Some multi-bet online casino games can disappoint

As part of our regular features in which we attempt to provide new online casino games players with some casino tips to help them improve their chances of winning, we often try to increase awareness of the statistical odds associated with certain casino games. Whilst sports gambling fans are always well aware of the odds being offered by their bookmakers, gamblers playing casino games at an online casino, or indeed a real casino, often ignore this elementary principle of successful gambling particularly when playing apparently easy casino games. Blackjack is a prime example of an easy casino game to play, but one in which knowledge of the odds of a particular card being drawn can determine how successful you are. We have of course dealt with these odds in previous articles at onlinecasino.ie, so this time let’s take a look at the casino game of roulette. Roulette is the casino game which on the face of it offers the biggest potential return of any casino game, with a 35/1 win pay out on a single number, but how many roulette players actually confine their betting to gambling on a single number. Any visit to a real casino will tell you that roulette is a casino game in which most players place multiple bets on each spin, and there is no reason to suppose that this is any different when gamblers are playing at an online casino. The question is just how many these roulette players actually know what their odds of winning actually are when they have placed a series of multiple bets. Take one of the simplest small multiple betting patterns, a bet on a row paying 11/1 and an even money bet on say Black/Red as a hedge. Let’s then assume that the most unlikely of the two bets actually comes up, even if the even money bet also wins the pay out is now only 6/1 and if it loses the winnings are down to 11/2. We should also remember that if just the even money bet wins, we have actually won nothing. If you enjoy maths and statistics, you can have great fun calculating potential winnings from any number of potential multiple betting patterns, but the bottom line is that the pepper- pot style multiple betting which is often seen can lead to disappointment even when the wheel is in your favour.