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• n  a line generated by a point on one figure rolling around a second figure
• n  a wheel with teeth for making a row of perforations
• n  a gambling game in which players bet on which compartment of a revolving wheel a small ball will come to rest in

• And just as in roulette, the house will hold an advantage.
• If you have to gamble, do it fast and do it social: craps, roulette, a sports bet, a 45-minute round of blackjack you set a timer to.
• Vexed by his losses at Monte Carlo, an indignant player in sleek evening clothes rose from one of the roulette tables last week, extracted a hand grenade from his tailcoat .

• line roulette
• toothed wheel

News & Articles

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• Wheeling Island to Keep the Dice Rolling
  WHEELING - West Virginia legislators refused to lower the annual $2.5 million table gambling fee this year, but the roulette wheels will keep spinning at Wheeling Island Hotel-Casino-Racetrack. "Are we still losing money? Yes.
  June 11, 2013 - The Intelligencer / Wheeling News-Register
• Sharapova wins Russian roulette of a semi-final
  By Julien Pretot PARIS (Reuters) - Maria Sharapova turned her French Open semi-final into a game of Russian roulette, firing winners and ugly shots with equal measure as the champion bludgeoned her way past third seed Victoria Azarenka 6-1 2-6 6-4 on Thursday. The Russian, who next meets world number one Serena Williams, served 12 aces and 11 double faults in a see-saw encounter against the ...
  June 7, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News
• Tennis-Sharapova wins Russian roulette of a semi-final
  * Sharapova serves 12 aces and 11 double faults * Azarenka surrenders after over 2 hours of baseline biffing * Sharapova to play Serena Williams in final (Adds quotes) By Julien Pretot PARIS, June 6 (Reuters) - Maria Sharapova turned her French Open semi-final into a game of Russian roulette, firing winners and ugly shots with equal measure as the champion bludgeoned her way past third seed ...
  June 6, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! Sports

Quotes

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• Chris Dodd in Herald Zeitung
  Doing nothing, though, "plays Russian roulette with the entire economy of the United States," Dodd said. "Inaction is no solution."
• Brian Knutson in CNN
  It didn't matter if the sexy woman didn't tell you anything about the odds of winning a roulette game,Knutson said. "What really matters is that the sexy woman is having an emotional impact. That bleeds over into your financial decisions."
• Harry Reid in San Francisco Chronicle
  Reid said Bush's plan to set up private Social Security investment accounts for workers under age 55 and cut guaranteed benefits for younger workers "isn't really Social Security reform. It's more like Social Security roulette. ...... And that's...