The house edge there goes to 6-7% from just over 1% in a normal game. It has also been reported that baccarat payouts are substantially worse on some of these Casino Wizard machines. Players expect the game to payout like the live version. It is 9.3% for 5 and 9 and 9% for 6 and 8.Ĭasino Wizard machines call this game craps. Even worse, odds always return 100% at a real craps game. The pass line house edge is 1.4% on a normal craps game. Closest thing to outright fraud I have ever seen in a casino. These payouts raise the house edge by ~10x. There are no other indicators that the game isn’t paid out like normal craps. The bad payouts are disclosed deep in the help files, and not anywhere on the game A warning about “Casino Wizard” machines. However, it appears we missed at least one that does not.Įarlier this week, a player discovered a Casino Wizard machine that short pays at craps. These matched the corresponding live table games. This includes new Casino Wizard machines. We covered electronic table games for the first time in five years in our Las Vegas Table Game Survey. Casino Wizard electronic table game short pays

This is becoming a problem in Las Vegas that I feel requires attention.

A machine that uses the name as a live table game should play exactly like that game or be called something different. We are unable to determine the payout on this electronic table game.

It is a slot machine that mimics sic-bo with multipliers and random jackpots that are not found in the live version of the game. The answer is that the game is not actually sic-bo.

Kristina and I spent hours trying to determine why a sic-bo machine at Venetian has 13 bets that don’t return at least 75% to players as required by gaming regulations.

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