What Dana works on
The lessons follow the order a newcomer meets things at a real table: buying chips, reading the layout, placing an outside bet, then the inside bets that pay more and win less often. Each lesson ends with a task you complete by playing, so nothing moves forward until the idea has been tried on the cloth at least once.
The payout drills copy the way dealers practice. A drill puts chips on a split, a corner or a street, drops the ball on a number and asks for the payout. The answer is never typed by hand: the page computes it from the payout rules, so a drill and the guide that explains it can never disagree.
Dana also writes the guides to the American table layout and the wheel itself, where the double zero changes the price of almost every bet. Those pages carry interactive diagrams you can explore part by part or turn into a short quiz, and the parts and their descriptions are checked against the same numbers the lessons use.
If something reads wrong on a page Dana wrote, the contact address at the foot of every page reaches the whole team. Corrections are made in the payout rules first and then flow into every lesson, drill and table at once, which is the point of keeping every number in one place instead of scattered through the text.
A typical lesson starts as a question a newcomer would ask at the table, such as where a chip goes for a split or what the dealer does after the call. Dana writes the answer, turns it into a task on the practice table, and then reads the page on a phone to check that every step still makes sense.
Pages by Dana Whitcomb
- Free roulette: Practice American, European and French roulette with play chips. No sign-up, no download, real odds.
- Home: The round, every bet and its payout, and a practice table to try it before you sit down.
- Roulette bets: Every inside and outside bet on the American table, what it pays and which one costs the least.
- Roulette terms: Plain definitions for the wheel, the bets and the phrases you will hear at a roulette table.
- Roulette tips: Twelve table rules that save money and friction: wheel choice, chip size, etiquette and when to stand up.
- Table layout: Three columns, two green zeros and a ring of outside boxes: how to read the American betting board.
- The wheel: Bowl, rotor, 38 pockets and the odd number order: how the American double-zero wheel actually works.