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Casino games guides

Most casino games are priced against you. These pages unpack rules and odds for the titles this site does not run, so you can read a felt or a lobby before you stake.

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Casino games: lobby taxonomy and how to read RTP

Casino games in an online lobby are not one product. Table tiles, live-dealer streams, instant RNG originals and slots all price risk differently. RTP is the long-run share of stakes paid back; house edge is 100% minus that number. Read the paytable or rule sheet, not the thumbnail. PVPspinArena does not offer a casino lobby — only Jackpot, Coinflip, Roulette, P2P Slott, and six-max poker — so this page is a map for games you meet elsewhere.

Lobbies and live

Live dealer casino: studios, pace and the same house edges

How a live dealer casino table works: studio streams, the same house edges as the felt, latency, limits, and why a camera is not a PvP pot.

Crypto Casino Games: What They Are and How They Pay

A plain guide to crypto casino games: house-banked tables, peer-to-peer pots, and how to compare rules, odds, and settlement.

Table games

How to play baccarat: banker, player, tie and the real edges

How to play baccarat: player, banker and tie rules, the third-card tableau, and why banker is about 1.06% while tie is a much fatter price.

Baccarat squeeze: the reveal ritual and the edge that stays

What the baccarat squeeze is, who gets to peel the cards, why the slow reveal feels like control, and why the 1.06% banker edge stays the same either way.

Craps odds: pass line versus proposition bets on the same cubes

Craps odds on the pass line versus propositions: the 36-pair table, 1.41% line edge, and why any-seven is a 16.67% price on the same cubes.

Casino holdem: the house game versus a raked poker pot

Casino holdem versus raked poker: ante and call, dealer qualifying, typical 2% edges, and why a house paytable is not a poker pot.

Ultimate texas holdem: ante, blind, and the play bets

Ultimate Texas Hold'em is a house-banked poker variant. See the ante, the blind, the play bets, and why the paytable on the felt wins.

Mississippi stud: ante, streets, and the paytable

Mississippi Stud is five-card stud against a paytable, not against other players. See the ante, the three streets, and why the felt pays what it prints.

Let it ride poker: three equal bets, and two you can pull back

Let It Ride poker deals you three cards and two community cards. See the three equal bets, which ones you may pull back, and the paytable.

Crazy 4 poker: five cards dealt, four cards played

Crazy 4 Poker rules: five cards dealt, best four played, how the ante and play bet work, why Queens Up is a side bet, and how the super bonus pays.

Hi lo card game: Acey-Deucey, in-between and casino higher-lower

Hi lo card game explained: Acey-Deucey / in-between versus casino higher-lower, how the spread sets the price, and typical house-edge shapes.

Online Craps: How a Digital Table Differs From a Pit

Online craps replaces dice in your hand with a button grid on a screen. This guide covers that table difference and sends the odds math to a separate page.

Craps strategy: pass and come with odds, skip the props

Craps strategy that holds up: pass or come with free odds, place 6 and 8, why props cost 9–17%, worked bankroll maths and the systems that change nothing.

Baccarat strategy: bet Banker, skip the Tie, ignore the roads

Baccarat strategy that the maths supports: why Banker is best even after commission, why Tie costs 14%, what roadmaps really show and how to size a bankroll.

French roulette: la partage, en prison and the call bets

French roulette explained: the single-zero wheel, la partage and en prison halving the even-money edge to 1.35%, the French layout names and every call bet.

Roulette calculator: the arithmetic, worked by hand

A roulette calculator you can finish on paper: 1/37 and 2.70% single-zero, 1/38 and 5.26% double-zero, then a 33-slot wheel near 7.88%.

Craps table layout: pass, don't pass, odds, come, and field

A craps table layout maps pass, don't pass, odds, come, field, and place bets. Payoffs are quoted from rules we opened. Edge percents are our arithmetic.

Sic bo strategy: which bets are least bad and how to size them

Sic bo strategy by the numbers: Big and Small at 2.78%, why triples and doubles cost 14–33%, how to check any paytable, and a bankroll plan that fits.

