Originally Posted by QuietLion
The house advantage in double-zero Roulette is 5.4%. Most shipboard casinos these days have good Blackjack rules that bring the house edge down to about 0.5% with basic strategy. Another possibility is betting the Don't Pass with full odds on craps.
When casinos have this type of chip there is often a way to change them into slot tokens as well.
I'll be on the Voyager of the Seas on the 18th for the World Poker Tour so I'll report back what I find.
QL
Basic odds on craps are 1.414% against you on the pass or come line, and 1.38% or 1.40% against you on the don't pass or don't come line, (depending on whether or not you count the push as a bet). Still expensive miles. But if you take full odds, the percentage comes way down. How far depends on how much they will let you bet on the odds part of the bet. Double odds brings your mathematical expectation down to less than 0.4%, which represents cheap miles. (It is a mathematically even bet.) A stragegy would be for you and a partner to each bet the same amount at the same time on both the pass or come and the don't pass or don't come lines, taking full odds each time. The only time you lose any money is when the don't pushes (1 out of 36 times).
All of this is dependent on your getting paid when you win in chips convertable to cash, not just a credit to your shipboard account.