, the extra coverage results in a lower overall payout, so the result is usually several small wins that can be cancelled out by one or two large(ish) losses when they occur. |
Advanced Street Bet Techniques
Some of the more advanced strategies for playing the Street bets include perhaps the most famous strategy, the Martingale System, which is a straightforward negative progression that requires that you double your bet every time you lose a bet.
The 3 Quadrant Strategy may also reduce the risk by betting on 75% of the available numbers. By reducing the layout to 12 groups of three numbers each (The Streets) and then betting on 9 of them, you hedge your bet so that you reduce your risk and the volatility of the game.
Other strategies that you may find interesting include the Fibonacci, the James Bond, the 24 + 8 and the Romanovsky Strategy. Go here for details on the more popular roulette strategies. You may like combining the Romanovsky or the 24+8 with the Street bets to play more challenging and interesting versions of those strategies.
Bankroll Management Tips When Playing The Streets
These tips are relevant to whichever game and strategy you’re playing, especially if you’ve planned a longer session.
Never mix your day-to-day expenses with your gambling bankroll. They must be separate.
Your ‘today’s session’ bankroll should be between 1/4 and 1/3 of your lifetime bankroll.
Make sure you set a daily loss budget number for the day’s session as well as a daily win number. Both are equally important, and if you reach either, you must walk away.
Street Bets in Online vs. Live Roulette
- Placing a Street bet in a ‘Live Dealer’ or a Random Number Generated roulette game are very similar.
- Simply click on the value of the chip(s) that you want to bet and then on the location (4th Street, 22nd Street etc.), and your bet will be in play.
- The only difference is in the number selection, with the Live Dealer spinning the ball and the RNG game randomly selecting the winning number in the software.
- Generally, there are some minor differences in how the interfaces work, and how the game is presented to the players.
- Software developers always try to make sure that their games are easy to play with an intuitive interface, because if not, the players aren’t going to play their game, electing to find a simpler game to play.
Conclusion
The Street bet in roulette is a good compromise bet that will land you in between the high volatility Straight Up and Split bets, and the low volatility even money bets like Red and Black and High and Low.
If you bet the Streets as part of a larger strategy that may include 6 Streets to cover half of the layout (or 7 or 8 Streets to cover more), you can put together a section of the layout on a French wheel that has a 48.65% chance of winning.
With 7 or 8 Streets, you have a 56.75% or 64.86% chance of hitting a winning number.
This may represent an opportunity to put together a series of small wins that can turn into a larger win for you.
So don’t forget the Street bet when you’re looking for a possible way to build a winning strategy.
And as always, good luck.
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