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New York Casino

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The reputation of New York Casino is unspoiled and the bonuses pretty good. The software runs fast and smooth, the graphics are very good and the interface is easy to understand. offers multi- and single player games, where the multi-play feature is available in fun money mode as well. Separate accounts are available for both real and play money.
 Supported languages

English
 Software

New York Casino was developed by PlayTech.
 Licence

It is not known whether this casino is licenced or not. To have a gaming license means that a casino is able to 1) deposit enough money yearly as a financial backup for players (approximately US $50,000 up to US $100,000 per annum), 2) pay the taxes (of about 2,5% up to 5%), and hence 3) is subject to the control of the government that issued the gaming licence in case of any disputes.
 Games

Baccarat [Mini]
Blackjack
Craps
Keno
Poker [Caribbean]
Poker [Pai Gow]
Red Dog
Roulette [European]
Sic Bo
Slots (31)
Video Poker
Video Poker (9)
War


 Baccarat (Mini)
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Mini Baccarat Review

Game: In Baccarat you and the banker receive two to three cards to get a point value as close to nine as possible. You have to correctly guess whether you or the banker will win, or a tie will occur.

Odds: In baccarat the best bet is on the banker (bet that the banker will win) and the fewer the decks used the better the banker bet gets. Since New York Casino uses six decks, the house edge on a banker bet is 1.06% (it would be 1.01% if played with one deck). Dealt and played using "standard" rules, if you win by betting on the banker, the bank receives a 5% commission (land-based casinos take 4%).
The six-deck house edge on a player bet is 1.24% (where the one deck house edge on a player bet is 1.29%). These differences in percentage do not seem large, but they do have a considerable impact on play in real life.
A winning bet on a tie pays 9:1 which really is wonderful since it lowers the casino's advantage from 14.44% (15.75% in 1-deck and 14.36% in 8-deck baccarat) down to 4.93%. Not many online casinos offer this generous payout on ties.

Set: The stakes (table limits) are set to $5-$200 which is standard. You might want to bet big when playing baccarat and you certainly will find online casinos offering higher maximum table limits.

Summary: New York Casino offers a very good baccarat game because of the good odds on ties (9:1). This is not the right place for high rollers though.



 Blackjack
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Blackjack Review

Game: In Blackjack each card has a point value. You first get two cards, calculate their value and decide whether to draw more cards or not where the maximum total points allowed is 21. The dealer does the same thing. You try to be better than him (draw closer to 21).

Odds: The house edge with the rules listed below is 0.47% which we consider lowest standard. Be aware of that you can find much better blackjack games online.

Set: You can play three hands at once which is lots of fun. The dealer stands on soft 17 (Ace & 6) which is good but standard. Doubling down is allowed on any first two cards and you even can double down after you split pairs which is better than what land based casinos offer you but standard when it comes to online casinos. You may split pairs to two hands only which really is below average, because many other online casinos allow you to split your cards up to three or four hands. Split Aces receive only one more card. When the dealer's face-up card is a ten he peaks under the face-down card to tell if he has a Blackjack or not. When the dealer's face-up card is an Ace he does not peak. If the dealer wins with a 10 showing you will lose only the original amount bet (not including any additional money from doubling or splitting). If the dealer wins with an Ace showing you will lose the full amount bet.

New York Casino uses six decks which is standard: it makes card counting quite impossible. And to dash any hope the cards are shuffled after every single hand. It is difficult to find an online casino making card counting easy anyway, but there are some and New York Casino certainly does not fall under this category.

Summary: There certainly are better blackjack games to play. You can find them in our Best Blackjack List.



 Craps
Playtech Craps

Craps Review

Game: In Craps two dice are thrown by a player. If he rolls a 7 or 11, he wins. If he throws a 2, 3, or 12, he loses. If he throws any other number (4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10) he continues throwing the dice and hopes that the same number will be thrown again before the 7 comes up. When the 7 comes up first, he loses. You can bet on the player or the house.

Odds: New York Casino offers 3x odds: if you bet $10 on the pass-line (bet, that the player will win), you can increase your original bet after the dice have been thrown by 3x the amount you bet. This is called "wagering behind". And to wager behind is what a good craps player will do and a criteria of a good craps game is how many odds the casino offers you to wager behind: as the amount of allowed odds increases, the house edge decreases considerably. The house edge is 0.85% / 0.68% (pass-line / don't-pass-line bet) when offering 1x odds - as many online casinos do, 0.61% / 4.5% when offering 2x odds - as some casinos do, and 0.47% / 0.34% already when offering 3x odds - as New York Casino does. (Land-based casinos sometimes offer up to 100x odds).

But New York Casino does not offer the 3x odds exactly the way land based casinos do: 3x usually means that you can wager behind 3x the amount you could win. So if you bet $10 you could win $20 and hence wager 3x $20 = $60 behind. Because New York Casino does not follow the real rules - as almost no online casino does - the basic house edge stays at 0.47% for pass-line-bets but grows to 0.45% for don't-pass-line-bets.

