Positive
They offer more than 40 games including more than 20 slot machines, and 8 video poker variations. Their Jackpot Madness slot machine holds the undisputed title for largest progressive jackpot payouts in the online gambling industry. Because of the software The Gaming Club Casinos uses, they are one of the pioneers in internet gambling and their product is viewed as reliable and easy to use. They have an excellent reputation for strong customer service, honesty and satisfaction records. Their software provider has been an industry leader in coordinating wide-scale audits of casino payouts through PWC (Price Waterhouse & Coopers), offering players tools to verify their play (Play Check = excellent tool for checking the results of play on a hand-by-hand basis) and financial transactions (Cash Check = tool for checking purchases and withdrawals).
Bonus
Initial Deposit Bonus: Make a deposit up to $150 to get a 100% match bonus. Comp Program: 1 point for every $10 you play.
Negative
The implied odds on the games are good Slot Gacor Hari Ini but certainly not great. Blackjack is frustratingly slow.
Financial Information
The Gaming Club Casino accepts Visa or Master credit cards and debit cards with Visa or Master card connection, FirePay, PayPal, Bank Wire and Western Union. The minimum deposit – depending on the deposit method – is in any case $50. Personal identity and details of all members – including name, address, phone number, email address and wagering history – will remain completely confidential, and never given, reported or sold to any third party.
Deposits: VISA or Master Card: Max. Deposit is $1500 in total deposits per day / $2000 in total deposits per week. Pay Pal: Max. Deposit is $250. Bank Wire: Min. Deposit is $500.
Withdrawals: Credit Card: They first credit back to your credit card the amounts equal to your original charges. Your additional winnings will be then mailed to you. Bank Check: Charge for checks less than $1000 will depend on your location. Cash-ins of more than $1000 will be sent out free of charge.
Software
Runs on Windows only and a download is required at just over 16 MB for the complete casino. You download a ‘light’ version (2.5MB) first which offers only Blackjack and Roulette, then others may be added later. The Gaming Club Casino was developed by Micro Gaming (See Micro Gaming Review).
License
Windows Casino is operating under a gaming license granted by the government of Antigua & Barbuda. Established, licensed, and fully functional since 10/1/1995. To have a license means that The Gaming Club Casino is able to yearly deposit enough money (approximately US $50,000 up to US $100,000 per annum), pay the taxes (of about 2,5% up to 5%), and is hence subject to the control of the government of Antigua & Barbuda.
Contact
The Gaming Club Casino does stand out when it comes to customer service. A comprehensive FAQ is available on their website. The people you converse with are intelligent and ready to help.
email: Clubsupport@Gamingclub.com
Tel: +1-800-524-5290 (toll free)
Games
Baccarat
Casino Reviews: Gaming Club CasinoIn baccarat the best bet is always on the banker and the fewer the decks the better the banker bet is. The Gaming Club Casinos uses only one deck, so the casino’s edge on a banker bet is 1.01% and 1.29% on a player bet. There are other casinos using six or even eight decks, which on the one hand increases the house edge up to 1.06% on a banker bet, but on the other hand decreases the house edge on a player bet down to 1.24%. These differences in percentage do not seem large, but they do have a considerable impact on play in real life. Dealt and played Baccarat
using “standard” rules, a winning Banker bet is charged a 5% commission though. Ties pay 8:1 so the casino’s advantage is 14.11% on ties. Many other casinos pay you 9:1 on ties, which lowers the house edge to 4.8% on ties. The table limits are set to $1-$1000 which is excellent since betting limits are considered to be important when playing baccarat and high betting limits are certainly positive. To sum it up it can be said that The Gaming Club Casino’s baccarat is rather standard with pretty average odds for the player and pretty good betting limits for high rollers. Play
Blackjack
Casino Reviews: Gaming Club CasinoSet: 1 Deck is used which is excellent, because as less decks are used as more easy it gets to keep track of the cards or to estimate your chances correctly via card counting. The cards are shuffled after every round though which makes it quite impossible to keep track of the cards. You start off with the same conditions and probabilities every round. Betting Limits are $1-$200 and after asking for permission $1-$2,000 which is the best you will find in the internet. There are only little online casinos to let you wager as high on blackjack. The house edge is about 0.1% which again is incredibly good.
