Dead or alive saloon live is Evolution’s Wild West card game: you bet on which of 52 playing cards the dealer turns up first, while bonus cards drawn before it build a pot that starts at 20x, with Doubles and Bounty Hunts along the way. The RTP is 97.02%. For the wider market picture, start at our online casino Canada hub.
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| Trait | Detail |
|---|---|
| Studio | Evolution, styled on NetEnt’s Dead or Alive slot |
| Deck | 104 cards: 52 playing cards and 52 bonus cards |
| Bets | Single cards, suits, ranks or combinations |
| Base pay | 20x if a playing card comes first |
| Bonus cards | 20x, 30x, 50x, 100x, Double, Bounty |
| RTP | 97.02% |
| Top win | 2,000x |
| Limits | From £0.10 to £260 at one UK casino |
What is dead or alive saloon live?
A card-guessing game with multipliers. Live Casino Comparer calls it an Evolution card game that pays multipliers if you correctly pick the first playing card or suit the dealer reveals.
Lottomart calls it a unique live card-guessing game in a Wild West saloon.
Live Casino Comparer compares dead or alive saloon live to roulette, with cards instead of a ball and bigger payouts.
Who makes dead or alive saloon live?
Evolution. Live Casino Comparer and Lottomart both credit Evolution with the game, and Lottomart says it was released in November as a live card game show.
Live Casino Comparer says the studio takes its styling from NetEnt’s Dead or Alive slot, a brand in the Evolution group.
Evolution’s own promo art carries the “Powered by Evolution” mark beside the dead or alive saloon live logo.
What does the studio look like?
A low-lit Wild West saloon. Lottomart describes a green baize card table, wooden floors, stools, tables and cowboy props, with a presenter in period costume.
Live Casino Comparer calls the saloon studio impressive and welcoming.
Gameplay footage shows leaded glass windows, a staircase and a bull’s skull behind the dealer in dead or alive saloon live.
How does a round work?
Bet, deal, stop at the first playing card. Live Casino Comparer says you bet on cards during about 15 seconds of betting, then the dealer turns cards from a fresh shoe until a playing card appears.
- Pick cards, suits or ranks on the grid.
- Betting closes after about 15 seconds.
- The dealer turns cards one at a time.
- Each bonus card drawn adds to the pot.
- The first playing card ends the round.
- Bets on that card win the pot.
Lottomart says the round ends once a regular card is drawn in dead or alive saloon live.
What is in the 104-card deck?
52 playing cards and 52 bonus cards. Live Casino Comparer lists the bonus cards as 3 Doubles, 6 Bounties, 20 cards at 20x, 19 at 30x, 3 at 50x and 1 at 100x.
| Bonus card | Count | Share of bonus cards |
|---|---|---|
| 20x | 20 | 38.5% |
| 30x | 19 | 36.5% |
| 50x | 3 | 5.8% |
| 100x | 1 | 1.9% |
| Bounty | 6 | 11.5% |
| Double | 3 | 5.8% |
The six types add up to 52, the same number as the playing cards in dead or alive saloon live.
What can you bet on?
Cards, suits, ranks or everything. Live Casino Comparer says you can bet on single cards, a whole suit or all of one number, and Lottomart adds that you can bet on all the cards.
The grid shows the 52 cards in four suits: Hearts, Clubs, Diamonds and Spades.
Each chip on a card is a separate bet in dead or alive saloon live.
What is the base pay?
20x. Live Casino Comparer says the base payout is 20x if the first card dealt is a playing card, which it describes as 19:1 plus the stake back.
Bonus cards drawn before the first playing card add to that 20x.
A $1 bet on the right card returns at least $20 in dead or alive saloon live.
What do the multiplier cards do?
They add to the pot. Lottomart says the 20x, 30x, 50x and 100x cards add their value to the potential win, so a 20x pot with a 20x card becomes 40x.
The 43 multiplier cards average about 28.4x.
Live Casino Comparer says the single 100x card is the biggest single multiplier in dead or alive saloon live.
What does a Double card do?
