Casino dice games in Australia: the law, the odds, and the offshore gap in 2026

A player in Australia who searches for a casino dice game online is not shopping between products. They are walking into a question that has already been settled by the Interactive Gambling Act 2001, and the only honest answer is what the law actually allows, what it does not, and what an offshore site does to the player who uses one. This page works through all three.

Data current as of 29 October 2026, checked against the ACMA’s formal warning register and the regulator pages named throughout.

Australian law on online dice games: what the Interactive Gambling Act 2001 actually says

The Interactive Gambling Act 2001 — the IGA, after the Interactive Gambling Amendment Act 2017 tightened it — makes it a civil offence to supply an online casino game to a person physically in Australia. Craps, sic bo, baccarat and blackjack all fall under that prohibition. So do online pokies. What is licensable is wagering on sports and races placed before the event, lotteries, and keno — in practice most online bookmakers hold their licence through the Northern Territory Racing and Wagering Commission, which regulates 52 of them and meets once a month in Darwin with no full-time staff of its own. The IGA targets the provider, not the player. The person who opens an account is not prosecuted. The site that takes the bet is.

The Australian Communications and Media Authority — the ACMA — enforces the regime. It investigates complaints, issues formal warnings to operators, and can direct Australian internet service providers to block illegal sites. In the round reported on 26 June 2026, the ACMA asked ISPs to block 12 more: 7Signs, ChromaBet, Donbet, Duospin, Freshbet, Slots Gem, Jacks Club, Lucky Start, Pointsbetz.com, Spinrise, Vinyl Casino and Wildsino. The blocking request has now been used 1,751 times against illegal gambling and affiliate marketing websites since the first one in November 2019, and more than 230 unlicensed gambling services have left the Australian market since enforcement was strengthened in 2017. Neither figure is a small one. The 2019-2026 blocking total puts the rate of action at well over 200 sites a year, and that rate has not slowed.

A second reform layer came through Parliament on 19 August 2026. The Interactive Gambling Amendment (Gambling Reform) Bill 2026 added advertising and inducement restrictions that commence on 1 January 2027, so a page written in 2026 is naming a law with a start date rather than a rule already in force. The framework being enforced today remains the 2017 amendments; the inducement rules join them in three months.

What an offshore site does to a player

The individual is not the legal target. They are the unprotected party. An offshore operator is not connected to BetStop, the National Self-Exclusion Register that has been live since August 2023 — BetStop binds only Australian-licensed online and phone wagering services, and an offshore casino is not one. There is no Australian complaints body to approach if a withdrawal stalls, and the operator can be blocked by an ISP while a balance is still sitting on the account. H2 Gambling Capital’s 2025 report estimates that Australians lose about A$3.9 billion a year to illegal gambling sites, and that the share of gambling going through legal channels fell from 74% in 2021 to 64%. The market has moved sideways on the licensed side and grown on the illegal one.

Credit cards, credit-related products and digital currency are banned as payment for licensed online wagering since 11 June 2024, with penalties up to A$247,500 for operators; legal deposit routes are debit card, bank transfer, PayID/Osko and BPAY. A site asking an Australian for a credit card or a crypto deposit is operating outside the Australian rules.

Minimum age is 18. Recreational gambling winnings are not assessable income under section 6-5 of the ITAA 1997, and losses are not deductible — unless the person carries on a business of gambling, which is a position to check with the ATO rather than assume.

Responsible gambling support for someone considering a dice game

A player who wants to keep their play in check has Australian-funded supports to use, and the first of them is independent of any operator.

Gambling Help Online runs the National Gambling Helpline on 1800 858 858, free and 24/7, with live chat on its site. The helpline covers all of Australia, can route a caller to state-level counselling, and is the right first call when gambling stops being a choice and starts being a pattern.

BetStop is the National Self-Exclusion Register, run by the Australian Communications and Media Authority and live since August 2023. A person registers, chooses an exclusion period, and every Australian-licensed online and phone wagering service is required to close their accounts and refuse to let them open new ones for the duration. The wording of that obligation is the limitation: it applies to operators licensed in Australia. An offshore casino that never joined BetStop in the first place cannot be expected to honour a BetStop registration, which is one more reason the offshore gap matters.

State and territory self-exclusion schemes cover the casino floors and the pokies venues. The schemes vary by state, but a player who walks into Crown Melbourne, Crown Perth or The Star Sydney can put themselves on each venue’s exclusion list in person. For someone who is considering a dice game on a licensed floor rather than offshore, that floor-level exclusion is the mechanism that bites.

