Boss Media Casino Software
Boss Media, based in Sweden, is one of the most professional organizations in the world of online gambling. They have 2 products, their main casino system, and their ad server product.
Fair Gaming
Boss Media is involved with several organizations that advocate and endorse fair gaming casinos, including the Interactive Gaming Council, which is operated by the online gambling community at large to insure fair gaming standards are met and maintained by all parties involved with online gambling. The company's presence in the organization gives credibility, and further strengthens consumer confidence in current and prospective technologies.
The Boss Media software has been determined by Technical Systems Testing (TST) to meet satisfactory standards in gaming fairness, software reliability, and auditing compatibility, which is additionally executed on a monthly basis. TST is an international authority on gambling systems operations that include both brick 'n mortar and online casino software systems. The company makeup consists of mathematicians, information system analysts, computer scientists and electronic engineers - all trained to diagnose and detect ill-operating software. Consultants to TST are conferred professionals in their respected fields.
Furthering Boss Media's good name in the gambling industry is their compact with Price Waterhouse Coopers. Again, an international authority on gaming audits, the company determined with impartial testing that the Random Number Generator (RNG) operating the software's winner disbursements was in accordance with acceptable percentages, and that all results were unpredictable, random, and entirely fair. Additionally, Boss Media's client online casinos also subject themselves to the monthly audit of Price Waterhouse Coopers, insuring the software's continuing reliability and fairness.
Boss Media also plays a role in the World Lottery Association, holding the status of Gold Contributor. The company's contributions and devotion to sustaining the lottery industry has been recognized by the Association, in addition to Boss Media's own commitment to advocating and exercising standard gaming regulations and business integrity.
Software Features
Boss Media's fully integrated gambling solution includes a casino platform and gaming engine that is customizable to each online casino operators specific needs. Casino games are tailored with user-friendly player interfaces that allow for customized background music, dealer voices and casino lobby/game sound effects. The gaming engine provides realistic 32 bit graphics which resembles fluid robotic motion in real-time playing speed.
The repertoire of games includes standard casino games, fixed odds games such as the infamous keno game, Duck Race, as well as probability games, online bingo, and a poker room devoted solely to traditional games of poker. Boss Media also facilitates lotteries by providing digital lottery tickets which user's scratch off themselves.
Playing Baccarat
You use six decks. On the banker the house edge is 1.06% while it’s 1.24% on the player and a tie gives an edge of 14.44%.
Playing Blackjack
The rules for blackjack are as follows:
- You use six decks of cards
- On soft seventeen the dealer has to stand
- On any of his first two cards the player can double
- Following a split the player can double
- Resplitting is not allowed by a player
- For split aces only one card
- According to United States rules, for blackjack dealer always peeks
So Boss Media in the end removed their rule for no-peeking by bringing out version 3.
Playing Single Deck Blackjack
Well done Boss Media for providing a game with an advantage for players, although this cannot be said for all Boss casinos. Apart from the fact that only one pack is used, the single-deck blackjack has identical rules to those of six-deck. In addition you are allowed to play at a time only one hand. You get a player’s edge of 0.11% with this game. You can add 0.03% to the player’s edge if you keep to the basic strategic exceptions. You can now follow the fundamental strategy used in games for single-decks. You can also take a look at the available single-deck strategic charts.
The Boss Media casinos having single-deck games are as follows:
Casino Club, Pharaoh’s Casino and Player’s Club Casino. Some people consider that Atlantic Casino maintains a single deck game, but apparently here the dealer is permitted to hit a soft seventeen and you are only permitted doubling on nine to eleven leading to a 0.23% house edge.
Playing Caribbean Poker
Using the standard payout table this is an identical game to Caribbean Stud Poker. According to the accepted rules a 5.22% edge is given to the house as well as a side bet too.
The house has an edge on the side bet which is 63.76% minus 2.92% for each of the meter’s ten thousand dollars. At Pharaoh’s Casino it was examined over two years ago and the house edge stood at over one hundred and ten thousand dollars of 31.36% was on the meter. The meter would have to climb to over double this sum for the side bet to have zero house edge.
A lot a people discuss the possibility of scheming with other participants in multi-player mode by interchanging information regarding held cards. However according to one expert, you require a minimum of six participants for gaining an advantage. As Boss Media maintains a mere five seats potential plotters are wasting their energy here.
