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What is Table Games?

Table games are casino games played on a layout with chips and a dealer, such as blackjack, roulette, baccarat and craps, each with a fixed house edge.

ByCasino Desk·Casino & Slots Editor

Reviewed byKris Fawkes·Chief Editor

What it means in practice

Table games are the casino games played on a purpose-built layout with chips and a dealer rather than on a machine. The main families are blackjack and other card games, roulette, baccarat, craps and casino versions of poker. Results come from a physical randomiser such as a shuffled shoe, a spinning wheel or thrown dice, while online they come from a random number generator or from a streamed live-dealer table. Every table posts a minimum and a maximum bet, and the house edge is fixed by the rules and by the payout ratios of each wager rather than by anything the dealer does. Table games settle more slowly than slots, so fewer bets are resolved per hour, though stakes are often larger. That edge applies to every bet placed.

Why it matters

A definition like this one decides what an offer is actually worth. The same wording turns up in bonus terms, on payment pages and in game rules, and it is usually where a promotion’s real cost is hiding — so it is worth reading an operator’s own terms with this meaning in mind rather than the marketing above them.

You must be of legal gambling age where you live — 18 in most markets, 19 or 21 in others. Understanding a term does not make an outcome more likely: casino games are built to return less than they take over time. Set deposit and time limits before you play.

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