SatoshiBet Review

Casino Games at SatoshiBet

Whichever way you look at it, the games here suffer from 2 issues. Firstly there are only 9 of them in total. Second, the games themselves are extremely basic – looking like something the first home computers of the 1980’s could have generated.

There are two plusses to balance this. The games are entertaining, in a retro and quirky way – and they are all provably fair. This means that the strings of characters which generate the deal and the ‘cut’ of the deck can be combined and verified after each game – showing you that the deal was truly random.

Here are the games:

American Roulette: This ugly number does not have an actual wheel on display, just a strip of numbers at the top of the screen in the same order as the slots on a wheel. You click to bet, with corner and split bets possible in addition to numbers, and the outside bets. This wheel contains two zero slots, and should be avoided in place of the next game – European Roulette – since this makes the house edge considerably higher.

European Roulette: This is the same game as the American Roulette, with just the single green zero.

Blackjack: With an expected player return of 99.63% this is an extremely low edge game. Most of the money made will be due to player mistakes against the best strategy. The game is US rules, which means there is a ‘peek’ for Blackjack if the dealer shows an ace or ten. The game is slow and plain looking – though perfectly playable.

Video Poker: This game is Jacks or Better, with the smallest pay-out being for 2 Jacks. You’ll find a very simple layout, with the pay-outs clearly on show along the top. It is not clear that you click on the cards themselves to hold them after the initial deal. A small house edge game when played correctly.

Lucky 7’s: This is a traditional 3 reel slot game, which does include a jackpot pay-out (currently 367 mBTC). The return to player is 99.6%, which is excellent for a slot. You can win 500x your spin from the normal pay-outs, and scoop the jackpot too. This is one of only a small number of provably fair slots online.

War: This simple card game sees the highest card win – and only gets interesting if you tie with the dealer for the initial card. When this happens you can surrender, or go to war – with the option to win much more.

Baccarat: Another simple rendition of a classic casino game. Here you bet on Player, Banker or Tie and the computer handles the complex 3rd card drawing rules. I advise against the tie bet, which has a house edge of almost 15%.

Dice: I am not sure that ‘Dice’ is quite the right name for this game, which could be changed to ‘guess the randomly generated number’. You choose whether the outcome will be higher or lower than 50 by default, or adjust the percentages to suit your risk tolerance. This is a popular game which many players use to test betting systems and strategies.

Minesweeper: Pick a square and hope that you do not land on TNT, in this strange game you make your way across a grid of different proportions. If you miss the explosion, then you get a footprint. Pay-outs based on how much risk you take (minus a small house edge).

These games have a certain charm; however they are hardly the kind of titles which will see people coming back to SatoshiBet for more very often.