LET’S LOOK SOME EXAMPLES:įor roulette, the RTP is 100% - 5.26% = 94.74%Ĭonsider a player who is shooting craps and betting the pass line with no odds for a house edge of 1.41%. Sometimes the language gets loose here, and the value 100% – (House Edge) is referred to as the game’s RTP. The number 100% – (House Edge) is referred to as the game’s theoretical RTP. What it does mean is that the ratio of the two sides of this equation gets closer and closer to 1 as the number of rounds gets larger and larger. “Exact” does not mean that the two sides get closer and closer to each other. Moreover, the greater the number of times the game is played, the more the RTP represents information about the actual return of the game and the more “exact” we expect this equation to become.
The RTP is based on real people placing wagers on games in a live casino environment.įor games that have no strategy (like Casino War, craps or roulette) it is usually the case that:
It is not computed by a spread sheet computation, by running a cycle, or by extensive game simulation.
Note that this number is based on actual wagers and actual winnings. The “Return to Player” or RTP for a casino game is defined by:
