The tables/Table No. 01 · French roulette, La Partage
Vieux-Port Roulette
Thirty-seven pockets, one of them emerald. Our house wheel is French: a single zero, a cloth ruled in champagne and the old La Partage courtesy, which hands back half of every even-money chip when zero lands. Place as many chips as you like, press Spin and watch the numbers blur, slow and settle.
Table No. 01French wheel · La PartageChips 5 to 500 VL
Played with free Velora Chips only. They have no cash value and the refill is always free.
How to play
Chips down, then Spin.
- Pick a chip value from the row beneath the table: 5, 25, 100 or 500 VL.
- Tap any number, or one of the outside boxes: a dozen, a column, red or black, odd or even, low or high. Every tap adds one chip, so tap again to stack another.
- Press Spin. The wheel turns for a few seconds and the result appears in the hub, on the cloth and in the list of last numbers.
- Chips on the spots that match come back with their payout. If zero lands, La Partage returns half of each chip on red, black, odd, even, 1–18 or 19–36; everything else is cleared.
- “Repeat stake” lays down the same arrangement again; “Clear” lifts every chip before you spin.
Reading the payouts
What “35 to 1” really means.
| A single number | 35 to 1The smallest target on the cloth and the longest odds: one pocket in thirty-seven. |
|---|---|
| A dozen or a column | 2 to 1Twelve numbers at once, either a block of the 1st, 2nd or 3rd twelve, or one of the three long columns. Cleared when zero lands. |
| Red or black, odd or even, 1–18 or 19–36 | 1 to 1Eighteen numbers each. The green zero belongs to none of them. |
| Zero lands: La Partage | Half backEach even-money chip returns half its value. A 100 VL chip on red comes home as 50 VL. |
A 10 VL chip on a single number that comes up returns 350 VL plus the original 10. The figures describe how often each spot is expected to appear over many spins, not what the next spin will do: every result is drawn fresh, and the wheel has no memory of the last one.
Rounds and chips
One spin, one round.
Your stake leaves the balance when you press Spin, and anything collected, including the half returned by La Partage, is added the moment the wheel stops. The table will not let you lay down more chips than you hold. If the balance runs dry, the refill button at the top of the panel restores 5,000 VL for free, as often as you need it.
Velora Chips have no cash value and no use outside this salon. A long run of empty spins costs you nothing but a refill, and a tall stack is simply a tall stack.
A word on pace
Let the wheel take its time.
The wheel here is deliberately slow. Four seconds of turning is a breath between rounds, not a delay to skip. If you notice you are spinning without really watching, take that as the cue to stand up and stretch. Our responsible play page lets you set a reminder or pause every table for an hour, a day or a week.
The story
A wheel that shares.
Partage means sharing, and the rule is an old French courtesy: when the green zero turns up, the table does not sweep the even-money chips away but splits them with you. We named the wheel for the Vieux-Port, the old harbour at the foot of the grey-stone quarter, where the salons that inspired us kept their tall windows open to the river.
The zero is emerald for the same reason the rest of the house is quiet. Emerald is our single bright accent: it marks the zero on the wheel, the buttons you press and the pocket where the ivory ball rests in our monogram. Everything else is pearl, ink and champagne.
Three questions
At the rail.
Is the wheel fair?
Each spin picks one of the 37 pockets at random using your browser's built-in random number generator, with every pocket equally likely. Results are simulated for entertainment, and nothing is weighted toward or away from your chips.
What happens to my chip on red when zero comes up?
La Partage hands back half of it. The same goes for black, odd, even, 1–18 and 19–36. Chips on the dozens, the columns and single numbers other than zero are cleared, and a chip placed directly on 0 collects at 35 to 1.
Can I keep what I collect?
Only as a number on your screen. Velora Chips have no cash value and cannot be exchanged, transferred or withdrawn. They stay in your browser until you clear them.