• Progressive side wagers: Casino games such as Caribbean Stud Poker regularly contain one of these. You generally place a wager (a dollar is the normal value) to try to win a bonus jackpot that can be upwards of $25,000. Although huge jackpots like these are very tempting, they’re also very hard to win. You might have to hit a Royal Flush in order to hit this wager. Also, picture this- you wager twenty hands and lay the side wager each time. That is twenty dollars you could have used towards the actual game wager instead of a sucker bet. Imagine what you might have been able to win at a bet with better odds employing that twenty dollars.
  • Individual number wagers in Roulette: This is especially true for American Roulette. Why? American Roulette has two zeroes on the wheel, as opposed to European Roulette, which has only 1. This takes the overall house advantage from twopercent with one zero wheel to a whopping 5percent in American. The single number wager has only a one in 38 chance of succeeding, which are very long odds indeed. Bet on even-odd or black-red bets instead which have a much smaller house advantage.
  • Keno: Any variation of Keno, and anyway you wager on it, the casino advantage can be a whopping twenty-five percent. Yes, that is not a typo. Due to the large set of numbers you must choose, it isn’t recommended to gamble on Keno very much. A number of times for enjoyment, maybe. But do not spend all your money on it or you will quickly discover yourself broke.