Read this before you play.

1.How to read this

• Pays is the total you get back for each $1 bet, including your stake. "Pays 2×" on a $100 bet means you get $200 back, which is a $100 profit.
• Return is the average share of all money bet that comes back to players over a very large number of plays. A 95% return means the house keeps about $5 of every $100 bet on average. Any single session can go much better or much worse.
• Casino results are decided on our server with a cryptographically secure random number generator. Each spin, hand, and draw is independent: past results don't change the next one, and nothing "is due."
• Bet limits are shown at each table and may change.

2.Slots

Three reels, each with 64 stops, spin independently, so there are 262,144 equally likely results. Minimum bet $1, maximum bet $5,000. Lines are checked top to bottom, and you're paid for the first one that matches.

The two progressive jackpots are paused. While they're paused, those lines pay the fixed amounts shown above.

3.Roulette: The Wheel Open

• American wheel: 38 pockets (1 to 36, 0 and 00). The 0 and 00 lose every outside bet.
• Up to 20 bets on one spin. The pocket is drawn on the server when you spin.
• Pays are the total you get back, your chip included: a straight-up win at 35 to 1 returns 36x your bet.
• The 0-00-1-2-3 line is not offered (it returns less than every other bet).

Bet limits depend on the room you're in and are shown at the table.

4.Blackjack

• One 52-card deck, shuffled fresh before every hand.
• Dealer stands on all 17s. The dealer doesn't check for blackjack before you play.
• Blackjack (21 on your first two cards) pays 3 to 2, rounded down to the whole dollar. Other wins pay 1 to 1. Ties push (bet returned).
• Blackjack beats a dealer 21 made with three or more cards. If you both have blackjack, it's a push. A dealer blackjack beats any other hand, including your 21 made with three or more cards.
• You can double down on your first two cards and get exactly one more card. No splitting, insurance, or surrender.
• Each hand holds at most five cards. The dealer stops at five cards, even under 17.

Return to player: about 99.5% if you play basic strategy well, and about 94% if you just hit until 17.

5.Video Poker: Wiseguys or Better Open

• Five cards from one 52-card deck, shuffled fresh every hand.
• Hold any of them and draw once. Replacements come off that same deck.
• You're paid on your final hand. Pays are the total you get back, your bet included.
• The return is for perfect play. Most players hold imperfectly and get back a few percent less.

A hand left alone for 10 minutes stands pat and is paid as dealt.

6.Lottery

• Each ticket is 5 different numbers from 1 to 20. A ticket wins only if all 5 match the draw, in any order.
• The game draws the 5 numbers at random every 7 days, on the nightly run. Nobody picks them.
• Chance per ticket: 1 in 15,504 per draw (0.0065%).
• The pot is exactly what players paid for the tickets in play. The house takes no cut. Winning tickets split the pot equally, rounded down to the dollar.
• If no ticket wins, every ticket stays in play for the next draw, and so does the whole pot. Tickets keep playing until the pot is won.

7.Horse Racing

• Open to players level 30 and up. Each ticket costs $300,000 and 50 points.
• Chance per ticket: 1 in 100, whichever horse you pick. There are ten horses on the card, but the odds are not 1 in 10.
• A winning ticket pays $3,000,000 and 400 points.
• Return: about 10% of the cash and 8% of the points you put in. This is a long shot by design.

8.Poker and Tic-Tac-Toe

Poker Closed for now The poker tables are closed while the game is rebuilt. If you still hold chips, the cashier buys them back at the $5 each they cost.

Tic-Tac-Toe is free play. There are no bets on games between players.

9.Closed games

• Bingo Closed for now 75-ball bingo. Any full row, column, or diagonal wins the whole pot, and if two cards finish on the same ball, the card bought first wins. Full odds will be posted here before it reopens.
• Back-Alley Slots Closed for now Not offered while its payouts are reviewed.

10.Other chance in the game

Some things outside the casino also come down to luck, usually mixed with your stats. They're part of the game, not bets.

• Jail busts, escapes, and revives show their exact chance before you try. The jail shows your bust odds next to each inmate and your escape odds on the escape button. The hospital shows your revive odds next to each patient. The number is a straight percentage: 63% means 63 tries in 100 succeed. It's worked out when the page loads, and the game uses the current number when you click, so it can shift if something changes in between, like a sentence running down or another player's failed bust putting the guards on alert. The "How it works" box on each page covers the rest, such as how often a failed bust gets you caught and how much a missed escape adds to your sentence. Bail always works if you can pay.
• Crimes, fights, and muggings mix your stats with a random roll. Their exact numbers aren't published.
• City Dump searches give you one random item from whatever other players have thrown away, or nothing if it's empty.

No item in the game is a paid loot box.

11.Play it smart

Every casino game you bet on keeps a share of what's bet over time, except the lottery and the games between players, so the longer you play, the more likely you are to end up behind. Bet what you can afford to lose in the game. If gambling of any kind, in a game or in real life, stops being fun, the National Problem Gambling Helpline is free and confidential at 1-800-GAMBLER.