The tables
The table games, read as a price list for an hour of play
Every table game publishes its own price through its rules, and the spread between the cheapest and the dearest bet in a casino is wider than most players imagine. This page sets the figures out in order, with the arithmetic that produces each one.
Tables with the rules written down?
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A floor where the prices are printed
The prices are printed. The table games of a casino are the only part of it that publishes what it charges, and the publication is not in a document or a disclosure (nobody writes it down for you): it is in the rules themselves, which determine the edge exactly and leave the operator no room at all to adjust it. A wheel with thirty-seven pockets paying thirty-five to one costs what the division says it costs (two point seven per cent), at every casino in the world.
That makes the floor readable as a price list, and reading it that way is the most useful thing a reader can do with half an hour; ours took rather longer. The spread between the cheapest and the dearest bet is not a few tenths of a per cent: it is a factor of twelve, between a "partage" roulette table and a single-roll proposition at craps, and the two sit a few paces apart on the same floor, sometimes on the same screen, which is why a reader who has not read this page will pay whichever price the lobby puts in front of him.
The figures below are not measurements of ours and not the result of play (nobody here has staked a dollar at one of these tables). They are the published results of computations on the "drawing rules" and payouts, which is why we can offer them at all, and you can reproduce any of them with a sheet of paper and ten minutes. We have not sat at these tables, and nothing on this page depends on our having done so.
We have put them in the order of what they cost, because that is the order a lobby never uses!
- Yes — read at the source and working as described
- Partly — it exists, with a condition that matters
- No — it does not exist, or the rules forbid it
- Not verified — we looked and could not establish it, and we say so
The cheap end, where the arithmetic is kindest
Roulette under the French rules ("la partage", which halves an even-money loss when the ball lands in zero) sits at one point three five per cent on red, black, odd, even, high and low. It is the lowest price in the building (a third of the cost of an American wheel), and the only thing you have to do to obtain it is look for the word in the table name (French, or sometimes Monte Carlo).
The banker bet at baccarat follows at one point oh six per cent (a figure worth memorising), a figure that already has the five per cent "commission" on a winning banker bet inside it, which is why it looks lower than a reader expects. The player bet is one point two four; the asymmetry between the two comes entirely out of the "drawing rules", which give the banker a small advantage that the commission is designed to claw back.
Blackjack belongs here too (and its reputation for cheapness is earned only conditionally), with a qualification that the game's reputation tends to swallow. A well-dealt eight-deck table, played with the "strategy chart", sits a little under half a percentage point, which is the cheapest number on the floor; the same table paying six to five on a "natural" instead of three to two sits near two per cent (four times the price), and the two look identical from across the room.
European roulette at two point seven per cent is the honest middle of the floor, and it is the figure a reader should treat as his baseline (the price of an ordinary evening): anything cheaper is worth seeking out, anything much dearer is being bought for reasons other than value.
The expensive end, and why it is expensive
Now the other end. The American roulette wheel at five point two six per cent is the first step up, and it earns its place by adding a single pocket (the thirty-eighth) (the "double zero") while leaving every payout unchanged. It is the clearest demonstration in a casino that a price can be doubled without altering the appearance of the product at all.
The "carnival games" come next, in a band between two and five per cent: three card poker, Caribbean stud, casino war and their relatives (the "carnival games", in the trade). They are built around a hand of cards and a decision, which makes them feel like games of judgement, and the edge is set by the "paytable" rather than by the judgement.
The single-roll bets at craps are the end of the range, and they are worth setting out because the arithmetic is so short. "Any seven" pays four to one on an outcome that arrives one time in six, where a fair payout would be five to one (six ways in thirty-six is one in six), so the house keeps one sixth of one unit per roll, which is sixteen point six seven per cent. The "pass line" on the same felt costs one point four one per cent, which is to say a twelfth as much.
Two players standing at that table for an hour, one on the pass line and one on "any seven", are paying twelve times as much as each other for the identical dice, thrown by the identical hand. We know of no other purchase in ordinary life where the price varies that much without the product changing at all!
What the live floor does to these numbers
Nothing at all. That is worth saying, because most readers expect the live version of a game to be dearer than the machine. A live dealer table is the same game as its machine version in everything that touches the edge, which surprises most readers: the same rules, the same payouts, the same division. What changes is the "table limit", which is set for the economics of a "studio" (a "croupier", a set, a camera crew) and sits well above the minimum of the machine.
So a reader with a small "balance" faces a real choice rather than an obvious one. The machine version of baccarat costs him the same one point oh six per cent and lets him play for an hour on fifty dollars; the live version costs the same and may take the fifty in fifteen minutes, because the minimum stake is five dollars rather than fifty cents (a factor of ten).
The currency of the account is the other thing that moves the real price, and on this site it is the thing we return to, because an edge of one point oh six per cent on a baccarat banker bet is dwarfed by an exchange spread of two and a half per cent each way, which is to say that the cheapest bet in the casino can be made expensive by the account it is settled through.
That is the argument for reading our four boxes before reading our prose, and it applies to every figure on this page.
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What we could not establish
We could not read the table lists, the variants or the minimum stakes of the Games Global brands from outside Canada, because those sites answer a foreign request with an HTTP "403". The figures above do not depend on that reading, because they come out of the rules of the games rather than out of any operator's lobby.
What does depend on it is everything particular: whether a given casino offers a French roulette table at all, what its baccarat minimum is, whether its blackjack pays three to two. Those fields are marked "not verified" on our cards where our files hold nothing, and we would rather leave a gap a reader can fill than publish a range we inferred.
The price list, though, is yours to keep, and it outlasts every operator on this page. It does not change when an operator changes its software, it does not expire, and it is the same list in a studio in Latvia as on a floor in Las Vegas.
Questions readers ask
Which table game is the cheapest to play?
Start at the cheap end. Roulette under the French rules, at one point three five per cent on the even-money bets, and after it the banker bet at baccarat at one point oh six on its own terms. Both are cheaper than any slot a reader will meet, and both are legible in advance, which the slot is not.
Why is the tie at baccarat so expensive?
Because the payout of eight to one is set well below the true odds of the outcome, which arrive at roughly nine and a half to one after the drawing rules have had their say. The gap between what a bet pays and what it should pay is where every house edge in a casino lives.
Does the "any seven" bet at craps really cost sixteen per cent?
It does, and the sum is short enough to do in a sentence: a seven arrives on six of the thirty-six ways two dice can fall, which is one in six, and the bet pays four to one where five to one would be fair, so the house keeps one sixth of the shortfall on every roll.
Are the carnival games worth playing?
At the prices they charge, not if a reader is choosing on cost: three card poker, Caribbean stud and the rest sit between two and five per cent, several times the price of the main games on the same floor. They are bought for the shape of the game rather than for value, and that is a legitimate purchase made knowingly.
By the Canadian Dollar Casinos editorial team · Last updated October 2026 · Online since 2012
