What is the house edge in Dragon Tiger?

With an 8-deck shoe, betting Dragon or Tiger costs 3.73% at tables that return half your stake on a tie, and 7.47% where a tie loses the whole bet. The Tie bet costs 32.77% at 8:1 and 10.36% at 11:1, and the Suited Tie costs 13.98% at 50:1.

Is Dragon Tiger better than baccarat?

It's simpler and faster, but baccarat is cheaper per hand. Baccarat's Banker bet carries a 1.06% edge and Player 1.24%, against 3.73% for Dragon or Tiger at the best tables. If you like the speed of Dragon Tiger, keep your bets small and avoid the Tie.

What is the best bet in Sic Bo?

Big, Small, Odd or Even. They pay 1:1 and win 105 of the 216 possible outcomes, a 2.78% house edge. Single-number bets cost 7.87%, and every double, triple and total bet costs 13% or more.

Why do Big and Small lose on a triple?

That's where the house edge comes from. Big covers totals 11–17, which is 107 of the 216 dice outcomes, but two of those (4-4-4 and 5-5-5) are triples and lose. That leaves 105 winners, or 48.61%, on a bet that pays even money.

Can the roads or scoreboards predict the next result?

No. Roads and scoreboards record what has already happened. Every Dragon Tiger hand is dealt from a shuffled shoe and every Sic Bo roll is independent, so a streak doesn't make the other side 'due'. Use the roads for fun, not for prediction.

Does the Martingale system work in Sic Bo or Dragon Tiger?

No. Doubling after each loss wins small amounts often and loses big amounts occasionally. Starting at US$5, seven losses in a row cost US$635 and the next bet is US$640, just to win US$5. Over 200 Big/Small bets, the chance of hitting at least one seven-loss streak is about 61%.

Do bonuses count on Dragon Tiger and Sic Bo?

Usually not the main welcome offers, which are mostly slots-only. Live casino welcomes do exist, like GOD55's 100% up to ≈ US$49 at 30x or BK8's 50% up to ≈ US$48 at 25x deposit + bonus, and betting both sides (Dragon and Tiger, or Big and Small) breaks the terms at casinos such as UWIN33.

Where can I play Dragon Tiger and Sic Bo live?

DK88 has Dragon Tiger and Gravity Sic Bo across 20 live studios, BK8 has Dragon Tiger and Super Sic Bo, GOD55 runs both at its Asian studios, and Megapari has Dragon Tiger and Mega Sic Bo. Crypto players can find Super Sic Bo at Winna.

Dragon Tiger & Sic Bo — Rules, Payouts, House Edge per Bet

Why Dragon Tiger and Sic Bo rule Southeast Asian live lobbies

Walk into any Asian live casino lobby and, right after baccarat, you’ll find two games: Dragon Tiger and Sic Bo. One is a card game, one is a dice game, and they share everything players in the region love:

They’re fast. A Dragon Tiger hand is two cards. A Sic Bo round is one shake of three dice.
They’re simple. You can learn either game in a minute, and the dealer does all the work.
They’re rooted in the region. Dragon Tiger (Long Hu in Chinese) is a two-card cousin of baccarat. Sic Bo is an old Chinese dice game, also called Tai Sai or Dai Siu (“big small”), and in Vietnam its Big/Small bet is the famous tài xỉu.
The best bets are decent value. Dragon or Tiger and Big or Small carry house edges of under 4%, better than most slots.

The catch is that both layouts are full of tempting bets that cost far more. A Dragon Tiger Tie at 8:1 costs almost nine times as much per bet as Dragon or Tiger. The tables below show every main bet and its true cost, so you know exactly where the value is.

If you’re new to live dealers in general, our live casino guide covers the studios, table limits and streaming basics.

