So tonight I tried out a dice game at a Vegas Tech casino that was called “Poker Dice.” I love poker, and dice games can usually be fun, so I decided this was a good bet. Right off the bat I was pleased with the aesthetics. The game table looked very authentic, and the dice shaker and roll graphics were very good, and not very ‘cheesy’.
On to the game, the setup is a one hand bet on a roll of 5-dice. Each 6-sided die has a 9/10/J/K/Q/A, and the standard poker hands possible from these combos make up the payout table. There are 7-payout hands ranging from Two Pair up through 5 of a kind. The payout is a tiered payout scale, which is basically 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, or 20 times your bet. The tier comes in with the bet; your minimum bet is $1.00 and the maximum is $100.00, per tier, and you can bet up to 5 tiers. This makes the maximum bet $500, and the maximum payout $10,000. It sounds more complex than it is, and it works just like a generic slot. The game play is pretty fluid, and I enjoyed my time, I played for roughly 25 minutes. For the first 15 I was betting conservatively, $5 on the 5th tier, so $25 per roll. There was a high frequency of low payout wins, but enough big wins to keep me at or above my starting balance for most of the game. Then I stepped up the bets to $25 per tier, for a $125 total. There is a big risk vs. reward for the higher bets. The payouts can be substantial, but losing streaks can kill you fast. I went pretty quickly from being up $750, to down $800, and by quickly, I’d say over the span of about 5 minutes of $125 rolls. For the last few minutes I decided to max out and see if I could run down to zero, and surprisingly, it took a while. With a $500 bet, the payouts on decent hands were enough to pad my account against a couple of losses. Ultimately I did blow through my balance, but a more conservative play would afford some pretty quick and significant gains.
Take some time, play this game, and give the dice a roll. Any player will get a kick out of this nice spin on a classic game.
