| Real Time Gaming
supplies fast, easy to operate and to understand software.
In most cases, the casinos are large on bonuses, and it’s
easy to operate fast play and speedy needed play is easy
to reach. Though in most cases Real Time Gaming casinos are
great, some doubtful casino nonetheless crop up. A generous
bonus operator, Casino Merlin, crashed at the start of 2002,
and it seems that the accounts of player disappeared into
thin air. This means that you have to be careful when you
come to choosing casinos at RTG. There’s some bother
in the fact that you have to supply by fax copies of credit
and driver license when you come to make withdrawals of five
hundred dollars and up. The table game limits are between
five to five hundred dollars, and the coin dominations for
video poker and slots are five cents to five dollars.
Two versions of software, which are flash and download,
are offered by Real Time Gaming. Although it appears that
the rules for Flash are the same, the downloaded casino solely
is reviewed as follows.
Baccarat
This game uses six decks of cards and for a tie has a payoff
of nine to one. 1.06 percent is the house edge on a banker
bet, and 1.24 percent on a player bet; the house bet is 4.93
percent on a tie bet. As the banker wager is rounded down
to the nearest quarter constantly put a bet in small amounts
of five dollars on the banker. Keep in mind that there’s
a banker’s commission fee of five percent.
Blackjack
At the level of default the rules are as follows:
- Number of decks used in game can be configured
- The dealer hits on soft seventeen
- You can double on first two cards
- Doubling permitted after splitting
- To three hands splitting twice allowed
- Player loses first bet only if dealer has blackjack
Real Time Gaming claims that two decks is the default number.
Despite this it seems that most casino using this software
endeavor to use more decks. Occasionally the same card has
been displayed approximately three times on the screen. The
same card, at other time, has been displayed on the screen
twice and when playing with two decks this seems more than
expected. Unfortunately, this fact has not been noticed by
the rules and it’s an important factor. On assuming
that four decks are used then the house edge is 0.58 percent.
For more information on checking the number of used decks
see blackjack appendix 13.
For the basic strategy used by Real Time Gaming casinos
view the chart. You can see in the chart that it’s
founded on at least four decks, which most casinos are assumed
to have adopted. Except for this, it’s safer, rather
than the opposite, to use this strategy in games using two
decks. Watch your hand across the straight left edge and
across the top of the up card of the dealer in order to use
this basic strategy. In both cases an ace is signified by
the A. You have hard totals with hands of soft totals and
that can be split running from top to bot tom.
Caribbean Poker
Caribbean Poker is the same game as Caribbean Stud Poker.
You are not allowed to make any side bet and the pay table
and the rules are applied according to the standard framework.
Caribbean 21
Caribbean 21 features a house edge of 0.19 percent. For
any more information on rules and strategy view the Caribbean
21 section.
Craps
Apparently full double odds are the default. From other
casinos you can obtain more. You can place a wager almost
twice and a half time the line wager on the don’t side
on points six and eight, and twice the line bets on all the
others. On each winning lay and buy wager and based on the
winning amount, a commission fee of four percent is charged.
On offered place bets a number of exceptional payoffs are
awarded: two to five on the four and ten; three to five on
the five and nine; and only nine to twenty on the six and
eight. In the following list the house edge on these wagers
is displayed. The game offers several useful buttons for
clearing repeat bets and standard bets. Hot boxes are provided
for assisting in placing the wagers in the right place. Rounding
down to the nearest quarter is ruled for winning bets.
- Combined pass: come and by odds: 0.57 percent
- Combined don’t pass: lay and don’t come
odds: 0.56 percent
- Place to win on four, ten: 6.67 percent
- Place to win on five, nine: 4.00 percent
- Place to win on six, eight: 1.52 percent
- Place to win on four, ten: 6.67 percent
- Place to lose on five, nine: 5.9 percent
- Place to lose on six, eight (gee!): 20.91 percent
- Buy on four, ten: 2.67 percent
- Buy on five, nine: 2.40 percent
- Buy on six, eight: 2.18 percent
- Lay on four, ten: 1.33 percent
- Lay on five, nine: 1.60 percent
- Lay on six, eight: 1.82 percent
Face Up 21
Face Up 21 is the same game as Double Exposure. Standard
rules are applied here except for the following rulings:
- Eight decks are used
- The dealer hits on soft seventeen
- Allowed to double only on hard nine and eleven
- Allowed to double after splitting
- Up to three hands splitting allowed
- Tied blackjacks win
- If suited triple sevens against dealer, seven pays forty
to one
Stanford Wong and BJ Edge software state that the house
edge is 0.85 percent if these rules are adhered to.