Financial Counselling Australia and the state problem-gambling services handle the money side when gambling debt has built up. A financial counsellor works out of a community organisation and offers the first free hour; their role is to protect the household, not to push the player into a particular decision about gambling.

How to read a casino dice game’s house edge

A casino dice game is sold on its excitement. It is bought on its house edge, and the difference between the two is the entire decision. Two games on the same floor — or on the same offshore site — can both be “craps” or both be “sic bo” while one bet on one costs the player a few cents per hundred and another costs more than thirty. Knowing where the edge sits is what makes the rest of the page usable.

Craps, bet by bet

Craps is the dice game most readers will meet first, and its Pass/Come bet — the wager that the shooter wins — carries a house edge of 1.41%. Don’t Pass/Don’t Come is the bet against the shooter at 1.36%, slightly lower because the rules resolve a 12 as a push rather than a loss on that side. Both sit in the range that a blackjack player with optimal play can match; both are well inside baccarat’s Banker bet at 1.06%.

Any Craps is the one-roll proposition bet on 2, 3 or 12 coming up on the next throw. It carries 11.11% — close to an eight-times jump over the Pass Line number. The proposition bets in the centre of the craps layout, the ones the stickman chants to get the table’s attention, are priced the way they are for a reason: the player who drifts towards them is paying for the entertainment value of the callout. A game of craps played only on Pass and Don’t Pass is one of the cheapest games in the casino. A game of craps played on Any Craps and the other one-roll bets is one of the most expensive.

“Right” bettor and “wrong” bettor are craps slang for the two sides of the layout. A right bettor plays the Pass Line and follows the shooter’s wins. A wrong bettor plays Don’t Pass and roots for the shooter to seven-out. The numbers are the same on both sides — within rounding — and the etiquette is identical: both are welcome at the same table.

Sic bo, where the bet choice is the entire game

Sic bo is played with three dice. Its name translates as “precious dice,” it has its roots in ancient China, and it was carried to the United States by Chinese immigrants in the early 20th century. The three dice produce 216 equally likely outcomes, but only 56 of those outcomes are distinguishable once the dice are sorted by face value. That gap — 216 versus 56 — is the reason a player cannot reason about sic bo as if every triple were equally likely. The game is sold on its betting grid, and the grid is where the house edge lives.

Big and Small are the bets that a sic bo layout puts in the centre: Big is a total of 11 to 17, Small a total of 4 to 10, with any triple losing in either case. The house edge on Big/Small is 2.78%. That is the line a player wants to be near. Specific Triples — a bet on a single combination such as 1-1-1 or 6-6-6 — can run from 11.6% to 30.09% depending on the ruleset. A 30% edge is a price tag the player should see before they put money on it, because it is the price of a bet that pays 180 to 1 rather than 1 to 1.

Sic bo has no strategy beyond the choice of bet. There is no way to “play” the dice differently from one round to the next, and the layout is the entire game. A player who knows the numbers above knows more than most of the people at the table.

Baccarat, the other dice-derived table

Baccarat is technically a card game, not a dice game — but its bank structure sits beside craps and sic bo in any honest comparison of what a casino table costs the player. The Banker bet carries a 1.06% house edge, the Player bet 1.24%, and the Tie bet 14.36%. The Banker bet pays a 5% commission on a win, which is the price of the lowest edge on the layout; the Tie bet is the trap, paying 8 to 1 on a hand that ties roughly one time in ten.

Punto banco is the baccarat variant played in most casinos today; it was developed in Havana in the 1940s, the casino banks the game at all times, and both hands are played out by fixed drawing rules rather than by player choice. Chemin de fer is the older two-player variant whose name translates as “railway,” so called because it plays faster than the original game. Cards count at face value from 2 to 9, with 10/J/Q/K as zero and aces as one, and hand totals are taken modulo 10.

Blackjack, the closest comparison

Blackjack is the game that beats both Pass Line and Banker when the player plays correctly. With optimal strategy under liberal Las Vegas Strip rules — dealer stands on soft 17, double on any two cards, double after split, resplit aces, late surrender — the house edge is about 0.28%. Atlantic City rules put it at about 0.43%. Those are the only two rule sets where the 0.28% and 0.43% figures belong; another ruleset puts the number somewhere else.

