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The term is used in many card games if the rules provide for a special type of bets that are valid regardless of the principal amount at stake. 

Description

Side Bets – additional bets in gambling on which accumulative jackpots or bonus payouts are played.

For example, side bets are used in blackjack to drawing of the progressive jackpots. 

In most of the additional rates laid pretty high mathematical superiority of the casino, so the theoretical return on they're too low. Accordingly, gambling experts do not recommend doing them.

About RTP in the side bets of different online games, read the reviews at Casinoz.

Denis Anipchenko
Denis Anipchenko
Editor-in-chief of Casinoz

Editor-in-chief of the multilingual Casinoz platform. A linguist by education, he came into the gambling industry from the offline side — before 2010, when land-based casinos in Ukraine were still legal, he worked his way up from an entry-level operational position to casino manager. He has been at Casinoz since 2010: first as an editor and review author, then editor-in-chief from 2014. Coordinates a team of authors, translators, and reviewers across all language markets of the platform.

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