Keno
Using a button with ten spot quick pick Keno provided lots
of fun and runs well. You can see the chart for returns based
on the number of selected spots.
Let ‘Em Ride
Let ‘Em Ride is the same game as Let it Ride. Pay
table and standard rules are applied. A one dollar progressive
side bet is available to participants. The side bet pays
fifty dollars for a flush, seventy dollars for a full house,
one hundred dollars for four of a kind, pays ten percent
of the meter for a straight flush, and pays one hundred percent
of the meter for a royal flush. $1724.51 was the sum the
meter clocked the last time it was inspected and the house
edge reached 76.46 percent! The meter would have to clock
$263,205 for the house edge to be a zero.
Match Play 21
Match Play 21 is the same game as Spanish 21. You are not
allowed to redouble and the dealer must hit on soft seventeen.
The game follows the standard rules except for these two
rulings. As with other RTG blackjack games the house edge
is 0.76 percent, assuming that six decks are in use, although
the number of decks is not really known.
Pai Gow Poker
The dealer always acts as banker, and the house edge is
2.86 percent.
Pontoon
This game features a house edge of 0.26 percent. For checking
all the rules and strategies see the selected section on
Pontoon.
Red Dog
Red Dog is played by the standard rules. The house edge
is 3.08 percent and two decks of cards are used.
Roulette
Both the European and American kind of wheels are provided.
Two zeros are used on the American type and one zero on the
European wheel. If the ball lands on a zero, on even money
wagers, neither wheel returns half back. A button is available
for placing the last bet one more time.
Slots
The operator is able to select his or her own return on
the slot machine.
Spanish 21
Spanish 21 follows its own rules according to the following:
- The game uses eight decks
- The dealer hits on soft seventeen
- With a suited triple sevens against the dealer seven
pays forty to one
The house edge is 0.81 percent when these rules are followed.
Check the chart at the Spanish 21 section for viewing the
suitable strategic plans.
Super 21
Except that eight decks of card are used rather than one
pack, the rules used here are the same as those used in Super
Fun 21. Making a rough guess, for an eight deck game the
house edge is 1.2 percent.
Tri-Card Poker
Tri-Card Poker is the same as the game Three Card Poker
maintaining quite a less generous pay table. The Pairplus
payoff at most casinos has been diminished from forty to
one to thirty five to one for a straight flush, and diminished
from thirty to one to twenty five to one for the three of
a kind. Similarly, the house edge was increased from 2.32
percent to 4.58 percent. On the straight flush in Ante and
Play the bonus was raised from five to one to three to one,
and for three of a kind from four to one to two to one, and
thus the house edge rose from 3.37 percent to 4.28 percent.
At Grand Banks casino a gradual improvement is in sight.
In Pairplus, a straight flush at forty to one results in
a house edge of 3.49 percent. With a house edge at 3.83 percent,
on a straight flush in Ante and Play there is a payout of
four to one. Except for this the rules for Real Time Gaming
casino games are the same as the others.
Video Poker
Real Time Gaming offers a vast selection of video poker
games. The pay tables are configurable as each casino has
a different pay table. For this reason RTG has stopped listing
video poker games. See the video poker section for checking
most of the pay table returns. If you find a RTG casino paying
for a full house seven for a coin and for sequential royal
a fifty thousand jackpot for a coins bet in Joker Poker,
then your return will be 100.18 percent. However, they no
longer keep this default.
War
One deck is used and the standard rules are adhered to.
The house edge is 2.42 percent, although this is lower than
the 2.88 percentage house edge for six decks of cards.
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