The game itself runs number cards at face value, jack/queen/king at 10, and an ace as 1 or 11, with the starting two-card 21 called a blackjack or a natural. Its immediate predecessor was the English vingt-un, with a related veintiuno described in Cervantes’ Rinconete y Cortadillo around 1601-1602; the modern name dates to roughly 1899, with the Klondike Gold Rush of 1896-99 credited. Australian licensed floors run standard blackjack plus variants: Spanish 21, played without 10s but with liberal player-favourable rules; Double Exposure, where both dealer cards are dealt face-up; Blackjack Switch, where the player can swap cards between two hands; and Super Fun 21, which allows up to four splits. Each variant has its own rule sheet and its own edge — none of the figures above apply to a Spanish 21 layout unless the ruleset says so.

Two-up, the Australian coin-toss game

Two-up is technically a coin game, not a dice game, but it belongs in any honest discussion of what an Australian can play in person. Two coins are tossed from a flat board, with bets on whether both come up heads, both tails, or one of each. It evolved from the 18th-century English and Irish game “cross and pile” and was brought to Australia by convicts. Outside specific exceptions it is illegal — New South Wales permits it only on Anzac Day under the Gambling (Two-Up) Act 1998, played in RSL clubs and hotels. Kalgoorlie in Western Australia hosts Australia’s only year-round legal two-up school. Two-up was legalised in Australian casinos starting in 1973 at Hobart’s casino, and is offered now only at Crown Perth and Crown Melbourne among licensed casinos. The house edge on two-up is 2.5% on the heads-or-tails main bet; the side bets carry more.

Where licensed Australian casino dice games are played

Dice games on Australian casino floors are regulated at the state level, and the rule is the same in every state: the regulator has to approve the game and its rules before it goes on the floor, and the operator has to keep a copy of the approved rules available to patrons on request. Section 66 of the NSW Casino Control Act 1992 is the version of that rule for New South Wales. The Victorian equivalent sits in the Casino Control Act 1991 and runs through the Victorian Gambling and Casino Control Commission, which replaced the VCGLR as Victoria’s casino regulator on 1 July 2022. The VGCCC’s public log of approved changes includes the renaming of Crown Melbourne’s “Perfect Pairs” blackjack side bet to “Crown Pairs” on 23 December 2024, and the introduction of a “Free Bet” option with a new “Pot of Gold” side bet on 25 March 2024.

Crown Melbourne’s baccarat offering is approved under that regime — Traditional Baccarat, Crown Baccarat and 2 to 1 Baccarat are the three variants on the floor. Crown Perth runs two-up. The Star Sydney’s table-game list is published separately. Each casino publishes its own rules and house-edge statements for the games it offers, and those documents are the version of the numbers that a player on the floor can rely on; the wizardofodds.com figures above are reference numbers, and the venue’s own rule sheet supersedes them whenever the two disagree.

A craps table is not standard on every Australian floor — Crown Melbourne and Crown Perth run baccarat and blackjack heavily, with craps on selected tables and at selected times, and the smaller state casinos run what their licence and floor allow. The point that does not change is that a game on a licensed floor has an Australian regulator behind it, and an offshore site does not.

The ACMA’s blocking record: how fast the wall goes up

The arithmetic the ACMA publishes — 1,751 illegal sites blocked since November 2019, with 230-plus operators leaving the Australian market since 2017 — only matters if the reader can see what it means over a year. Between the first blocking request on November 2019 and the June 2026 round reported by igamingbusiness.com, the regulator’s action ran for roughly six and a half years. The blocking total alone puts the rate at well above 200 sites a year across that span, and the recent rounds keep that pace: 12 more added in one June 2026 round. Read as a band rather than a single figure, the rate of action sits in the high two-hundreds to low three-hundreds per year over the full enforcement window, with the offshore sites that the ACMA has named in formal warnings covering a smaller but more visible set.

What that rate means for a player is that any single offshore site can be blocked while a balance is still on the account. A withdrawal request submitted one day can sit in operator review when the blocking direction lands the next; the operator’s email replies stop arriving, and the Australian ISP-side access stops working. The blocking rate is the cost of the offshore gap, measured per year and named as a band so the reader can hold it against any site that asks for a deposit.

