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The tables you will find in the Indian casino section of most panels. Tap one to read its rules.
How a Round Works on a Live Table
Every Indian casino table on the panel runs on the same cycle. Once you know the cycle, a new game is only a matter of learning its bet types.
- The countdown. A timer appears on screen, usually somewhere between a few seconds and half a minute. This is the bet window. You choose an outcome, pick a chip or type a stake, and confirm.
- The window closes. When the timer reaches zero, no more bets are accepted. A bet you tapped a fraction of a second too late is simply not placed. It will not appear in your open bets, and nothing is taken from your balance.
- The deal. The dealer draws the cards on camera, or on a virtual table the software reveals them. Results are shown on screen with the winning outcome highlighted.
- Settlement. Winning bets are paid into your balance within a few seconds, and losing stakes are kept. The round is recorded in your account statement with its round ID.
- History. Most tables show the last few results as a strip of coloured dots or letters. It is there for interest only. Past cards have no effect on the next round on a shuffled shoe, a point we come back to below.
A practical tip: every table has a rules button, often a small "i" or a book icon. It lists the exact payouts for that table. Payouts for the same game can differ slightly between tables, so check the one you are actually sitting at, not one you played last week.
Live tables and virtual tables
Live tables stream a real dealer dealing physical cards from a shoe. Virtual tables, sometimes labelled "virtual" or shown with animated cards, use a random number generator instead. Virtual rounds run faster because there is no dealer to wait for. That sounds like a feature, but more rounds per hour means more money staked per hour, and so a bigger expected loss per hour at the same stake. If you play virtual tables, lower your stake to match the faster pace.
Teen Patti: One-Day and 20-20
Casino Teen Patti keeps the hand rankings of the home game but removes the betting rounds, bluffing and showing. Two hands are dealt, usually labelled Player A and Player B, three cards each. You bet on which hand will be stronger. You are not playing either hand. You are betting on the result, like backing a team.
Hand rankings, strongest first
| Hand | What it is | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Trail (trio) | Three cards of the same rank | 7♠ 7♥ 7♦ |
| Pure sequence | Three consecutive cards of one suit | 4♣ 5♣ 6♣ |
| Sequence (run) | Three consecutive cards, mixed suits | 9♦ 10♠ J♥ |
| Colour (flush) | Three cards of one suit, not in sequence | 2♥ 8♥ K♥ |
| Pair | Two cards of the same rank | Q♠ Q♦ 5♣ |
| High card | None of the above; highest card decides | A♣ 9♦ 4♠ |
When both hands have the same type, the higher cards win. Two pairs are compared by the pair first, then the odd card. How sequences involving the ace rank (A-2-3 and A-K-Q) varies a little between versions, so it is one of the details worth reading in the table rules.
20-20 Teen Patti
The fast version. All six cards are dealt in one go after the bet window closes, and the round is over in seconds. You back Player A or Player B. Because the two hands are dealt the same way, each side wins about half the time, and the payout is set slightly below even money (or a small commission is taken) to give the house its edge.
One-Day Teen Patti
A slower version where the cards are revealed one at a time and the betting stays open between cards, often with back and lay prices like an exchange market. As each card appears the prices move, just as a match odds price moves after each ball. This lets you change your position mid-round, but it also lets you make more decisions, and more chances to chase, in a single hand. Treat it the way you would treat in-play cricket: decide your maximum stake before the first card.
Side bets
Many Teen Patti tables also offer side bets. The most common is a "pair plus" style bet that pays if a chosen hand contains a pair or better, with bigger payouts for flushes, sequences and trails. Side bets pay more because they lose more often, and their house edge is usually higher than the main A-or-B bet. The exact pay table is on the table's rules screen.
Andar Bahar
The simplest of the Indian games to follow, and one of the oldest. A single card is turned face up in the middle. It is called the joker, or the game card. The dealer then deals cards one at a time, alternating between two piles: Andar (inside) and Bahar (outside). The round ends as soon as a card of the same rank as the joker appears. The pile it lands on wins.
Suits do not matter, only rank. If the joker is the 9♦, the first 9 of any suit to appear decides the round.
Why the two sides pay differently
One side always receives the first card, which gives it a small head start. Over many rounds, the side that is dealt first wins slightly more often. To balance this, tables pay that side a little less than the other, or pay it at a reduced rate only when the very first card matches. The exact arrangement varies from table to table and is shown in the rules. It is the main thing to check before you play a new Andar Bahar table.
