Sports betting · Casino Games
House edge math, bet selection, and the strategy patterns that survive long-run play across blackjack, roulette, baccarat, poker, craps, and sic bo.
26 guides · pillar + 25 clusters · ~99 min total
The pillar guide
How house edge works, which casino games cost you least, and the bankroll discipline that separates a session that lasts from one that doesn't.
The correct play for every hand against every dealer card, the rules the chart assumes, and what deviating from it actually costs.
Every common blackjack rule variation and its house-edge cost as a table: 6:5 payouts, H17, doubling restrictions, deck counts. How to read a table before sitting.
Live dealer and RNG blackjack compared: speed, cost per hour, limits, fairness models and which format fits which player.
House edge on every common blackjack side bet — Perfect Pairs, 21+3, insurance, Lucky Ladies — with the math, against the 0.5% main game.
Card counting does not work online: RNG reshuffles every hand and live tables cut half the shoe away. The math of why, and what it means for online play.
How to size blackjack bets against your bankroll: unit math, realistic losing-streak probabilities, session structure and what staking systems can't do.
European, American and French roulette compared: 2.7% vs 5.26% vs 1.35% house edge, where the difference comes from, and how to find the right table online.
Every roulette bet with its payout, true odds and house edge in one chart — plus the proof that every bet on the same wheel costs the same.
Martingale, Fibonacci, D'Alembert and Labouchère against the math: what each system actually does to your bankroll, with streak probabilities shown.
How Lightning Roulette and multiplier variants actually price: trimmed base payouts fund the multipliers. The math, plus standard live roulette guidance.
Banker, Player and Tie compared with full derivations: why Banker wins after commission, the no-commission catch, and side bets priced.
Live baccarat formats compared — standard, squeeze, speed and no-commission tables — what the squeeze actually is, and how to pick a table.
Why baccarat pattern-tracking predicts nothing, what the roads actually show, and the bankroll math that actually manages the game.
The craps odds bet pays true odds — zero house edge. The derivation, the combined-edge table, don't-pass laying, and why casinos cap it.
Every craps bet outside the line, priced: field, place, hardways, any seven and the props — edges from 1.52% to 16.67% in one table.
RNG craps, live-dealer craps and the formats between them: pace, minimums, etiquette-free learning and where the math stays identical.
How crash games compute their curve, where the published edge sits, what auto-cashout does and does not change, and the bust-streak math.
Crypto dice explained: the slider, the payout formula, the published edge and a worked verification example — the simplest game to check end to end.
How plinko actually prices: the binomial distribution behind the pegboard, what rows and risk settings change, and reading a paytable honestly.
How mines prices every pick: the combinatorics, the cashout ladder, what mine count changes, and the one discipline that matters.
How to read a video poker paytable: why 9/6 Jacks or Better returns 99.54%, what 8/5 costs you, and the paytable check that takes ten seconds.
Video poker strategy honestly framed: the simplified hold rules, what they cost versus perfect play, and why the paytable still matters more.
Why big/small at 2.78% is sic bo's whole game, what combination and total bets actually cost, and honest session framing for a no-decision game.
The 80/20 draw fixes every keno probability, from 1 in 4 on a single spot to 1 in 8,911,711 on a full 10-spot ticket. What varies between operators is the paytable — and that alone sets the house edge.
Banker wins 45.86% of hands in an eight-deck baccarat game, player 44.62%, tie 9.52%. Here is the house edge those probabilities produce, how each figure is derived, and which table rules change it.