The ACMA’s formal-warning register, by operator

The brands below are listed because the ACMA itself issued a formal warning over each one for offering prohibited interactive gambling services to Australians. This is not a ranking, and it is not a recommendation — the IGA makes the supply of an online casino game to a person in Australia a civil offence, and the ACMA’s action register is the list of operators the regulator has named. No bonus terms are given here: the only sources for them were affiliate marketing pages, and an offer published on the same kind of page that gets an operator listed on this register is not an offer a reader can rely on.

RocketPlay

Rocketplay.com.au was formally warned in March 2026, citing Pulsup Ltd, following an earlier 2022 ACMA action against Dama N.V. for the same brand. It promotes an offshore licence, but Australian law prohibits online casino games regardless of such displays.

Level Up Casino

Level Up was formally warned in May 2022, with Dama N.V. named as the operator. While BGaming lists it as a partner, this is purely a commercial affiliation, distinct from any legal or regulatory status.

Woo Casino

Woo Casino was formally warned in March 2025, with the ACMA citing Dama N.V. as the operator. It lacks an Australian licence, relying instead on offshore permits that hold no validity within the country.

Spirit Casino

Spirit Casino was formally warned in May 2025, naming Dama N.V. as the operator. Similar to Woo, it maintains only offshore licensure rather than authorisation from an Australian regulator.

National Casino

National Casino was formally warned in July 2025, citing Consolutetish S.R.L. as the operator. Public records link the brand to the TechSolutions group, a family previously identified by the regulator in 2022.

Bizzo Casino

Bizzo Casino was formally warned in July 2025, citing Consolutetish S.R.L. as the operator, following previous regulatory action in 2022 against TechSolutions (CY) Group Limited and TechSolutions Group N.V.

Ignition Casino

Ignition Casino was formally warned in July 2025, citing Bamboo Media as the operator. Historically, it has used Curaçao-issued offshore licences, which provide no authorisation for operations within the Australian market.

Instant Casino

Instant Casino was formally warned in February 2025, with EOD Code SRL identified as the operator. It uses offshore licencing and payment methods that are inconsistent with Australian standards.

Jackbit

Jackbit received a formal warning under the Interactive Gambling Act 2001 in April 2026, addressed to Ryker B.V.. Jackbit is a crypto-focused site, which puts it on the wrong side of the credit-and-crypto payment ban that has applied to Australian-licensed wagering since 11 June 2024.

Casino Intense

Casino Intense received a formal warning under the Interactive Gambling Act 2001 in April 2025, addressed to Sterplay Holding Ltd. Press reporting by the ABC and the ACMA’s own register both place the brand on the operator-notification list.

Sky Crown

Sky Crown received a formal warning under the Interactive Gambling Act 2001, addressed to Hollycorn N.V.. Hollycorn also operated Blue Leo under the same warning; the formal warning is published on the ACMA’s site as a PDF.

The spread of warning dates and operator names across this list is itself the message: the same group of Curaçao-incorporated companies and the same set of brands are named again and again, and the Australian regulator has been naming them for years.

What this list means for a reader comparing options

There is no comparison to be made between these brands on the basis the reader would normally use — bonus size, payout time, game count. Those comparisons only describe an offshore offer, and an offshore offer is the offer the IGA prohibits. The actual comparison for an Australian player is between an offshore site and no offshore site at all.

A player who wants to play a casino dice game has three honest options. They can play on a licensed Australian casino floor where craps, baccarat and blackjack are approved by the state regulator and where BetStop binds the venue. They can play online through an Australian-licensed wagering provider — which means sports and racing, not casino games, because the IGA does not licence online casino games anywhere in Australia. Or they can play on an offshore site and accept the unverified edge, the Australian-blocked withdrawal risk, the absent BetStop registration, and the chance that the next ACMA round puts their balance inside a block they cannot route around. The third option is the one this page is built around, and the third option is the one with the cost.

The cost of the offshore gap, in concrete terms

The cost is not a marketing claim. It is the consequence of three facts that have all been named above, taken together.

First, the IGA makes the supply of an online casino game to a person in Australia a civil offence. The person supplying the game is the target, but the person playing it is the one whose account gets closed when the ACMA acts.

Second, the ACMA has named 1,751 blocked sites and 230-plus operators gone from the Australian market since November 2019, at a rate of action that sits in the high two-hundreds to low three-hundreds per year over the full window. A site that is up today can be blocked in the next round, and the block lands on the Australian ISP side without notice to the player.