Dragon Tiger: rules, the tie bet, suited tie and house edge

Dragon Tiger rules and odds: one card each, higher wins, why ties cost half your bet, the 32.77% tie at 8 to 1, the suited tie and every side bet edge.

Teen patti: rules, hand rankings, blind and seen play, and odds

Teen patti explained: dealing and boot, blind and seen betting, show and sideshow, the six hand rankings, and the exact odds of every three-card hand.

Pai gow tiles: the Chinese domino game, tile rankings and setting hands

Pai gow tiles explained: the 32 Chinese dominoes, civil and military tiles, pair rankings, Wong and Gong, scoring, setting four tiles into two hands, and odds.

Andar bahar: the joker, the alternating deal, and an edge the pages skip

Andar bahar deals a joker, then Andar and Bahar in turn. The studio pages print no house edge. A side-bet ceiling is not a promise of a win.

Fan tan: buttons under a dome, counted by fours, from the Macau text

Fan tan in the 2004 Macau text is a button pile counted by fours. Fan pays three times the stake, then 5 percent of the prize. Remainder odds are not printed.

Mini baccarat: a smaller table, a dealer reveal, and the commission line

Mini baccarat is a nine-seat table the dealer reveals. Maryland prints a 5 percent banker cut, with exceptions. A stake floor is not on those sheets.

Blackjack table rental: a reserved shoe, a printed minimum, and no hourly price

Blackjack table rental is a reserved pit table. Luxor's high-limit page prints a $100 blackjack minimum and no hourly price. The shoe is still a house game.

James bond roulette strategy: the 20-unit layout, and the edge it leaves in place

The 20-unit James Bond layout is 14 on 19-36, 5 on 13-18, and 1 on 0. Wizard of Odds still prints a 2.70% single-zero edge. No win is promised.

Draw and specialty

Keno odds: spot counts, 80-ball draws and the real keep

Keno odds on an 80-ball, 20-draw card: how spot counts set hit chances, why paytables often keep 20% or more, and how to read one ticket.

Keno vs bingo: draw, pace, edge and cost

Keno vs bingo: both draw numbers, but the ticket, the pace, and the house edge are different products. See which cost you are actually paying.

Wheel game casino: money-wheel segments and the posted pay

How a wheel game casino prices money-wheel and Wheel of Fortune-style segments: count the pegs, read the posted multiples, compute the keep.

Dice duel: two-cube rules, ties and the house take

How a dice duel works: two totals compared, what ties do to the price, and why a “higher roll wins” button is not a fair 50/50.

Tower game gambling: ladder rungs, crash maths and cash-out

Tower game gambling explained: crash-like ladders, per-rung survival, short-paid multipliers, and how cashing out does not create an edge.

Pachinko odds: parlour machines versus online clones

Pachinko odds without invented parlour RTP: how Japanese halls differ from online clones, and how to price a digital board you can actually count.

Double or nothing gambling: streak products and the real cost

Double or nothing gambling as a streak product: each 2x-or-bust step, how a small edge compounds, and why a planned stop is the only lever.

Pai gow poker: two hands, and a tie that belongs to the banker

Pai gow poker deals seven cards into a five-card hand and a two-card hand. You must beat both. Ties go to the banker. Copy the commission from the table.

Casino war: the first card is almost even, and the tie is the price

Casino war is one card against the dealer. A higher card wins even money. On a tie you surrender half or double and go to war. Decks change the price.

Sic bo online: three dice, 216 outcomes, and a paytable that is local

Sic bo online is three dice and one roll. Big and Small lose on triples. On published 1 to 1 tables their edge is 2.78%. Other boxes cost more.

Video keno: the grid a rule requires, and the paytable it leaves blank

Video keno on the South Dakota rule and the Montana device file: grid, spots, and draw size. No casino catch paytable was opened. The screen can still lose.

Deal or no deal live: 16 briefcases, four offers, and a blank return

Deal or No Deal Live uses 16 briefcases, a qualifying wheel, and four banker offers. The studio page prints no return percent and no single max win.