Online Casino Sucker Wagers — Part 1

by Heaven on November 24th, 2009

[ English ]
  • Proposition wagers in Craps: These Craps bets means you are wagering that a specific feature may arise on the next roll. For instance, you might make the ‘hard ways’ wager, which indicates that you’re betting that the tosser will roll a four, six, eight, or ten by tossing a double. These wagers offer a house edge of anywhere from 9.1-11.1%. This is a huge casino edge, and it’s awfully rare that they hit.
  • Tie wager in Baccarat: This is a bet that no one, the dealer or the player will win, but that both hands will tie. This is an extremely rare situation in web baccarat chemin de fer, therefore the house advantage is high. At 14.1% casino advantage, this is the very definition of a sucker bet.
  • Insurance in Blackjack: Although black jack has one of the smallest house advantages (and there is also a lot of skill involved), this is a sucker wager. Depending on how many decks of cards are being played and the rules of the table, the casino edge of this is at least five percent, but can be as great as fourteen %. Only extremely experienced card counters can make this bet function for them, and more often than not then it remains a sucker bet.

Leave a Reply

You must be logged in to post a comment.