Strange, but many players like it like that and the game variation is popular. It is almost twice as much as the house edge in European Roulette. Currently, the house edge in American Roulette for almost all bets is 5.26%. Gamblers know American Roulette as the “double-zero roulette.” In 1800, some greedy establishments added the thirty-eighth sector to French Roulette-00-to get even more profit.