• Progressive side bets: Games like Caribbean Stud Poker regularly offer one of these. You generally lay a wager ($1 is the normal amt.) to try to win a bonus jackpot that could reach $25,000. Though huge jackpots like this are very tempting, they’re also very hard to succeed. You would need to hit a Royal Flush in order to succeed on this bet. Also, imagine this- you wager 20 hands and lay the side wager each time. That is $20 you could have used towards the real game bet in place of a sucker bet. Picture what you might have been able to win at a bet with more favorable odds using that $20.
  • Individual number wagers in Roulette: This is completely true for American Roulette. The reason? American Roulette has two 0’s on the wheel, as opposed to European Roulette, which has only one. This shifts the complete casino edge from 2.63% with a single zero wheel to a huge fivepercent in American. The individual number bet has only a 1 in thirty eight chance of succeeding, which are very big odds indeed. Bet on even-odd or black-red bets as a substitute which have a much lower house advantage.
  • Keno: Any variation of Keno, and regardless of how you bet on it, the house advantage can be a whopping 25%. Yes, that is not a typo. Because of the huge set of numbers you have to choose, it’s not recommended to wager on Keno to often. A number of times for fun, maybe. But don’t spend all your money on it or you will immediately find yourself broke.