A €20 wager can leave €10 available to withdraw from the table, or leave money committed to another spin. Reading both outcomes as a "refund" hides the difference. The examples below follow one fictional cash wager, without adding another stake. They explain settlement, not a way to make gambling profitable.
La Partage settles the loss at zero
The French Roulette document hosted by Loto-Québec lists La Partage for red/black, odd/even and low/high wagers. Page 8 says zero returns half the amount on those bets. A €20 red wager therefore returns €10 and loses €10. There is no remaining €10 portion of that wager waiting for the next spin. Loto-Québec's French Roulette rules
The eligible categories are the ones paying 1:1 on an ordinary win. "Even money" describes that payout, not a 50% chance of winning. The document excludes zero from red/black, odd/even and low/high selections. Zero has a special settlement here because the rule says so.
A dozen or column is also an outside bet, but it pays 2:1 in this game and does not qualify for that half return. Nor does the rule refund half of a losing straight-up bet on a different number. Our roulette odds explanation covers the ordinary payouts and the probability calculation; this article follows what happens to the stake after zero.
En Prison leaves the wager unresolved
Monte-Carlo Société des Bains de Mer's European Roulette leaflet offers two choices after zero on an even-money wager: divide the bet, or wait for the next spin, when a winning selection releases it. This held-stake procedure is the distinction meant by En Prison. The leaflet also allows a change of selection while the wager remains held. Those are Monaco terms, not instructions for the Québec game above. SBM's European Roulette leaflet
SBM's separate English Roulette leaflet describes release at the original value and says a held wager that loses on the next game is lost definitively. Recovering that original value produces no ordinary 1:1 profit. A fresh €20 winning red wager would return €40, including its stake; releasing a held €20 red wager returns €20. SBM's English Roulette leaflet
Keep the selection unchanged for this fictional comparison, and suppose the next result is not zero:
| Settlement of the original €20 wager | Cash returned | Net result against the €20 committed |
|---|---|---|
| La Partage after the first zero | €10 | €10 loss; wager settled |
| Held red wager released after red | €20 | €0 profit; original stake recovered |
| Held red wager loses after black | €0 | €20 loss |
The table compares separate possible histories. It does not combine the €10 refund with a later €20 release, and it assumes no new wager alongside the held one.
Another zero needs an explicit rule
The short Monaco leaflets cited here do not set out a complete repeated-zero procedure. They cannot establish whether another table retains, divides or loses a wager after a second zero. That condition must come from the applicable rules; it should not be filled in from the phrase "En Prison" alone.
The same limit applies to the end of a session. A description of release on a later spin does not, by itself, settle what happens when there is no later spin. Keep the original wager and its held status identifiable until the relevant procedure resolves them.
The wheel does not identify the settlement
The Québec document specifies La Partage. Monaco's leaflet describes a choice. Borrowing one game's procedure for the other would change the wager's terms. The cited PDFs were accessible when checked on 18 October 2026; that does not certify every currently offered table or software configuration.
For remote games within the British standard's scope, UKGC RTS 3A requires accessible rules before gambling, while 3B addresses information about the current state as a game progresses. It is a disclosure standard, not a rule requiring every roulette game to offer La Partage or En Prison. Gambling Commission: RTS 3
A useful settlement record distinguishes money already returned from money still held. The full game name and the rule displayed for that table matter more than the thumbnail; our report on different casino-game versions explains why the name alone can be insufficient.
