Online Casino Games Odds – How Are They Made Fair?
Any game that a casino offers has been designed to give the advantage to the host (i.e. the online casino). As such, in the long-run a casino is always going to win from a game played. However, players can beat the odds in the short-term and as such win more than they bet. The fact that any game is designed with odds in favour of the house is demonstrated best with Roulette. A single chip placed on a number bet pays 35-1 (i.e. a $1 winning bet returns $36). However, a roulette wheel has 36 numbers as well as a zero (and possibly double zero). As such, the true odds of a number spinning in is 36-1 or 37-1. As such, if a player covered every number (at a cost of $38 on a double-zero table) they would only get back $36. For card games such as Blackjack, Red Dog, Three-Card Poker or Stud Poker the odds of the game are set by the rules of the game in a similar way to roulette. However, with some games such as Blackjack the actual odds a player experiences is dependent on their play (i.e. ch
