Free Dragon Tiger
One card to each side from an eight-deck shoe, played for chips that are worth nothing, with the cost of each bet shown before the cards come out.
Play chips
1,000
No real money, no prizes, nothing to buy.
8-deck shoe · 416 left
Pick a chip and bet on Dragon, Tiger or Tie.
Session coach
Last round
Nothing played yet. After each of your rounds the coach says what the round cost and what decided it.
Decide the cost before you start
Gambling is entertainment with a price, like a concert ticket. The useful question is not how much you might win but how much the evening is allowed to cost. Pick that number first, and treat reaching it as the end of the session. You can set one below and the coach will hold you to it.
Next bet
No bet lined up. Once there is one, its expected cost shows here before you play it.
- Rounds played
- 0
- Chips bet in total
- 0
- Bets raised after a loss
- 0
Where the result came from
- House edge, on average
- 0
- Luck
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- Result
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The report fills in as you play. Price an hour of Dragon Tiger against other tables
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What your bets cost
- Dragon edge
- 3.73%
- No bet
- Tie edge
- 32.77%
- No bet
- Tiger edge
- 3.73%
- No bet
- Expected cost of this round
- 0
- Per hour at 70 rounds
- 0
Dragon and Tiger cost the same, because the only thing the house takes from them is half the bet on a tie. The Tie bet costs about 9 times as much for every chip. Nothing about the cards already dealt changes either figure in any way you can use. Price an hour of Dragon Tiger against other tables
This session
- Rounds
- 0
- Chips staked
- 0
- Net chips
- 0
- Expected at these edges
- 0
Expected is each bet's house edge taken on the chips you put on it. A short session swings well away from it in both directions.
Built by Alexander Korsager · last updated October 3, 2026 · corrections
- House edge on Dragon and on Tiger
- 3.73%
- House edge on the Tie at 8 to 1
- 32.77%
- Rounds in which the two cards tie
- 1 in 13.4
- Chips an hour a 50-chip Dragon bet costs on average, at 70 rounds an hour
- 131
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A table that shows what the game costs
Dragon Tiger is the shortest casino game there is.
One card is dealt to the Dragon, one to the Tiger, and the higher card wins. There are no draw rules, no hands to total and nothing to decide after the bet, so there is no skill to practice here. What the table is for is seeing what the game costs.
- DragonTiger
Dragon has the higher card: king over 9.
- DragonTiger
Tiger has the higher card: 2 over ace.
- DragonTiger
Tie: two 7s. 50% of each Dragon and Tiger bet is taken.
Each side has the higher card in 46.27% of rounds, and the cards tie in 7.47%.
It costs more than it looks.
Dragon and Tiger each keep 3.73% of the chips staked, because half of the bet is taken whenever the two cards tie. The Tie bet keeps 32.77%, about 9 times as much. And because a round is over in seconds, the cost per hour runs well ahead of slower games: at 70 rounds an hour, a 50-chip bet on Dragon costs about 131 chips an hour on average, and the panel beside the table works that out for whatever you put down.
- Baccarat, Player bet43
1.24% of every chip staked
- Dragon or Tiger131
3.73% of every chip staked
- Tie1,147
32.77% of every chip staked
At 70 rounds an hour, the pace this page borrows from baccarat.
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Rules at this table
Dragon
- Pays
- 1 to 1
- Wins
- 46.27% of rounds
- When the cards match
- Loses 50%, the rest is returned
House edge
3.73%
All of it from the rounds that tie
Tie
- Pays
- 8 to 1
- Wins
- 7.47% of rounds
- When the cards match
- Wins
House edge
32.77%
About 9 times the cost of Dragon or Tiger
Tiger
- Pays
- 1 to 1
- Wins
- 46.27% of rounds
- When the cards match
- Loses 50%, the rest is returned
House edge
3.73%
All of it from the rounds that tie
- 8 decks, 416 cards, dealt from a shoe and reshuffled when it runs down to the cut card.
- One card is dealt face up to the Dragon and one to the Tiger. The higher card wins.
- Aces are low: the ace is the lowest card and the king the highest. Suits do not matter.
Any bet takes up to 500 chips. Your bets stay down for the next round until you clear them. The Suited Tie and other side bets are not offered.
FAQ
- Is this Dragon Tiger game played for real money?
- No. The table uses play chips that have no value, cannot be bought, and cannot be cashed out or exchanged for anything. If you run out, you are handed another stack for free. There is no account and nothing to download.
- What is the house edge in Dragon Tiger?
- On an eight-deck shoe, Dragon and Tiger each cost 3.73% of the chips staked and the Tie costs 32.77% at 8 to 1. Each side wins 46.27% of rounds and the cards tie 7.47% of the time. The edge on Dragon and Tiger comes entirely from losing half the bet on a tie.
- What does the Tie bet cost?
- More than almost any other bet on a casino table. A tie comes up about once in 13.4 rounds, so a fair payout would be about 12.4 to 1. The table pays 8 to 1 and keeps the difference, which is 32.77% of every chip bet on it. That is more than the dearest of the 41 bets in this site's house edge table, which keeps 27.00%.
- Do the results on the road help predict the next round?
- No. The beads show what has happened, and each round is two fresh cards from the shoe whatever came before it. Streaks of Dragon or Tiger appear in any random sequence. Following them, or betting against them, changes nothing about what a bet costs.
How this game works
The table deals from a shoe of 8 decks shuffled in your browser so that every ordering is equally likely. The odds are counted, not estimated: there are 172,640 ordered ways to deal a card to the Dragon and then one to the Tiger. After the first card, 31 of the remaining 415 cards share its value, so 12,896 of those deals tie. The rest split evenly: 79,872 for the Dragon and 79,872 for the Tiger.
A Dragon or Tiger chip wins and loses equally often and gives up half of itself on a tie, which is 3.73% of the stake. A Tie chip wins 8 on 12,896 deals and loses itself on the other 159,744, which is 32.77%. The site's tests check both figures by settling every one of the 172,640 deals.
The cost per hour uses 70 rounds an hour, the pace the house edge comparison uses for baccarat. Dragon Tiger deals two cards where baccarat deals four to six, so that pace is on the slow side for it. At that pace a 50-chip bet costs about 131 chips an hour on Dragon or Tiger and about 1,147 on the Tie. The same bet on baccarat's Player, at 1.24%, costs about 43.
The expected cost of a round is each bet's edge multiplied by the chips on it, added together. The session figure is the same sum over every round you have dealt.
Limits
- The edges are for a full eight-deck shoe. They move very slightly as cards leave it, by far too little to act on.
- Some tables pay the Tie at a different price, use fewer decks, or take the whole Dragon or Tiger bet on a tie. Those games are priced differently and are not dealt here.
- The pace is an assumption borrowed from baccarat, not a measurement of any Dragon Tiger table. A faster dealer raises the cost per hour in proportion.
- Play chips do not feel like money. A losing run that is easy to sit through here is harder with a real stake.
This is a practice game for adults. It has no real-money play and links to none. Dragon Tiger played for money has a house edge on every bet, a fast pace that multiplies it, and no pattern on the road that removes it.
Gambling can cause serious harm. The National Problem Gambling Helpline is free, confidential and open 24/7, call or text 1-800-MY-RESET (1-800-697-3738), or chat at ncpgambling.org/chat.
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Go deeper
- House Edge Comparison What every common casino bet keeps, and what its pace makes that cost per hour.
- Baccarat Odds & Commission The closest relative of this game, with its three bets priced the same way.
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