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Real Time Gaming software is fast, clear, and easy to use. The casinos themselves are generally good bonus givers, and with the fast play it is easy to get through the required play quickly. Most Real Time Gaming casinos are okay but there are some questionable one. One very generous bonus giver, Casino Merlin, went down in early 2002 and player accounts are likely lost. So choose which RTG casino to play carefully. One inconvenience is that you have to fax in a copy of your credit card and id for a withdrawal of $500 or more. Table game limits are $5 to $500, slots and video poker take coinages from 5 cents to $5. There are two versions of Real Time Gaming software: download and Flash. The following review covers the download casino only, although the rules are the same in Flash as far as I know.
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Key to Table
The house edge depends on the configurable rules as follows.
Yes, this is the same as Caribbean Stud Poker. The name change is fooling nobody. Real Time Gaming follows the usual U.S. pay table except a royal flush pays 200 instead of 100. This lowers the house edge from 5.22% to 5.21%. The following table shows the probability and return for each event.
| Real Time Gaming Caribbean Stud Poker | |||||
| Event | Raise Pays | Total win | Combinations | Probability | Return |
| Player wins with royal flush | 200 to 1 | 401 | 16759740 | 0.000001 | 0.000337 |
| Player wins with straight flush | 50 to 1 | 101 | 156929720 | 0.000008 | 0.000795 |
| Player wins with four of a kind | 20 to 1 | 41 | 2832435800 | 0.000142 | 0.005826 |
| Player wins with full house | 7 to 1 | 15 | 16624475280 | 0.000834 | 0.01251 |
| Player wins with flush | 5 to 1 | 11 | 21856990280 | 0.001097 | 0.012062 |
| Player wins with straight | 4 to 1 | 9 | 43805516100 | 0.002198 | 0.019779 |
| Player wins with three of a kind | 3 to 1 | 7 | 234242908320 | 0.011751 | 0.08226 |
| Player wins with two pair | 2 to 1 | 5 | 488012139360 | 0.024482 | 0.122412 |
| Player wins with pair or less | 1 to 1 | 3 | 2343248003808 | 0.117555 | 0.352665 |
| Dealer doesn't qualify | 1 | 4532514033720 | 0.227385 | 0.227385 | |
| Push | 0 | 321623100 | 0.000016 | 0 | |
| Fold | -1 | 9523005974460 | 0.477745 | -0.477745 | |
| Dealer wins | -3 | 2726592727512 | 0.136786 | -0.410359 | |
| Total | 19933230517200 | 1 | -0.052075 | ||
For more information about Caribbean Stud Poker please visit my Caribbean Stud Poker section.
Caribbean 21 features a house edge of 0.19%. For all the rules and strategy visit my separate section on Caribbean 21.
Bodog no longer offers Caribbean 21. I don't know if this is true of all RTG casinos.
This is the same thing as Casino Hold'em. I don't know what every RTG casino is doing but can say that the Bodog Casino uses the most liberal 100/20/10/3/2 pay table, at a house edge of 2.16%.
In lieu of the AA+ side bet there is a progressive side bet on the five flop cards. The rules are the same as the side bet in Caribbean Stud Poker. The Bodog Casino uses a $75/$100/$500 pay table, which has a break-even point of $201,245.
Full double odds seems to be the default. Some casinos offer more. On the don't side the player can bet 2.4 times the line bet on points of 6 and 8 and 2 times on all others. The 12 on the field can either pay double or triple. (Bodog Casino pays triple.) A 4% commission is charged on all winning buy and lay bets, based on the amount won. They also offer place bets to lose with some unconventional pay offs, 2 to 5 on the 4 and 10, 3 to 5 on the 5 and 9, and only 9 to 20 on the 6 and 8. The following list shows the house edge on these bets. The game has convenient buttons to clear bets and repeat bets. Hot boxes help to place your bet in the right place.
Warning: Winnings are rounded down to the nearest quarter. For this reason when taking the odds you should bet in increments of $5 on the 6 and 8 and $1 on all other numbers. When laying odds do so in crements of $1 on the 4 and 10, and $3 on all other numbers.This is the same thing as Double Exposure. The usual rules are followed with these specifics:
According to Stanford Wong's 'BJ Edge' software the house edge under these rules is 0.85%.
Different pay table are a available, according to the choice of the casino opperator.
This is another name for Let it Ride. The usual rules and pay table are used. A $1 progressive side bet is available. The side bet pays $50 for a flush, $75 for a full house, $100 for a four of a kind, 10% of the meter for a straight flush, and 100% of the meter for a royal flush. When I checked the meter was only at $1724.51, which results in a house edge of 76.46%! The meter would need to reach $263,205 for this side bet to have no house edge.
This is Spanish 21 under an assumed name. In this game the dealer hits a soft 17 and redoubling is not allowed. Otherwise the usual rules are followed. As usual with RTG blackjack based games I don't know the number or decks (Grrrr!) but assuming six the house edge is 0.76%.
The dealer is always the banker, resulting in a house edge of about 2.86%.
Warning: Winnings are rounded down to the nearest quarter. For this reason you should be in increments of $5.Pontoon features a house edge of 0.38%. For all the rules and strategy visit my separate section on Pontoon.
The usual rules are followed. Two decks are used, which results in a house edge of 3.08%.
A European and American wheel are available. The European wheel has one zero and the American has two. Neither offers half back on even money bets if the ball lands in zero. A button is available to repeat the last bets made.
The operator may select their own return on the slot machines.
Standard Spanish 21 rules are followed with these specifics:
The house edge is about 0.81% under these rules. For the correct strategy visit my section on Spanish 21.
The follows the rules for Super Fun 21, except uses 8 decks instead of 1. At this time I do not know the house edge under an 8-deck game but my rough guess is 1.2%.
This is the same game as Three Card Poker, and the name change is fooling nobody. The casino operator can choose from various pay tables on the Pairplus and Ante bonus, and most of them choose stingy ones. However the Bodog Casino, has the most liberal "full pay" game. See my section on Three Card Poker for more information.
Vegas Three Card Rummy is a game exclusively played at Real Time Gaming casinos, as far as I know. The game is similar to Three Card Poker, but hands are scored much differently, and the odds are better. For all the details visit my section on Vegas Three Card Rummy.
Real Time Gaming has lots of video poker games to choose from. The paytables are configurable, so they vary from one casino to another. There are so many video poker games to choose from I list them in separately in my listing of Real Time Gaming video poker. However this does not contain every available pay table. If you don't find the pay table for your own RTG casino then please try my general general video poker section.
Some RTG casinos have a double up feature. If this is the case there is unfortunately no way to turn it off you in never want to double.
Standard rules are used with one deck of cards. The house edge with one deck is 2.42% (less than the 2.88% with six decks).
See my casino index for a list of sites that use Real Time Gaming software. You can also visit Realtime Gaming's website.
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