• Progressive side bets: Casino games like Caribbean Stud Poker often offer one of these. You normally lay a bet (a dollar is the usual value) to try to win a side jackpot that can reach $25,000. Although huge jackpots like these are extremely appealing, they are also incredibly difficult to win. You would have to get a Royal Flush in order to hit this bet. Also, picture this- you play twenty hands and lay the side wager each time. That is $20 you could have used towards the actual game wager in place of a sucker bet. Just think about what you might have been able to win at a wager with better odds employing that $20.
  • Individual number bets in Roulette: This is completely true for American Roulette. Why? American Roulette has 2 0’s on the wheel, unlike European Roulette, which has only 1. This shifts the complete casino edge from twopercent with a single zero wheel to a whopping 5percent in American. The one number bet has only a one in 38 chance of succeeding, which are very long odds indeed. Bet on even-odd or black-red bets alternately which have a much lower house edge.
  • Keno: Any variation of Keno, and anyway you bet on it, the house edge can be a whopping twenty-five percent. Yes, that wasn’t a typo. Because of the large set of numbers you have to choose, it’s not recommended to play Keno very much. A few times for fun, perhaps. But do not waste all your cash on it or you will immediately discover yourself bankrupt.