Playing Casino War
Here you have six decks of cards. This game is played according to the bonus rule whereby after a tie the ante as well as the raise win if there is a tie. Going to war on ties is the right strategic plan to take up. In this game there is a 2.68 percent house edge.
Playing Craps
The programmers working at Boss Media did great work on the game of craps which is not easy to do properly. On all point the grant two times odds. On the pass line and on the odds there is a 0.606 percent joint house edge. They programmers worked on a rule not all companies succeed in doing and that the don’t odds are relatively correct to the sum the player is able to win. Furthermore, 0.455 percent represents the joint house advantage on the laying and don’t pass odds.
The buy and lay wagers incur the five percent commission fee solely on successful wagers and consistently based on the winning sum. Proposition and place to win wagers are provided under the regular rulings. On both two and a twelve, the field bet pays out a two to one payment. The house edge on several of the special Boss Media wagers is as follows:
- 3.33 percent on buy bets on a four and ten
- 3.00 percent on buy bets on five and nine
- 2.73 percent on buy bets on six and eight
- 1.67 percent on lay bets on four and ten
- 2.00 percent on lay bets on five and nine
- 2.07 percent on lay bets on six and eight
You are warned: when you lay the odds following a don’t pass or don’t come wagers, to be in small six dollar sums, ten cents is the shortchange on winnings. As long as it can be divided by six dollars it seems to be a fact unconnected to the wager sum.
Playing Keno
There’s not too much difference between the version 3 not too generous payout table and that of its former version 2.
Playing Killer Whale
>From the point of view of mathematics Keno is an identical game to Five Deck Frenzy or known to some as King of the Deck. For each card there five spinning reels with each maintaining fifty two stops. On the first spin the player is allowed to hold any received card and the remaining discards he has to re-spin. The player is not allowed on the second spin to receive back on the same reel the same card. In short, it is similar to video poker where for each card position there is one deck of cards.
Playing the Money Wheel
This game is identical to the Big Six game using Las Vegas rules with a logo joker and a forty to one payout. However, this game is not provided by all version three casinos. It seems that only Jamaica Bay, Pharaoh’s and Player’s Club provide the Money Wheel.
Playing Pai Gow Poker
The only firm featuring multi-player games with player banking is indeed Boss Media. The banker alternates between the dealer and players and the dealer banks at alternative hands. Assuming that a player doesn’t wish to be bank or the banker’s seat is vacant then the dealer becomes the banker again. Around the table five player positions are located. This means every ten hands the player’s chance to bank occurs. 2.85 percent is the house edge when not banking, and it’s a 0.08 percent house edge in its capacity as banker. The house edge as banker diminishes as the number of players increase. 2.57 percent is the average of the house edge in a game which is one to one.
A house way button is an attractive element for managing your hand, though you can reverse the action once you’ve clicked on it. You have to first take the house way before you can have the chance to view it. The second highest straight is ace, two, three, four and five. Stanford Wong is the founder of the strategic house way action.
Playing Roulette
A 2.70 percent house edge is incurred on every wager using a single zero wheel.
Playing Sic Bo
Sic Bo is an exclusive Player’s Club offer. Variations in payouts indicate that good and mediocre payoffs differ in contrast to other software brands. The six to one payout on a two number combination is worth noting, this results in a 2.78 percent house edge which is a substantial improvement on the 16.67 percent house edge with the regular five to one payoff. You can view payoff tables for perusing payoffs for all wagers and house edge.
On any small, large and two number combinations, the lowest house edge wagers are at a 2.78 percent edge. This game is not provided by all version three casinos. It seems that only Jamaica Bay, Player’s Club and Pharaoh’s offer this game.
Playing Slots
You have access to a rich assortment. All the Boss Media casinos use the identical progressive jackpot, providing a nice variation of progressive games. The idea behind this jackpot is to allow it to expand more speedily.
Playing Video Poker
You’ll find that the majority of casinos offer together with a five-seven-twenty payout table work with jacks or better solely. 95.48 percent is the maximum return you can anticipate when applying your best strategic plan. You can view tables displaying the return of each hand’s probability. Although Pharaoh’s casino may have a better variety, it’s been stated that all these games have be taken up by Boss Media at the end of last year.