Dragon Tiger rules in 60 seconds

Dragon Tiger is played with a shoe of standard cards, usually eight decks at live tables. Each round:

You bet on Dragon, Tiger or Tie (plus any side bets the table offers).
The dealer places one card face up on Dragon and one card on Tiger.
The higher card wins. Ace is the lowest card (1) and King the highest (13). Suits don’t rank, so the 7 of hearts and the 7 of clubs are equal.
If both cards have the same rank, it’s a tie.

That’s the whole game. There’s no drawing, no third card and no decisions after you bet. It’s baccarat stripped down to one card per side, which is why it moves even faster than Speed Baccarat.

Ties are the rule that matters. At most live tables, if you bet Dragon or Tiger and the hand ties, you get half your stake back. At some tables you lose the whole bet. That single rule doubles the house edge, so check it on the table’s paytable or info button before your first hand.

Roads and scoreboards show the history of the shoe: which side won, how often, and where the ties fell. They’re fun to follow, but they don’t predict anything. Each hand comes from the remaining cards in a shuffled shoe, and a run of Dragons doesn’t make Tiger “due”.

Durian tip: Before you bet, tap the table’s info or paytable button and find two lines: what a tie does to a Dragon or Tiger bet, and what the Tie pays. Those two numbers decide whether the table costs you 3.73% or 7.47% a hand, and whether the Tie is 32.77% or 10.36%.

Dragon Tiger payouts and the house edge of every bet

Here are the usual payouts and the house edge with an 8-deck shoe. Studios set their own paytables, so treat the payouts as the common versions and confirm them at your table.

Bet	Usual payout	House edge (8-deck shoe)
Dragon or Tiger (half your stake back on a tie, most live tables)	1:1	3.73%
Dragon or Tiger where a tie loses the whole stake	1:1	7.47%
Tie	8:1 at many tables, 11:1 at some studios	32.77% at 8:1, 10.36% at 11:1
Suited Tie (same rank and suit)	50:1	13.98%

For comparison, baccarat’s Banker bet costs 1.06% and Player 1.24%, so Dragon Tiger is the pricier game per hand even at its best tables. Our baccarat guide has the full rules if you want the cheaper option.

Where the numbers come from

An 8-deck shoe holds 416 cards, 32 of each rank. Once Dragon’s card is out, 415 cards remain and 31 of them match its rank. So the chance of a tie is 31 ÷ 415 = 7.47%, and Dragon and Tiger each win the remaining 92.53% split evenly: 46.27% each.

Now bet US$10 on Dragon for 1,000 hands, on average:

Dragon wins about 463 hands: +US$4,627.
Tiger wins about 463 hands: −US$4,627.
About 75 hands tie, and you lose half your stake each time: 74.7 × US$5 = −US$373.

Net result: about −US$373 on US$10,000 bet, or 3.73%. If the table takes your whole stake on a tie, those 75 ties cost US$747 instead, which is where 7.47% comes from.

The Tie bet pays 8:1 but only lands 7.47% of the time. Over 1,000 US$10 Tie bets you’d win about 75 times for US$6,723 (75 × US$90 back, stake included) against US$10,000 staked: a loss of about US$3,277, or 32.77%. At 11:1 the same maths gives 10.36%, still nearly ten times the cost of a Banker bet in baccarat.

Sic Bo rules: three dice, 216 outcomes

Sic Bo is played with three dice in a shaker or automatic dome. You place bets on the layout, the dealer shakes, and the dice settle every bet on the table at once. Three six-sided dice can land in 216 combinations (6 × 6 × 6), and every bet’s payout and house edge comes from how many of those 216 it covers.

The main bets:

Big: the total is 11–17. Small: the total is 4–10. Both pay 1:1 and both lose on any triple (three dice showing the same number).
Odd / Even: the total is odd or even, also 1:1 and also lost on a triple.
Single number: pick a number from 1 to 6. You win 1:1 if one die shows it, 2:1 if two do and 3:1 if all three do.
Two-dice combination: two specific different numbers, such as 3 and 5.
Specific double: a chosen number on at least two dice.
Any triple or a specific triple (for example, three 4s).
Totals: bet on an exact total from 4 to 17. The rarer the total, the bigger the payout.

