betfair Zero Lounge - no house edge

betfair have reduced the commission on the Banker bet from 5% to 2.75%. This gives the best return to players of any Baccarat game on the web.

To win at betfair's Zero Lounge Baccarat doesn't require you to play any differently to 'normal' Baccarat i.e. our standard Baccarat strategy still applies.

Except that the 2.75% commission figure hides a little secret! betfair state that the 100% payout is accurate to 1 decimal place - 2.75 is actually two decimal places. If you place a £1 bet, the commission will actually be 2.8p - not 2.75p - because it's rounded up to 1 decimal place. Not a massive difference, but enough to tip the house edge back in their favour.

However, there's a way round this, a way to maintain the house edge at 0 and the payout at 100%. To find out how, read our Zero Baccarat system!

betfair pay out 2 - 1 for a suited natural Blackjack and a five card twenty one. Combined with a proper Blackjack strategy, this brings the house edge down to 0.

Our simple 3-stage Blackjack strategy is designed to introduce beginners to the game and take them through to expert players with the minimum of fuss.

The optimal strategy to beat Zero Lounge Blackjack is to use all three of our stages (ie play at 'expert' level) with one or two tweaks for exceptional circumstances.

Learn our Zero Blackjack system and get your payouts to 100%!

betfair's Zero Lounge Roulette wheel has no zero! In other words, the odds on each bet are exactly in line with probability. For example, you'll get paid out 35 to 1 for a single number. The odds of it winning are 35 to 1. On the even-money bets (Red / Black, Odd / Even etc) the odds are exactly evens.

If you've studied our evens-chance gambling systems, your ears will be pricking up at this point! A true odds Roulette wheel should open the doors to the likes of the Martingale, Labouchere, Fibonacci etc.

It should, but it doesn't. betfair may be generous, but they're not stupid! They've placed very strict limits on the Zero Lounge Roulette tables to ensure that they're not taken for every penny they own. Doubling systems are out, as are most progressives.

But there's one system that does still work, even with betfair's tight table limits. To find out what it is, and to learn how to beat the Zero Lounge Roulette, read our Zero Roulette system.

We don't normally cover Video Poker, but the Zero Lounge version attracted our attention!

betfair's Zero Lounge Jacks or Better pays out at 976 to 1. At many other casinos (and in betfair's Main Lounge) this figure is 250 to 1.

Normally, casinos pay out more on a Royal for betting 5 coins at a time. For example, the Main Lounge Jacks or Better pays 4000 to 1 for a Royal. That's 16 times the payout for playing 1 coin.

In the Zero Lounge, the payout for a Royal on 5 coin play is 4880 to 1 - exactly 5 times the payout for playing 1 coin. In other words, there's no advantage to playing more than the mimimum number of coins.

Putting this together with basic Video Poker rules gives a Zero Jacks or Better system!