Rules: You can play only one hand which is a pity since it is a great pleasure to play more than one hand at a time and there are casinos offering this option higher up the 20. Anyway, they also offer a multi-hand game with the same rules, except 5 decks instead of 1. This results in a house edge of 0.57% which is not good enough Blackjack
to be played. The dealer stands on A-6 which is standard. Doubling down is only allowed on 9, 10 and 11 which is standard for land based casinos. Usually online casinos allow you to double down about any first pair. But it makes the game more authentic this way. You are not allowed to double down after you split a pair though. Again, there are casinos allowing you doubling after split. You may split pairs to 2 hands only which is below average, because other casinos allow you to split the cards up to 3 or 4 hands. Split Aces may be re-hit though, which rather is a rare feature and taken into positive account. The dealer does not peak / check for blackjack until all the players are finished, so if the dealer does have blackjack then the players will lose the total amount bet, including any additional from doubling or splitting (European hole card rule) which is very tough for the player and advantageous for the casino. Insurance is offered if you think that the dealer might have a blackjack. No surrender is available. Play
Caribbean Poker
Casino Reviews: Gaming Club CasinoThe Gaming Club Casino calls it Cyber Stud Poker. The basic house edge for this game is 5.01% which doesn’t make it look competitive compared to other games. American Roulette has a bigger house edge though. Usually a casino allows you to make a side bet of $1 for which you will receive an additional payoff for certain paying Caribbean Poker
hands (flush or better). This additional payoff is a percentage of a progressive jackpot. The Gaming Club Casino does not run a progressive jackpot. Caribbean Stud Poker is a sucker bet. Keep your fingers away from this game. And if you want to play it, find a casino running a huge progressive jackpot on Caribbean Stud Poker. Table limits are $1 to $50. Play
Payoffs
Hand Payoff
Royal Flush 999:1
Straight Flush 199:1
4 of a Kind 99:1
Full House 14:1
Flush 9:1
Straight 5:1
3 of a Kind 3:1
2 pair 1:1
1 pair 1:1
Craps
Casino Reviews: Gaming Club CasinoThe Gaming Club Casino offers 1x odds: if you bet $10 on the pass-line (bet, that the player will win) with, you can wager $10 behind it (increase your original bet after the dice have been thrown). To wager behind is what a good craps player will do and a criteria of a good craps game is how many odds the casino offers you. As the amount of allowed odds increases, the house advantage decreases considerably. When making the odds bet 1x – as The Gaming Club Casino does – the house edge is 0.85% / 0.68% (pass / don’t pass). When making the odds bet 2x – as most online casinos do – the house edge is cut down to Craps
0.61% / 0.45% already. But The Gaming Club Casino does not exactly offer the 1x odds the way land based casinos do: 1x usually means that you can bet the amount you could win behind your initial bet. So if the odds are 1x and you bet $10 on the pass-line, you could win $20 and hence wager $20 behind it. Because The Gaming Club Casino does not follow the real rules – as almost no online casino does – the basic house edge is 0.85% for pass-line and 0.82% for don’t- pass-line-bets. There are better online casinos to play craps at, and The Gaming Club Casino probably is one of the worst casinos to play craps at. The table limits are $1 to $99. Play
Keno
Keno Review: Gaming Club CasinoThere are 80 balls from which 20 are drawn. You can pick up to 15 numbers which is rather rare, because usually you can pick a maximum of 10 numbers only, whether you are talking about land-based or online casinos. Gaming Club Casino has an average payout of 96.66% for all games for the year 2001 which can be considered standard. Limits are $1 to $10 which again is good, because other online casinos usually do not Keno
allow to bet more than $5. The average payout for Gaming Club’s keno game is nearly 95% (92.85% for all 15 picks and 94.12% when not counting the pick 1 which always pays 75% only). This payout ratio is excellent since both land-based and online casinos generally pay back about 70% – 75% on average. Overall, Gaming Club Casino offers returns ranging from 92.09% to the high of 94.93%, except for the Pick 1, which always pays 3:1 for a return of 75%. Play
Pick
Match 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Payouts
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0%
1 3 1 1 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0 0 0 0 0 0 75.00%
2 – 9 2 2 1 1 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0 0 0 0 92.09%
3 – – 16 6 3 2 1 1 1 1 1 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 93.04%
4 – – – 12 15 3 6 3 2 2 1 1 0.5 0.5 0.5 93.79%
5 – – – – 50 30 12 6 4 3 2 2 3 2 1 93.87%
6 – – – – – 75 36 19 8 5 6 4 4 3 2 93.79%
7 – – – – – – 100 90 20 10 15 24 5 5 5 94.93%
8 – – – – – – – 720 80 30 25 72 20 12 15 92.90%
9 – – – – – – – – 1200 600 180 250 80 50 50 92.86%
10 – – – – – – – – – 1800 1000 500 240 150 150 94.54%
11 – – – – – – – – – – 3000 2000 500 500 300 93.10%
12 – – – – – – – – – – – 4000 3000 1000 600 94.22%
13 – – – – – – – – – – – – 6000 2000 1200 94.93%
14 – – – – – – – – – – – – – 7500 2500 94.27%
15 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 10000 94.39%
Best Pick
The best keno game online is Gaming Club Pick 13, with a return of 94.93%.
Gaming Club Pick 13
Match Casino pays Happens every Returns
0 0 x 61st 00.00%
1 0 x 11th 00.00%
2 0 x 5th 00.00%
3 0.5 x 4th 13.64%
4 0.5 x 4th 11.36%
5 3 x 8th 37.76%
6 4 x 21st 19.01%
7 5 x 81st 06.16%
8 20 x 458th 04.37%
9 80 x 3,848th 02.08%
10 240 x 49,845th 00.48%
11 500 x 1,060,033th 00.05%
12 3000 x 41,694,621th 00.01%
13 6000 x 4,065,225,582th 00.01%
numbers amount wagered game 94.93%
of your money
Red Dog
Casino Reviews: Gaming Club CasinoThis is a simple game where the player makes an ‘ante’ (places a wager before the game begins), then two cards are chosen and you may raise your bet if you think a third card will fit in between the first two. In Red Dog the greater the number of decks the better the odds for the player. This is because of the greater probability of drawing a fitting card or a three of a kind, which pays 11:1. Red Dog
Since The Gaming Club Casino uses only 1 deck – as most other online casinos do – the house edge is 3.16% which makes The Gaming Club Casino one of the worst casinos to play Red Dog at. There are online casinos offering an eight decks Red Dog game, cutting the house edge down to 2.75%. The default table limits are set to $1-$50 which would not be enough for a high roller to play Red Dog here. Play
European Roulette
Casino Reviews: Gaming Club CasinoThis is a ‘European’ wheel with a single zero, but the ‘en prison’ rule does not apply, so the casino has a 2.70% edge. If you are an outside bettor, who likes to bet on high, low, red, black, odd or even only, you should play the American roulette version in another casino, since it offers slightly better odds for those bets (2.63%). But if you prefer to bet on all bets alike, you really should Roulette
play the European roulette, since the house edge here is 2.7% on all bets. Consider that inside bets offer far better payouts than outside bets, so bet the middle 12 once in a while. The Betting Limits vary according to the type of bet. For example, they are usually $1-$10 on a single number “straight up” and $1-$80 on an “outside” bet. If you would like to bet higher, go to Global-Player Casino. You can bet up to $6,000 there. Play
Scratch Cards
Casino Reviews: Gaming Club CasinoThese are like lottery tickets where you scratch off a protective covering to reveal matching numbers or something similar and there is Scratch Cards
absolutely no way to estimate what the overall payback may be. Limits are $2 to $200. This scratch-off game has a winning multiplier that goes up to 50x, so for your $2 bet you’ll walk away with $100. Play
Sic Bo
Casino Reviews: Gaming Club CasinoSic Bo, meaning “dice pair” is an ancient Chinese gambling game in which you bet on the combinations that three dice can make. Generally Sic Bo offers very bad odds for the player, but since Sic Bo
many land based casinos offer you much worse payoffs and not many online casinos offer you such good payoffs as The Gaming Club Casino, it is probably the best idea to play Sic Bo here. Play
Payoffs
Bet Probability Payoff House Edge
4 – 10 (small bet) 48.61% 1:1 2.78%
11 – 18 (big bet) 48.61% 1:1 2.78%
Any specific 2 dice combination 13.89% 6:1 2.78%
Any specific of the 6 Doubles (pairs) 7.41% 11:1 11.11%
Any specific of the 6 Triples 0.46% 180:1 11.11%
Any Triple 2.78% 31:1 13.2%
One dice being a specific number (1-6) 34.72% 1:1 30.56%
4 or 17 1.39% 62:1 12.5%
5 or 16 2.78% 31:1 11.11%
6 or 15 4.63% 18:1 12.04%
7 or 14 6.94% 12:1 9.72%
8 or 13 9.72% 8:1 12.5%
9 or 12 11.57% 7:1 7.41%
10 or 11 12.50% 6:1 12.5%
Slots
Casino Reviews: Gaming Club CasinoIt is difficult to calculate the payout probabilities of slot machines without knowing how many times a certain symbol appears on each real. You could sit in front of the machine, pull the lever 10,000 times and write the results down or rely on the information that the casino gives you. The payouts here are audited by PWC (PriceWaterhouseCoopers), a world wide operating, known and trusted organization of lawyers. They say that their slots payout percentage is about 95% which is pretty good Slots
amongst online casinos. So we would advise you to try your luck here. Another reason for playing here is that their jackpots get big at all their progressives. A number of casinos and sister casinos are linked to another and pool their resources to make available the biggest jackpots online. New casinos are joining this system and continuously adding to the overall jackpots. The jackpots range from $10,000 up to $100,000. There are more than 40 slot machines available. Six of which are progressives. Here are the most favorites:
Slot
Type Reels
Lines Winning
Comb. Wild
Symb. Bonus
Screen Den. Prize Play
Fruit Fiesta 3/3 17 Yes No 25c – 75c Jackpot Play
Lots a Loot 3/5 10 Yes No 50c – $2.5 Jackpot Play
Cash Splash 3/1 10 Yes No $1 – $3 Jackpot Play
Treasure Nile 5/5 29 Yes No $1 – $5 Jackpot Play
Wow Pot 3/1 10 Yes No 50c – $1.5 Jackpot Play
Winning Wizards 5/5 29 No No $1 – $5 10,000 Play
Genie’s Gems 5/5 29 No No $1 – $5 10,000 Play
Party Time 3/1 8 No No $1 – $3 9,000 Play
Lion’s Share 3/1 9 Yes No 25c – $5 8,000 Play
Goblins Gold 3/1 7 Yes No $1 – $3 6,000 Play
Cool Buck 3/5 10 Yes No 25c – $5 6,000 Play
Jackpot Express 3/5 11 Yes No 25c – $5 5,000 Play
Martian Money 3/5 10 No No 25c – $5 5,000 Play
Flower Power 3/1 7 Yes No $1 – $3 5,000 Play
Reels Royce 3/3 9 No No 25c – $5 4,000 Play
Trick or Treat 3/3 9 No No 25c – $5 4,000 Play
Crazy Crocodile 3/1 10 No Yes 25c – $5 4,000 Play
7 Oceans 3/1 8 No No 25c – $5 4,000 Play
Monkey’s Money 3/1 9 Yes No $1 – $2 3,000 Play
Golden Dragon 3/5 10 Yes No 25c – $3 3,000 Play
Fantastic 7 3/1 10 No No 25c – $5 2,500 Play
Pirates Paradise 3/3 10 No No 25c – $5 2,500 Play
Caribbean Gold 3/1 9 Yes No 25c – $1 2,500 Play
Pharaoh’s Fortune 3/1 10 No No 25c – $5 2,500 Play
Fruit Slots 3/1 12 No No 25c – $5 2,500 Play
Jesters Jackpot 3/1 7 No No 25c – $5 2,400 Play
Big 5 3/1 7 No No 25c – $5 2,400 Play
Jurassic Jackpot 3/1 9 No Yes $1 – $2 1,600 Play
Double Magic 3/1 10 No Yes 25c – $5 1,600 Play
Cosmic Cat 3/1 9 Yes No 25c – $5 1,000 Play
Chiefs Magic 3/1 7 No No $1 – $3 600 Play
Video Poker
Casino Reviews: Gaming Club CasinoThe Gaming Club Casino features a set of nine different video poker machines, almost all offering a very good payout. The Super Jax machine is Video Poker
progressive and pays the jackpot for 4 Jacks and a Super Jax Card. The coin denominations you wish to play are 25c, 50c, $1, $2, or $5. Overall, Video Poker seems to be one of the Gaming Club’s better games.
