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  • Proposition wagers in Craps: These Craps wagers indicates you’re wagering that a particular feature will arise on the next roll. For instance, you might make the ‘hard ways’ wager, which means that you are betting that the tosser will toss a four, six, eight, or ten by rolling a double. These wagers have a casino advantage of anywhere from nine to eleven%. This is a massive casino advantage, and it’s incredibly rare that they hit.
  • Tie bet in Baccarat: This is a bet that no one, the croupier nor the player will come away with a win, but that the hands will tie. This is an extremely abnormal occurrence in net punto banco, therefore the house edge is high. At fourteen% casino advantage, this is the quintisential definition of a sucker bet.
  • Insurance wager in Black Jack: Although chemin de fer has one of the lowest house advantages (and there is also a tonne of ability required), this is a sucker wager. Depending on how many decks are being employed and the rules of the table, the house edge of this is at least 5%, but can be as great as 14%. Only very accomplished card counters are able to make this bet function for them, and even then it remains a sucker wager.