Tradition Casino: payment inaccuracies and rule discrepancies
Thursday, April 22, 2010
Tradition Casino: payment inaccuracies and rule discrepancies
Tradition Casino, powered by Rival software, was proved to be short-paying on blackjacks, with even money payoffs as opposed to the usual 1.5 to 1 (3 to 2) - see Casinomeister Tradition Casino thread:
An additional, though less serious, discrepancy was the inability to double down after splitting pairs, within a game whose rules included the DAS option:
The casino claimed that payouts were changed in error during a period of new staff training, suggesting that the casino itself, as opposed to the software supplier, can change such fundamental standards on a whim.
Paying blackjacks at even-money adds approximately 2.4% to the house edge, depending on the number of decks in play. Loss of the double after split option adds around 0.14%.
So, in total an average 0.5% house edge for perfect play blackjack would increase five-fold in these circumstances to 3%, with the payout reduced from 99.5% to 97%.
It's not clear to me exactly what happened here that resulted in the short-paying blackjack and the double after split discrepancy. The reason given about employee training isn't especially credible.
My directory page has a list of Rival casinos which is not fully comprehensive, but which should give you an idea of most of the other casinos which may share this ability to alter crucial game payments and reconfigure the rules.
My recommendation is to avoid Rival casinos.
2 Previous Comments
These spots are so tricky.
Does one avoid them like they are going out of fashion?
Or pile in as if it's a fire sale?
I'm bonus-banned so - of course - I'm speaking purely in the abstract...but one does wonder...
Rogue + Stupidity = Standard. Avoid.
Rogue no Stupidity = Run!
No Rogue no Stupidity = ugh. 32Red blech professionalism.
***No Rogue +++ Stupidity = ??***
By 
Jonny Vincent, at
4:16 pm
It's probably not a bad habit to get into were you to make a point of attributing screenshots correctly to their owner/s. I'm really just nit-picking though. Of course I don't really mind.
It seems the answer to my musing above was "avoid like they are going out of fashion". I'm hearing reports Rival is all-but-donkdown.
By Jonny Vincent, at
6:23 pm