A casino simulator is the cheapest way to find out what a night at the tables really costs. Bring $200 to a slot machine at 96% RTP and spin $1 at a time, and the average loss is around $24 an hour: your money lasts about eight hours on average, though any one night can go much quicker or much better. The same $200 at a blackjack table with basic strategy and $5 hands loses under $2 an hour on average. The free calculator above compares every game this way, and the simulators below let you play them out with play money.
Casino simulator: the games
- Slot simulator: spin thousands of times on a machine with the RTP and volatility you choose.
- Roulette simulator: a full table plus a strategy tester for Martingale, Fibonacci and the rest.
- Blackjack simulator: perfect basic strategy, your rules, flat betting or a counting spread.
- Craps simulator: pass line with odds, place bets, the field, iron cross and more.
- Baccarat simulator: banker, player and tie over as many shoes as you like.
- Video poker simulator: Jacks or Better, with an exact best-hold check.
- Plinko simulator: drop balls and watch the distribution form.
What the numbers mean
The hourly figure is house edge × bet × bets per hour. Speed is the part people forget. Slots run at 500 to 700 spins an hour, so even a modest edge turns into a real cost. Blackjack at a full table is closer to 70 hands an hour. That’s why a low-edge game at a slow table can be dramatically cheaper than a “better odds” game played fast.
None of the simulators can make a negative-edge game profitable, whatever the system. What they do show well is the range: how often a session ends ahead, how deep the dips get, and why a lucky night doesn’t mean the maths has changed.
For a fixed budget, the session budget calculator sets a stop-loss and a time limit.
A gambling simulator with no real money
Everything here plays with pretend money, so it’s a gambling simulator in the most literal sense: you can lose a fortune and nothing leaves your account. That makes it a good place to see what the house edge does before it costs you. Run 1,000 spins of a 96% slot at £1 and the average result is a £40 loss, but one run can finish well up and the next more than £150 down.
Use it to try a staking plan, test how long a budget lasts, or show someone why “it’s due” doesn’t work. Then check the same numbers with real stakes in the expected loss calculator.
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