More Live Casino Games at Ladbrokes
Live roulette and live blackjack have rooms of their own. The game shows have theirs. This is where everything else has ended up, and it's the corner of the live casino lobby most people never open.
Worth a look. There's dice, cards, a football theme and a Monopoly board in here, and most of them make sense inside a single round.
Monopoly Roll 'Em
The newest one in the room, and the easiest to pick up.
Two dice, a twelve square board, and a Monopoly top hat that moves to whichever square matches your total. You bet before the roll on Low, which covers two to six, Seven on its own, High for eight to twelve, or straight onto a specific number if you fancy it.
Between the betting closing and the dice landing, houses appear on random squares and add multipliers to them. So the board you bet on isn't quite the board that pays out, which is what keeps it interesting.
Rounds are quick and there's nothing to learn beyond picking a number. If you've never played anything in this section, start here.
Football Studio Dice
Four dice in four shakers, two for Home and two for Away. Highest two dice total wins. You back Home, Away or the Draw.
It's played as two halves, same as a match, so a side that loses the first shake can come back in the second. The studio leans into the theme properly, with a presenter calling it like a result rather than a dice roll.
If you like the idea of a football bet without waiting ninety minutes for it, this is that.
Dragon Tiger
The quickest game in the lobby, and possibly the quickest anywhere.
One card to Dragon, one card to Tiger, higher card wins. You bet on one side or the other, or on a Tie. That's the entire game.
Aces count low here, which catches people out, so an ace loses to everything. There are a few side bets if you want them, on whether the winning card is high or low, or odd or even. Sit down for five minutes and you'll have played a dozen rounds.
Race Track
Another one for watching rather than working out. It sits alongside the dice games in this section and plays out in front of you.
Open the rules from inside the game before your first round, since the betting options are worth a read.
Casino Hold'em and Ultimate Texas Hold'em
Two poker tables live in here, and both are worth clearing up on one point: you're playing the dealer, not the other people at the table. Nobody's bluffing you and nobody else's hand affects yours.
Casino Hold'em starts at 50p. You get two cards, the dealer gets two, and five community cards come out between you. After the first three you decide whether to call or fold.
Ultimate Texas Hold'em runs the same shape with one difference that matters. The earlier you commit to a raise, the bigger that raise is allowed to be. Back your hand before the flop and you can bet more than someone who waits.
Both take a bit more thought than the dice games. If poker is what you're after, there are more tables in the poker room.
Where to start
If you've not played anything here, Monopoly Roll 'Em or Dragon Tiger. Both are a single decision per round and both explain themselves inside one go.
Football Studio Dice next, since the two halves format takes a round or two to click but nothing more than that.
Leave the poker tables until last. Not because they're difficult, but because they're the only ones where the decision you make changes the outcome, and it's easier to learn that when you already know your way around the interface.
Before you play
Every tile shows the stake a table starts at before you open it. Casino Hold'em and Ultimate Texas Hold'em both begin at 50p, and the rest are shown the same way.
The rules sit inside each game. With this section in particular they're worth opening, because no two of these work the same way and the last game you played won't have prepared you for the next one.
It all runs in your browser or the Ladbrokes app, and it's the same table on a phone as on a laptop.
Decide what you're happy to spend before you sit down, and stop there.