Side bets
Some tables add bets on how many cards will be dealt before the match (for example 1–5, 6–10, 11–15 and so on), or on the suit or colour of the matching card. The ranges with fewer cards pay less because they are more likely. These are fun, but as always the bigger the payout, the more the house tends to keep.
Dragon Tiger
Two cards, one dealt to Dragon and one to Tiger. The higher card wins, and suits do not count. Aces are the lowest card and kings the highest. A round takes seconds, which is why Dragon Tiger is one of the fastest ways to win or lose money on the panel.
- Dragon or Tiger: pays even money if your side has the higher card.
- Tie: both cards have the same rank. It pays a large multiple, commonly 8 to 1 or 11 to 1, depending on the table.
- Suited tie: same rank and same suit. Offered on some tables at a much bigger payout because it is rare.
- Side bets: big or small, odd or even, red or black for each side's card. On most tables a 7 counts as neither big nor small, so those bets lose when a 7 is dealt.
The detail many players miss: on most tables, when the round is a tie, Dragon and Tiger bets lose half their stake. A tie is not a push. This is where most of the house edge on the main bets comes from, as the worked example below shows.
House Edge in Plain Words, With One Worked Example
House edge is the share of every rupee staked that the casino expects to keep over the long run. It does not tell you what will happen tonight. It tells you what happens over thousands of rounds, which is exactly how many rounds a regular player ends up playing.
Dragon Tiger makes a clean example, because the maths is short. Two cards have the same rank roughly 1 time in 13, since there are 13 ranks.
The tie bet
Bet ₹100 on tie for 13 rounds: ₹1,300 staked. On average you hit once. At 11 to 1 you get back ₹1,200 (₹1,100 win plus your ₹100). You are down ₹100 on ₹1,300, an edge of about 7.7%. At 8 to 1, you get back ₹900 and are down ₹400, an edge of about 31%.
The Dragon bet
Over the same 13 rounds, Dragon wins about 6, loses about 6 and ties once. The wins and losses cancel out, and the tie costs you half a stake. You lose ₹50 on ₹1,300 staked, an edge of a little under 4%.
Two lessons come from this. First, the same game can carry very different costs depending on which bet you choose. Second, the payout on a side bet tells you almost nothing about its value. An 8-to-1 tie bet sounds generous until you realise it would need to pay more than 12 to 1 just to break even. (These are round figures from a simple 1-in-13 model. In a real eight-deck shoe a tie is a little rarer, about 1 in 13.4, which puts the true edge on an 11-to-1 tie nearer 10% and on an 8-to-1 tie nearer 33%. The Dragon or Tiger bet comes out slightly lower, at about 3.7%.)
Every bet on every table has an edge like this built in. You can choose bets with smaller edges, but none of them makes the edge disappear.
Lucky 7
One card is drawn from the shoe. You bet on what kind of card it will be. The main bets on most tables are:
- Low card: ace to 6.
- High card: 8 to king.
- Lucky 7: exactly a 7, at a higher payout.
- Side bets: red or black, odd or even, and sometimes a specific card or group of ranks.
The 7 is the house card. When a 7 is drawn, low and high bets both lose, and that is where the edge on those bets comes from. Low and high each cover 6 ranks out of 13, so each wins a little less than half the time while paying close to even money.
32 Cards
This game uses a reduced deck of 32 cards, the sixes through kings of each suit. Four players, usually numbered 8, 9, 10 and 11, start with that many points. Each is dealt one card, and its value is added to the starting score. The highest total wins. If two or more players tie for the top, they draw again until one is ahead.
Player 11 starts with the most points, so it wins most often and pays the least. Player 8 starts furthest behind and pays the most. You can usually back a player to win, and on some tables lay one as well. Read the card values in the table rules, especially for jacks, queens and kings, because that is where versions differ.
Poker 20-20 and One-Day Poker
These are Texas Hold'em hands played out for you. Two hands, Player A and Player B, each get two private cards. Five shared cards are dealt to the board, and each hand makes its best five-card poker hand from the seven available. You bet on the winner, and most tables also offer side bets on the type of winning hand. As with Teen Patti, the 20-20 version deals everything at once. The one-day version reveals the board in stages with prices that move between them.