The triple rule is the whole house edge on Big and Small. Totals of 11–17 cover 107 of the 216 outcomes, but two of them, 4-4-4 and 5-5-5, are triples and lose. That leaves 105 winning outcomes out of 216, or 48.61%, on a bet that pays even money.

Sic Bo payouts and the house edge per bet

These are the common payouts. Some studios pay less on the long-shot bets, and the edge jumps when they do, so both versions are shown where tables differ.

Bet	Usual payout	Wins in 216 rolls	House edge
Big / Small, Odd / Even	1:1	105	2.78%
Single number (1, 2 or 3 dice match)	1:1 / 2:1 / 3:1	91	7.87%
Two-dice combination	5:1	30	16.67%
Specific double	10:1 (8:1 at some tables)	16	18.52% (33.33% at 8:1)
Any triple	30:1 (24:1 at some)	6	13.89% (30.56% at 24:1)
Specific triple	180:1 (150:1 at some)	1	16.20% (30.09% at 150:1)
Total 4 or 17	60:1 (50:1 at some)	3	15.28% (29.17% at 50:1)

Three things stand out:

Big, Small, Odd and Even are in a class of their own. At 2.78%, they cost about a third of the next-best bet and a fifth or less of most others.
The single-number bet is a trap that looks safe. It wins often (91 of 216 rolls), but the payouts for two and three matches don’t make up for the 125 rolls where your number doesn’t appear at all: (75 × 1 + 15 × 2 + 1 × 3 − 125) ÷ 216 = −7.87%.
A lower payout can double the edge. A specific triple at 150:1 instead of 180:1 almost doubles its cost. Always read the paytable.

Multiplier versions change the maths. Games such as Evolution’s Super Sic Bo, Pragmatic Play’s Mega Sic Bo or other “lightning” tables add random multipliers to some bets and usually trim the base payouts to pay for them. The house edge per bet is different from the table above, so check that table’s own paytable or help screen. Big and Small typically stay the simplest bets on the layout.

Durian tip: If a Sic Bo table offers a bet you’ve never seen, find it in the paytable and count how often it wins. If the payout isn’t close to the odds against it, it’s a long-shot bet with a big house edge, however exciting it looks.

Worked examples: what a session really costs

House edges look tiny as percentages. They become real money when you multiply them by your bets. The formula is the same for every casino game:

Expected cost = bet × number of rounds × house edge

Say you play 60 rounds in an hour (an easy pace to picture; real tables vary) at US$10 a bet: US$600 of bets per hour.

What you bet	House edge	Expected cost per US$10 bet	Expected cost per hour
Baccarat Banker (for comparison)	1.06%	US$0.11	US$6.36
Sic Bo Big or Small	2.78%	US$0.28	US$16.68
Dragon or Tiger, half back on a tie	3.73%	US$0.37	US$22.38
Dragon or Tiger, tie loses the stake	7.47%	US$0.75	US$44.82
Sic Bo Any Triple at 30:1	13.89%	US$1.39	US$83.34
Dragon Tiger Tie at 8:1	32.77%	US$3.28	US$196.62

Same stake, same hour, and the cost runs from about US$17 to almost US$200 depending only on which box you put your chips in.

Sizing your stake for a session

A simple rule keeps sessions fun: bet 1–2% of your session budget per round.

Budget: US$200 for the evening.
Bet size: 2% = US$4 a round on Dragon, Tiger, Big or Small.
One hour, 60 rounds: US$240 of bets. Expected cost on Dragon at 3.73%: US$240 × 3.73% = about US$9.

At US$4 a bet, a run of bad luck dents the US$200 but rarely wipes it out, and you can play for hours on an expected cost of around US$9 an hour. Bet US$40 a round from the same budget and the expected cost becomes about US$90 an hour, and one ordinary losing streak can end the night in minutes.

