If playing a $10 pass line with 3x odds and then playing, say, two Come bets with 3x odds, is too much for your budget to handle, you may want to consider finding a $5 table at a lower end establishment.īy minimizing the house edge using odds bets, you can significantly increase your chance of leaving the game a winner, particularly in the long term. You're still betting more, and having a much higher variance (large swings), but it's a better way to play than it would be to put $10 on the passline with no odds and spread your other $30 around on bets with house edges in the 1.5%-12%+ range (some bets are even in the low 20% house edge range like the feature bets (fire bets, repeater bets, and All Tall Small bets). On the strip you will be very hard pressed to find smaller then 15 minimum, for both roulette and bj, and those tables are usually in the middle of the night/weekdays. Ellis island is awesome and highly recommended, also usually 5-10 limits. By placing 3x odds on that bet, the casino holds a $0.375% house advantage on your $40 total bet. Yes either 3 minimum or 5 minimum for the video machines. For example, if you bet a $10 passline bet with 0 odds, the casino holds a roughly 1.5% house advantage. The odds hold a 0 house edge, thus allowing you to dilute the rest of your house edge.