Amar Akbar Anthony
Named after the 1977 film, this is a single-card game with three main outcomes:
- Amar: ace to 6.
- Akbar: 7 to 10.
- Anthony: jack, queen or king.
Amar covers the most ranks and pays the least. Anthony covers the fewest and pays the most. Side bets for colour, odd or even, and under or over 7 are usually on the same screen. It is a quick game with simple rules, and the edge sits in the gap between each payout and the true chance of that outcome.
Bollywood Casino
Another single-card game, with outcomes named after films. Each film covers a set of card ranks, and outcomes that cover more ranks pay less. Because the film names do not tell you which cards they cover, this is the game where reading the rank chart on the table matters most. Do not guess from the name. Look at which ranks each outcome includes before you bet, and compare that with its payout.
Why Doubling Systems Fail: Martingale With Real Numbers
The most popular "system" we hear about is the Martingale: bet on a roughly even-money outcome, double your stake after every loss, and go back to the start after a win. The idea is that one win recovers all the losses plus your first stake. Here is what a losing run does to it, starting at ₹100:
| Loss in a row | Stake on this round | Total staked so far |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | ₹100 | ₹100 |
| 2 | ₹200 | ₹300 |
| 3 | ₹400 | ₹700 |
| 4 | ₹800 | ₹1,500 |
| 5 | ₹1,600 | ₹3,100 |
| 6 | ₹3,200 | ₹6,300 |
| 7 | ₹6,400 | ₹12,700 |
After seven losses you have put ₹12,700 at risk, and the next bet has to be ₹12,800, all to win back a profit of ₹100. Seven losses in a row on a bet that loses about half the time happens roughly once in every 130 or so sequences. That sounds rare, but someone playing fast tables for an evening runs hundreds of sequences, and on a game like Dragon Tiger the main bet loses slightly more than half the time once ties are counted. Tables also have maximum stakes, so the doubling can hit a ceiling before your balance runs out.
The pattern is always the same: many small wins, then one loss that wipes out all of them and more. Changing the bet size never changes the edge on each bet. The same goes for following the results strip. A run of five Dragons does not make Tiger "due". On a shuffled shoe, every round is a fresh draw.
Setting Limits for a Casino Session
Casino rounds are short and constant, so the usual advice for cricket, setting a limit per match, does not translate well. Set limits per session instead:
- A money limit. Decide how much you are prepared to spend before you open a table. When it is gone, the session is over.
- A time limit. Set a phone alarm for 20 or 30 minutes. Fast tables make time disappear.
- A stake size. Keep each bet to a small share of the session budget, so one bad streak cannot end it in three rounds.
- A win rule. If you get well ahead, move part of it out of play, or end the session. Most people give back their winnings by playing on.
- No chasing. Never move to the casino to win back a cricket loss, or to a higher-stake table to win back a casino loss.
If you want a limit you cannot override in the moment, ask us. We can set deposit limits or pause your account. Details are on the responsible gaming page.
Predictor Apps and "Hack" Groups Are Scams
Telegram channels, Instagram pages and APK files that claim to predict Teen Patti or Dragon Tiger results show up constantly. They all work the same way. They show screenshots of big wins, charge a fee or ask for your login "to connect the hack", and then either disappear or blame you when the predictions fail.
Here is how to recognise them:
- They promise fixed or guaranteed results. No one outside the table knows the next card.
- They ask for your user ID and password, or an OTP. With those they can empty your balance.
- They want payment to a personal UPI ID for "VIP" access.
- They push an APK that asks for SMS, contacts or accessibility permissions. That is spyware, not a predictor.
If someone has your login details, message us straight away so we can change the password. If you have paid one of these groups, report it at cybercrime.gov.in or call the national helpline on 1930.
Getting Started at the Casino Tables
You need a Reddybook ID with a balance. If you do not have one yet, our sign up guide walks through it. If you do, log in (see the login guide if the link has changed), open the casino section from the menu, and choose Indian casino or live casino.
Before you play any new table for real money, do three things. Read its rules screen for the exact payouts. Watch two or three rounds without betting, to see how fast the timer runs. Then start with the smallest stake the table allows. Roulette, baccarat and blackjack are covered separately in our international live casino guide. For everything else about your ID, the Reddybook Club homepage is the place to start.
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