Hi Leonidas,
I like the idea of being able to spread your $5 over the inside of the table.
That to me sounds like a fair deal, here in Star City Sydney your minimum bet is $5 per number, so let's say you wanted to take 20 straight up, 17/20 split, 16,17,19,20,corner & 16-21 avenue that would cost you $20.00 as the table chips are $5. value chips which makes it pretty hard to harvest table chips at $5/chip as 20 of them would be $100.00.
It just does not seem very fair when as you say in America the table roulette chips are $1.each.
I bet your glad you live in America.
Take Care Leo
Best Wishes
Brian from OZ