Your session plan, step by step

Pick a table with Dragon Tiger or Sic Bo and check its minimum and maximum bet on the lobby tile.
Read the paytable: the tie rule and Tie payout in Dragon Tiger, the triple and total payouts in Sic Bo.
Set a budget and bet 1–2% of it per round.
Stick to the core bets: Dragon or Tiger, Big or Small, Odd or Even.
Treat side bets as a treat, not a strategy: a small, occasional stake at most.
Ignore the roads for prediction. Follow them for fun if you like.
Stop at a set loss or a set win, and cash out winnings rather than re-betting them.

Why betting systems fail: the Martingale in numbers

The Martingale is the system everyone tries on Big/Small or Dragon/Tiger: bet once, double after every loss, and go back to your base bet after a win. Each win recovers all previous losses plus one base bet, so it feels like it can’t lose. Here’s what actually happens with a US$5 base bet on Big:

Round	Bet	Total lost if this bet loses too
1	US$5	US$5
2	US$10	US$15
3	US$20	US$35
4	US$40	US$75
5	US$80	US$155
6	US$160	US$315
7	US$320	US$635
8	US$640	US$1,275

After seven losses in a row you’ve lost US$635, which is 127 times your base bet, and the next bet is US$640 just to win back US$5 profit. Three things break the system:

Losing streaks are common. Big loses 111 of 216 rolls (51.39%). The chance of seven losses in a row starting from any given bet is under 1%, but over a session of 200 Big/Small bets, the chance of hitting at least one seven-loss streak somewhere is about 61%.
Table limits stop you. If the table maximum is below US$640, you can’t even place the recovery bet, and the US$635 is simply gone.
The edge never changes. Every bet in the sequence still carries 2.78%. Doubling up doesn’t change the odds; it just trades many small wins for rare, very large losses.

The same goes for Paroli, Fibonacci, “follow the road” and any app or Telegram group selling a Dragon Tiger or Sic Bo predictor. Results are random, and no system or pattern changes the house edge. Flat bets at 1–2% of your budget are the honest approach.

Bonuses at the live tables: what counts

Here’s the part most players learn the hard way: most casino welcome bonuses don’t count live tables. Among our reviews, GOD55’s 255%, me88’s 288% and MD88’s 288% welcomes are slots-only, and live bets typically count little or nothing toward wagering (our wagering guide explains why). Dragon Tiger and Sic Bo players should look for these instead:

Live casino welcome bonuses

GOD55: 100% up to ≈ US$49 on live casino, 30x turnover.
Maxim88: 50% up to ≈ US$49 on live casino, 25x, from ≈ US$12.
BK8: 50% up to ≈ US$48 on live casino, 25x deposit + bonus within 30 days. Evolution and CyberBetX tables are excluded, so play its other studios while it’s active.
MD88: 100% up to ≈ US$46, 22x deposit + bonus, with a max cashout of ≈ US$490.
AW8: its 150% welcome has a live casino version up to ≈ US$145 at 35x, excluding Allbet, Dream Gaming, Playtech, Evolution and Asia Gaming tables.

Rebates on every bet

DK88: a daily rebate of up to 1.5% of turnover with no wagering, plus a 38% live casino deposit bonus you can buy in its King’s Market for 50 Dash Coins.
GOD55: an instant rebate of up to 1% in Malaysia (0.8% in Singapore) by VIP tier, plus a daily 10% live casino deposit bonus up to ≈ US$24 at 8x. Its rebates pause while a bonus is active.
me88: an instant rebate of up to 1.2% across live casino, slots, sports and fishing, with no cap and no turnover.

One rule to know: never bet both sides. Covering Dragon and Tiger, or Big and Small, in the same round is a classic way to grind turnover cheaply, and casinos ban it. UWIN33’s terms, for example, don’t count bets on both sides toward its bonus turnover. Our bonus terms guide covers this and the other clauses that void bonuses.

