The Essential Bets Needed for Playing Sic Bo

Sic Bo is one of those games that’s been around for a long time, but it’s been catching on a lot in online games over the past year. This could have a lot to do with classic casino games seeing a resurgence because craps and other traditional table games have been getting a lot more play over the past 12-18 months. Much like craps, if you’re going to play Sic Bo, then you need to know the bets to stick with and the bets to stay away from. It can either have a house advantage similar to European roulette on the low end, or a house edge that’s worse than keno on the high end if you don’t know what you’re doing.

Sic Bo is all about rolling three dice. The small bet wins if you have a total of four to ten, and the big bet wins if you have a total of 11 to 17. Note both of these bets loses on three of a kind. Both bets pay 1:1, both bets have a house advantage of 2.78 percent, and both bets are among the best options you have in the entire game. In fact, you’d be best off only playing with these two bets the vast majority of the time just to stay safe.

To give you an example of how bad the payouts can be, suppose you have a 30:1 payout on a bet that wins on any three of a kind. This seems like a fairly decent payout for rolling triples until you realize it means the house advantage is a whooping 13.89 percent. Other bets aren’t looking much better. A bet on a specific set of two numbers (like rolling both a five and a six out of the three dice) will pay 5:1 and have a 16.67 percent house edge.

Sic Bo is a game that’s filled with what most people would consider are trap bets. The payouts can vary from game to game, but it’s rare that you’ll find bets other than the small and big that have a house advantage of less than five percent. That’s why it’s so critical that you stick to these bets when you play this game. It can be a really fun game to play because the three dice gives the game a lot of action, but when the house edge is so high, it’s really hard to win.