A good strategy for craps is to always wager behind.

Summary: New York Casino offers one of the best craps table with great odds and great betting limits. You'll find similar and better online craps tables in our Best Craps List.



 Keno
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Keno Review

Game: There are 80 numbered balls. You pick some numbers. 20 balls are drawn. You win of course as more of your picks match the numbers that were drawn.

Odds: There are two types of keno: a) paying you good already when you match only a few picks (therefore decreasing the payouts for matching many picks) and b) paying you good only when you match many picks (therefore decreasing the payouts for matching only a few picks). You have to decide where you prefer to play. I'd play only the a) type. New York Casino is the a) type casino. The average payout here is nearly 91%. This payout ratio is excellent since both land-based and online casinos generally pay back about 70% - 75% on average.

The best bet here is on pick 8 offering a return of 92.75%.

Summary: Overall, New York Casino offers excellent payout ratios.



 Poker (Caribbean)
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Caribbean Poker Review

Game: In Caribbean Poker you place an ante (bet before game starts) and after having received five cards decide whether to compete against the dealer or not. You simply compare cards. The better hand wins.

Odds: The basic house edge for this game is 5.21% which doesn't make it look competitive compared to other casino games. American Roulette has a slightly worse house edge though.
Anyway, New York Casino makes this game interesting because it offers you a side bet of $1 for which you will receive an additional payoff for certain paying hands (flush or better). This extra win is based on the value of your own five-card hand, not on the hand of the dealer. So even if the dealer beats you or does not qualify you still get the bonus payoff. Their jackpot usually is about $15,000 which results in a house edge of 55%. Only when the jackpot is very high ($200,000) the house edge decreases enough to really make this side bet worth a try. When you review the payoff chart keep in mind that some online casinos offer you a 999:1 payout for a Royal Flush.

The strategy for Caribbean Poker is quite simple: you should raise on any pair or better and fold on anything less than ace/king.

Summary: That's a standard Caribbean Poker game offering the option of a side bet. There certainly are online casinos with much better Caribbean Poker games though.

Caribbean Poker Payoffs
 

Hand Payoff Bonus Payoff
Royal Flush 100:1 100% of Jackpot
Straight Flush 50:1 10% of Jackpot
4 of a Kind 20:1 $500
Full House 7:1 $100
Flush 5:1 $50
Straight 4:1 4:1
3 of a Kind 3:1 3:1
2 pair 2:1 2:1
1 pair 1:1 1:1


 Poker (Pai Gow)
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Pai Gow Poker Review

Game: Pai Gow Poker is a card game based on poker where you and the dealer get seven cards and have to split them into five and two cards, each of them containing a better hand than the dealer's in order to win (your five card hand has to be better than your two card hand).

Odds: In Pai Gow Poker usually each player gets the chance to be the banker. Actually only a Pai Gow Poker game where the casino alternates the turn of the banker is good because in the event of an exact match between hands, called a "copy", the tie goes to the banker. It would set the house edge to 1.46%. (The probability that the two-card hands ("front hands") will copy is 2.55% and the probability that the five-card back hands ("back hands") will copy is 0.32%.) When it is your turn to be the banker the house has only an 0.08% edge over you. Because both the turn of the banker and the 0.08% edge alternate you end up with the aforesaid 1.46% house edge. At New York Casino the dealer is always the banker though which sets the basic house edge at 2.86%. Almost every online casino lets only the dealer be banker. So does New York Casino.

Set: Usually a progressive jackpot is paid out if any 5 cards of the 7 cards you are dealt make up a royal flush. New York Casino does not offer such a jackpot.
You are paid even money on all winning hands less a 5% commission (some casinos take a 2% commission only).
There is a house way button but if you click it your hand will immediately be scored, not giving you the option to accept or reject the house way.

Summary: A little worse than standard pai gow poker. Find an online casino that offers you the option of being banker.



 Red Dog
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Red Dog Review

Game: Red Dog is a simple game where two cards are chosen by the house. You may raise your bet if you think a third card will fit in between the first two. You are given certain payouts for certain spreads. The spread is the number of ranks between two given cards. For example, the spread between a five and an eight is two. The maximum spread is eleven.

Odds: In Red Dog the greater the number of decks the better the odds for the player. This is because of the greater probability of drawing a fitting card or a three of a kind, which pays 11:1. Since New York Casino uses one deck only - as most online casinos do, the house edge is 3.16% which makes New York Casino one of the worst places to play Red Dog at. There are online casinos offering red dog played with eight decks, cutting the house edge down to 2.75%.

Summary: This is one of the worst red dog games to find.