Worked example: a rebate at the Dragon Tiger table

You play US$10 a hand, 60 hands a night, three nights a week: US$1,800 of turnover.

Expected cost on Dragon at 3.73%: US$1,800 × 3.73% = about US$67.
With a 1% rebate: US$18 back. At 1.5%: US$27 back, cutting the expected cost by about 40%.
With a slots welcome bonus active: your Dragon Tiger bets don’t help clear it, and at casinos like GOD55 the bonus also pauses your rebate.

For regular table players, a no-wagering rebate is worth more than almost any headline match.

Which of our casinos have Dragon Tiger and Sic Bo

Live lobbies change often, so this table lists only the tables our reviews named when we tested. A blank doesn’t mean a casino lacks the game, just that our review didn’t name it.

Casino	Dragon Tiger	Sic Bo	Live line-up
DK88	✓	✓ Gravity Sic Bo	20 studios, including Evolution, Pragmatic Play Live, SA Gaming, Sexy Baccarat and Asia Gaming
GOD55	✓	✓	19 studios, including Evolution, SA Gaming, Sexy Baccarat, WM Casino and Dream Gaming
BK8	✓	✓ Super Sic Bo	10 studios, including Evolution, Pragmatic Play Live, Sexy Casino and SA Gaming
Megapari	✓	✓ Mega Sic Bo	Evolution, Ezugi, Pragmatic Play Live, SA Gaming and Winfinity, with a sic bo collection
BC.Game	✓		700+ tables from Evolution, Pragmatic Play, Sexy Gaming and more, plus the Fish Prawn Crab dice game
Maxim88		✓ Super Sic-Bo	14 studios, with an Evo Club shortcut to Evolution’s tables
UWIN33		✓ Extra Sic Bo	11 studios, including Evolution, Pragmatic Play Live and Playtech
AW8		✓ every sic bo variant	15 studios and 1,726 live tables on AW8 Pro
MD88		✓	Evolution, Pragmatic Play Live, Sexy Baccarat, SA Gaming and more
Winna		✓ Super Sic Bo	79 tables from Evolution and Pragmatic Play Live, plus Fan Tan and Bac Bo

For Asian-dealer Dragon Tiger with full roadmaps, look for SA Gaming, Sexy Baccarat, WM Casino and Dream Gaming in the lobby. For multiplier versions of Sic Bo, Evolution and Pragmatic Play Live are the names to find.

Where to play Dragon Tiger and Sic Bo

DK88: our top pick for both games. It has Dragon Tiger and Gravity Sic Bo across 20 live studios, Singapore Baccarat for when you want the cheaper card game, and a daily rebate of up to 1.5% with no wagering that works on the table bets a slots bonus ignores. Its King’s Market also sells a 38% live casino deposit bonus for loyalty coins.
GOD55: the pick for Asian-studio variety, with dragon tiger, sic bo, baccarat and roulette across 19 live studios. Start with the 100% live casino welcome up to ≈ US$49 (30x), then use the daily 10% live deposit bonus and the instant rebate of up to 1%.
BK8: the pick for players in the Philippines, with Dragon Tiger and Super Sic Bo, Evolution and SA Gaming tables, and a peso account. The 50% live casino welcome up to ≈ US$48 carries 25x deposit + bonus, and its instant rebate pays 0.3% on live baccarat from the regular tier, with no turnover.

Playing with crypto? Winna has Evolution’s Super Sic Bo, Fan Tan and Bac Bo with instant rakeback from your first bet, and Megapari adds Mega Sic Bo and Dragon Tiger with peso and crypto accounts. Our RTP and RNG guide compares these table edges with slots, and the bonuses page lists every current offer.

These games move fast, so set a budget and a time limit before you sit down and stop when you reach either. If it stops being fun, our responsible gambling page can help.