Casino gambling is all about risk. Nevertheless, you need to know the difference between calculable risks and blowing money on high-risk games. The games mentioned below should be marked with a large stop and forbidden sign, supplemented by the warning: This game is dangerous for your wallet! With the astronomically high house edge and the complete lack of strategic aspects, we can only warn against these games. Of course, you can try them all out of sheer curiosity at TonyBet. But please don’t expect to win any money. Therefore: Hands off!
Wheel of fortune: Once you’ve lost a few banknotes there, you should realize that this fairground attraction only offers lousy chances of winning. The large, vertical wheel has 54 fields on which six different bets are possible. There are also two additional fields with a joker and the casino symbol. Bets are placed on the betting fields of a table. The croupier spins the wheel. At some point, it comes to a standstill due to the braking effect of a pointer, and the pointer marks the winning symbol. If you have bet on the symbol, you win.
Any questions about strategy?
You don’t need a damn strategy, you don’t need experience, and you don’t need to learn any rules. Just pray – er, want to say bid – before spinning the wheel.
The house edge starts at 11% and ends at 24% for the rarer symbols. No wonder no one ever plays there. In Austria, there were wheels of fortune in some casinos years ago, gathering dust. Whether they were ever spun is not known.
Red Dog: This game is rapidly disappearing worldwide. In Las Vegas, there are fewer than a dozen tables; in Austria, there is still a blackjack-shaped Red Dog table here and there in the casinos. Even there, no money accumulates, but rather dust. In this card game, you bet on whether a third card will match the value of two cards that are already face up. First, an ante is due. The strategy is to increase the ante bet as soon as the distance between the two cards is equal to or greater than 7 (example: the first two cards are 2 and 9, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 fit in). This reduces the house advantage to just under 4%. The best strategy is to leave the table to the left.
Sic Bo: This old Chinese dice game requires no strategy and has a high house edge. It is played on a table that offers more than 50 different betting options. The odds range from 1:1 to 180:1, and you bet on the result of the roll of three dice.
The best bet is to bet on big or small, where the house edge is the lowest (2.78%) and winnings are paid out 1:1; all other odds are paid out increasingly worse, but the house edge increases. Sic Bo tables can be found in some Austrian casinos. The Spielbank Berlin once afforded itself the luxury of purchasing one of the technically sophisticated tables. The guests never took to the game.
Spanish 21: Spanish 21 is a confusing game. It looks like blackjack, smells like blackjack, plays like blackjack – but is not blackjack. The big difference is that all the tens (but not the face cards) have been removed from the six-card deck. You play with 288 cards instead of 312, which reduces the chance of hitting a blackjack or 20 points.