Street and corner bets
Street and corner bets are roulette inside bets: a street covers three numbers in one horizontal row of the layout and pays 11 to 1, while a corner covers four numbers meeting at a single point and pays 8 to 1. On the standard grid a street might be 7, 8 and 9, and a corner might be 17, 18, 20 and 21. Both sit between the single-number bet and the wider outside bets, trading some payout for a better chance of a hit.
How the payouts are calculated
Each standard roulette payout follows the same rule: divide 36 by the numbers covered and subtract one. Three numbers gives 11 to 1, and four numbers gives 8 to 1.
That price would be fair on a wheel of 36 pockets, but a European wheel has 37 because of the zero. A street therefore wins 3 times in 37 on average, roughly 8.1% of spins, and a corner 4 times in 37, about 10.8%. The gap between those chances and the payout leaves the same 2.70% house edge found on every standard bet at that table, rising to 5.26% on an American double-zero wheel.
A worked example helps: a €10 corner that lands returns €80 in winnings plus the €10 stake, but over thousands of spins the expected cost is still about 27 cent per €10 bet.
Where readers mix them up
The street is often confused with the six line, or double street, which covers two adjacent rows and pays 5 to 1. The chip sits on the outer edge for a street and on the shared outer corner of two rows for a six line, so a misplaced chip changes the bet.
Zero-based versions cause the rest of the confusion.
On single-zero tables, some operators offer a trio such as 0, 1 and 2 at street odds, and a first-four bet on 0 to 3 at corner odds; naming and availability vary between providers, so the game’s own rules page is what we read first. On American wheels the five-number top line pays 6 to 1 and carries a 7.89% edge, which makes it worse value than any street or corner.