Third, an offshore operator is not connected to BetStop, the National Gambling Helpline’s self-exclusion register, or the state complaints bodies that handle a venue-side dispute. The 1800 858 858 helpline still answers, and the financial counselling services still work with the player regardless of where they play, but the operator-side protections that exist for a licensed venue do not reach an offshore account.

Add the H2 Gambling Capital estimate that Australians lose about A$3.9 billion a year to illegal gambling sites, and that the legal-channel share fell from 74% to 64% between 2021 and 2025, and the picture is the picture the regulator has been drawing for six and a half years. The illegal channel is the larger one by player losses, and the licensed channel is shrinking as a share of the total.

What the page is for

The reader who came to this page to pick between offshore sites will not find a pick. They will find a register of eleven brands the ACMA has named, the dates of the warnings, the operators the warnings were addressed to, and the underlying fact that no Australian state or territory licenses online casino games. The reader who came to the page to understand what a casino dice game costs them will find the house-edge figures for craps, sic bo, baccarat and blackjack, the variants on each, and the rule sheets that change those numbers on an Australian floor. The reader who came to the page to find out whether to play at all has the law, the support services, and the cost of the offshore gap laid out as separate pieces. The job of the page is to make those three sets of facts readable at the same time, because the choice is the same choice whichever set the reader opened the page for.

Frequently asked questions about casino dice games in Australia

What is the house edge on a Pass Line bet in craps?

The Pass Line bet in craps carries a house edge of 1.41%, with Don’t Pass slightly lower at 1.36% because the rules resolve a 12 as a push on that side. Both numbers sit in the same range as baccarat’s Banker bet at 1.06%, and well below baccarat’s Tie bet at 14.36%. The craps figure is for the line bets only — the proposition bets in the centre of the layout, such as Any Craps at 11.11%, are priced much higher.

Why does the Any Craps one-roll bet carry a much higher house edge than Pass Line?

Any Craps is a proposition bet that pays only when the next throw is 2, 3 or 12 — three faces out of 36, with the rest of the payout structure absorbing the rest of the edge. The Pass Line bet is a multi-roll contract that wins on 7 or 11 on the come-out and wins on the point number before a 7. The proposition bet resolves on one roll, so the casino can price it at 11.11% and the player gets the entertainment value of the callout. The difference is the difference between a contract and a single throw.

Are dice games like craps offered on licensed Australian casino floors?

Yes. Craps, baccarat, blackjack and sic bo appear on the floors of Crown Melbourne, Crown Perth and the larger state casinos, with the games and rule sets approved by the state regulator before they go on the layout. Section 66 of the NSW Casino Control Act 1992 is the version of that approval requirement for New South Wales; the Victorian equivalent sits in the Casino Control Act 1991 and runs through the VGCCC. Two-up is offered only at Crown Perth and Crown Melbourne among licensed casinos, and was first legalised at Hobart’s casino in 1973.

What’s the difference between a ‘right’ bettor and a ‘wrong’ bettor in craps?

A right bettor plays the Pass Line and follows the shooter. A wrong bettor plays Don’t Pass and bets against the shooter. The numbers on the two sides are within rounding — 1.41% versus 1.36% — and the etiquette at the table is the same. The slang names the side, not the strategy, and the only practical difference for the player is which way the table is leaning when a point is set.

Can an online dice game legally be offered to someone based in Australia?

No. The Interactive Gambling Act 2001, as strengthened by the Interactive Gambling Amendment Act 2017, makes it a civil offence to supply an online casino game to a person physically in Australia. Craps, sic bo, baccarat and blackjack all fall under that prohibition, and no state or territory in Australia licenses online casino games. What is licensable is wagering on sports and racing placed before the event, lotteries and keno. An offshore site that offers dice games to an Australian player is operating outside the Australian rules, and the ACMA can direct Australian ISPs to block it while a balance is still on the account.

Do all casino dice games use the same house-edge structure as craps?

No. Craps is the game with the gentlest edge on the basic line bets and the steepest edge on the proposition bets — Pass and Don’t Pass sit at 1.41% and 1.36%, while Any Craps sits at 11.11%. Sic bo’s Big/Small bets run at 2.78%, but its Specific Triple bets can run from 11.6% up to 30.09% depending on the ruleset. Baccarat’s Banker bet is 1.06%, Player 1.24%, and Tie 14.36%. Blackjack under liberal Las Vegas Strip rules with optimal play runs about 0.28%, but that figure is the rule-set’s figure and not the game’s figure, and a Spanish 21 or Double Exposure table will move it.