{"id":4868,"date":"2013-12-14T12:48:11","date_gmt":"2013-12-14T19:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/vitalvegas\/?p=4868"},"modified":"2013-12-14T12:52:35","modified_gmt":"2013-12-14T19:52:35","slug":"far-away-worst-game-casino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/vitalvegas\/far-away-worst-game-casino\/","title":{"rendered":"Far and Away the Worst Game in a Casino"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>Casino games vary greatly in their &ldquo;house edge,&rdquo; also known as the &ldquo;house advantage.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The &ldquo;house edge&rdquo; is how casinos make their money. Well, that, and all the loose change guests throw into fountains for good luck. But mostly the house edge thing.<\/p>\n<p>Some casino games have a &ldquo;reasonable&rdquo; house edge, such as baccarat (1.2%), craps (some bets are 1.4% or lower) blackjack (2% or lower) or Pai Gow poker (2.5%). Roulette takes a bigger chunk (5.3%).<\/p>\n<p>The house edge starts to get truly painful with the Big Six wheel, informally called the &ldquo;Wheel of Fortune.&rdquo; The odds on that big wheel range from 11% to 24%.<\/p>\n<p>Here&rsquo;s a handy list of house advantages for popular casino games from the UNLV Center for Gaming Research.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4869\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4869\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/vitalvegas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/house_advantages.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload size-full wp-image-4869 \" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" alt=\"House advantages of casino games\" src=\"\/vitalvegas\/dist\/images\/common\/transparent_3x2.gif\" width=\"500\" height=\"750\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/vitalvegas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/house_advantages.jpg\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4869\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yeah, we hate math, too, but we hate throwing our money away more.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Learn more than you&rsquo;ll ever need to know about casino math at the <a href=\"http:\/\/gaming.unlv.edu\/casinomath.html\" target=\"_blank\">UNLV Center for Gaming Research site<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So, now that we have a better idea of the house edge landscape, what&rsquo;s the worst game in any Las Vegas casino? Keno!<\/p>\n<p>While keno can be a fun diversion, you have to go in knowing the house edge is a butt-reaming 27%. Yes, &ldquo;butt-reaming&rdquo; is the technical term.<\/p>\n<p>That means for every $100 bet, you can expect to lose a hefty $27.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4870\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4870\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/vitalvegas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/keno_bad_bet.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload size-full wp-image-4870 \" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" alt=\"keno\" src=\"\/vitalvegas\/dist\/images\/common\/transparent_3x2.gif\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/vitalvegas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/keno_bad_bet.jpg\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4870\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Remember, you can&rsquo;t spell &ldquo;keno&rdquo; without &ldquo;NO!&rdquo;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Even the worst bet in craps, the Big Red 7 bet, has a lower house edge than keno (16.7%).<\/p>\n<p>What does this mean to you? Possibly nothing. What does it mean to us? Also, generally, nothing. When we&rsquo;re in a casino cafe and have a hankering to swing for the fences, we&rsquo;ll drop a few bucks on keno. Why? Well, it&rsquo;s a little philosophy we like to call &ldquo;house edge, schmouse-smedge.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Translated, that means &ldquo;we&rsquo;re here to have a good time, not do math.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>When Lady Luck smiles, she smiles, and it doesn&rsquo;t matter which game you&rsquo;re playing. So, play on, have fun, but just know what you&rsquo;re getting into!<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Casino games vary greatly in their &ldquo;house edge,&rdquo; also known as the &ldquo;house advantage.&rdquo; The &ldquo;house edge&rdquo; is how casinos make their money. Well, that, and all the loose change guests throw into fountains for good luck. But mostly the house edge thing. Some casino games have a &ldquo;reasonable&rdquo; house edge, such as baccarat (1.2%), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,23,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gambling","category-vegas","category-las-vegas-casinos"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Far and Away the Worst Game in a Casino | Vital Vegas<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"What&#039;s the worst game in a casino?\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Far and Away the Worst Game 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