 Roulette (European)
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European Roulette Review

Game: A wheel with pockets numbered 0 to 36 is spun in one direction. A ball is spun around the wheel and as the ball slows, it drops into one of the pockets of the wheel. You bet on which pocket the ball will drop into.

Odds: This is an 'European' single-zero roulette (with only one zero on the wheel) which sets the basic house edge to 2.7%. That's actually far better than the American roulette version which usually has an incredible basic house edge of 5.26%. But New York Casino doesn't use any additional rule to put you in an even more favorable position, so the house edge stays at 2.7%.

If you prefer to bet on one of the inside bets once in a while, you really should play European roulette, since the house edge is 2.7% on all bets. But if you are an outside bettor, who likes to bet on high, low, red, black, odd or even only, you should play an American roulette version offering the "la partage rule" since it offers slightly better odds for those bets (2.63%).

Consider that inside bets offer far better payouts than outside bets, so bet the middle 12 once in a while. Generally the best idea is to bet on the streak that is running at the moment (e.g. if the last number was red, bet red).

Summary: That's a standard European roulette version. There are better roulette tables in our Best Roulette List. If you would like to bet big, go to Global-Player Casino. You can bet up to $6,000 on a spin there.



 Slots
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Slots Review

Game: Slots are machines with three to five wheels with symbols on them, spinning downwards when you pull a lever at their side or similar and coming to a stop after a few rounds of spinning. If the symbols align you win.

Odds: It is difficult to calculate the payout probabilities of slot machines without knowing how many times a certain symbol appears on each real. You could sit in front of the slot machine, pull the lever 1,000,000 times and write the results down or rely on the information that New York Casino gives you. Their slots payouts are audited by some known auditing firms and reported to be around 98% which is excellent since you probably will have a hard time finding an online casino with better slots payouts.

Set: You may play in units of 25 cents, $1, or $5.

Summary: New York Casino offers more than 40 slot machines which is incredibly much. Their payouts are certainly good. You'll some of them in our Best Slots List.



 Video Poker
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Video Poker Review

Game: In Video Poker you receive five cards and decide which ones to change (only once) in order to make a good poker hand. As better your hand as better the payout gets.

Odds: New York Casino features a set of 5 different video poker machines, all of them offering a very good payout of about 99%. In addition there is a 25 cent progressive "9/6" video poker game called Megajacks. If the meter passes $1230.30 the odds switch to the player's advantage.

Set: You may play in units of 25 cents, $1, or $5.

Summary: Overall, video poker and slots seem to be New York Casino's best games and even one of the best among all online and land-based casinos.

Video Poker Payoffs

Name Type Max.Payout Return
Jacks or Better 9/6 800 99.54%
Aces & Faces 40/25 4000 99.25%
Deuces Wild 4/3 800 98.91%
Joker Poker 7/5 1000 98.59%
Tens or Better 6/5 800 97.96%


 Video Poker
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Video Poker Review

Game: In Video Poker you receive five cards and decide which ones to change (only once) in order to make a good poker hand. As better your hand as better the payout gets.

Odds: New York Casino features a set of 5 different video poker machines, all of them offering a very good payout of about 99%. In addition there is a 25 cent progressive "9/6" video poker game called Megajacks. If the meter passes $1230.30 the odds switch to the player's advantage.

Set: You may play in units of 25 cents, $1, or $5.

Summary: Overall, video poker and slots seem to be New York Casino's best games and even one of the best among all online and land-based casinos.

Video Poker Payoffs

Name Type Max.Payout Return
Jacks or Better 9/6 800 99.54%
Aces & Faces 40/25 4000 99.25%
Deuces Wild 4/3 800 98.91%
Joker Poker 7/5 1000 98.59%
Tens or Better 6/5 800 97.96%


 War
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War Review

Game: Sometimes called "Battle Royale" or "Royal Rumble" war is a card game where each player and the dealer get one card. If your card is of a higher rank you win.

Odds: Again, if your card is of a higher rank you win. If the dealer's card is higher you lose. If it is a tie (same rank) you can surrender and lose your bet (you lose only half the bet when playing in land-based casinos) or go to war: you double your bet and play another game. If your second set of cards beats the dealer you win even money on the total wager (in land-based casinos you win even money on the raise only and get back your original wager). If the dealer's second card is greater you lose both bets. If there is a tie you lose (there are online casino offering you a 3:1 payout on ties after going to war which sets the basic house edge at 0.66%!). You can bet on a tie from the start as well, which pays 10:1 if the first two cards tie. The house edge on the tie bet is 18.65% though. The basic house edge depends on the number of decks used and lies between 2.42% (1 deck) and 2.9% (8 decks). New York Casino uses 6 decks setting the basic house edge at 2.88%.

You should always go to war to keep the house edge as low as possible.

Summary: Casino War at New York Casino is not good. Find an online casino offering a 3:1 on ties after going to war.