This is the one family where the numbers are published before you sit down. They are on the lobby card, they are specific to that table, and they decide how long a balance lasts more than anything else does.
8 cashiers describe live tables2 figures per card1 card per table0 house edges published
The shape of a live table's card in the lobby. The values drawn are there to show where the fields sit; the limits that count are the ones each table publishes, and they change from table to table inside the same cashier.
A live table in a lobby carries a card, and the card carries a minimum and a maximum. It is a small thing and it is the only place in this whole family of games where a figure is written down before a stake is placed. The minimum in particular decides how long a given balance lasts, and it varies by a factor of fifty between the quietest table in a lobby and the loudest. The most complete records in the register.
The values drawn in the figure above are the shape of the card rather than any house's table. The real ones are in the lobby, they differ from table to table inside the same cashier, and they change during the day as tables open and close.
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What is not on the card
And is not anywhere else either
The house edge. Fixed by the rules of the game rather than by the operator, and not printed on the card.
The contribution to a bonus requirement. Table games usually count for less than slots, and the figure sits in the bonus terms when it sits anywhere.
The number of seats. Which decides how long a round takes, and therefore how many rounds an hour holds.
The one number in this family that can be recounted from first principles is the roulette table itself: thirty-seven pockets, eighteen of them covered by an even-money bet. It is set out on its own page, because it is the only sum here nobody has to take on trust.
They are on each table's card in the lobby and differ from table to table inside the same cashier. No single figure describes a house.
Do live tables count towards a bonus?
Usually for less than slots, and the figure sits in the bonus terms rather than on the card. None of the records here publishes a contribution table this register could read.
Is a live table fairer than a slot?
It is more visible, which is not the same claim. The roulette wheel's arithmetic can be recounted by anyone; a slot's configuration has to be read in its panel.