It doubles the pot so far. Live Casino Comparer says a Double doubles the existing win amount, and multipliers drawn after it are not doubled unless another Double comes.
Lottomart gives the example of a 20x pot becoming 40x.
There are three Doubles among the 52 bonus cards of dead or alive saloon live.
What is a Bounty Hunt?
A shooting bonus. Live Casino Comparer says a Bounty card starts an animated round where you shoot a target to reveal a multiplier added to the total, and Lottomart says three targets hide multipliers from 10x to 200x.
You pick one of the three.
Six of the 52 bonus cards are Bounty cards in dead or alive saloon live.
Does the order of bonus cards matter?
Yes, for Doubles. Live Casino Comparer says a Double doubles only what is already in the pot, so a Double drawn first turns 20x into 40x, while a Double after a 30x card turns 50x into 100x.
Multiplier cards drawn after a Double are simply added.
A late Double is worth more than an early one in dead or alive saloon live.
How often does the first card end the round?
Half the time. With 52 playing cards in 104, the first card is a playing card 50% of the time, and the pot stays at the 20x base.
Live Casino Comparer says you are more likely to see a playing card first, or one to three bonus cards, than long runs of bonuses.
Plan for the 20x case, Live Casino Comparer advises, in dead or alive saloon live.
How many bonus cards come before the first playing card?
Just under one on average. Counting the shuffled 104-card deck, a round draws at least one bonus card 50% of the time, at least two 24.8%, at least three 12.1% and at least four 5.9%.
| Bonus cards before the playing card | Chance |
|---|---|
| None | 50.0% |
| Exactly 1 | 25.2% |
| Exactly 2 | 12.6% |
| Exactly 3 | 6.3% |
| 4 or more | 5.9% |
The average is 52 divided by 53, or 0.98 bonus cards a round in dead or alive saloon live.
How often does each bonus card show up?
Rarely for the big ones. A given bonus card comes before every playing card 1 time in 53, so the 100x card appears in about 1.9% of rounds, at least one 50x in 5.5%, at least one Double in 5.5% and at least one Bounty in 10.3%.
| Bonus card | Chance of appearing in a round |
|---|---|
| 100x (1 card) | 1.9% |
| 50x (3 cards) | 5.5% |
| Double (3 cards) | 5.5% |
| Bounty (6 cards) | 10.3% |
Each figure counts where the cards fall against the 52 playing cards in the shuffled deck of dead or alive saloon live.
What is the average pot?
About 50x. At a 97.02% RTP, a bet on one card that wins once in 52 must average about 50.45x per win, so that is the average pot.
Half of all pots are the 20x base.
The bigger pots pull the average up to about 50x in dead or alive saloon live.
How often does one card win?
Once in 52 rounds on average. A single card is the first playing card 1.92% of the time; Lottomart gives a hit rate of 1 in 52.1.
52 rounds pass without a win on that card about 36% of the time, and 100 rounds about 14%.
A single-card bet is the swingiest way to play dead or alive saloon live.
What does betting a whole suit do?
Wins a quarter of the time. A suit covers 13 cards, so one of them is the first playing card 25% of the time.
Thirteen $1 chips return at least $20 on a win, a profit of at least $7.
A rank bet covers four cards and wins 7.7% of the time in dead or alive saloon live.
What does covering every card do?
Wins every round, but often at a loss. Covering all 52 cards always catches the pot, but a 20x pot returns $20 on $52, a loss of $32, as Live Casino Comparer notes.
The pot needs 52x to break even.
On average the pot is about 50x, so covering everything returns 97.02% in dead or alive saloon live.
What is Live Casino Comparer’s half-deck plan?
Cover 26 cards. Live Casino Comparer covers half the cards for about a 50:50 chance, and says that with one 20x bonus the 40x pot turns 26 units into a 14-unit profit.
Covering 36 cards leaves a 4-unit profit and covering 12 a 28-unit profit on the same 40x pot.
Without a bonus card, the 20x pot loses on 26 cards in dead or alive saloon live.
What bet size does Live Casino Comparer advise?
No more than one 20x card can win. It says not to bet more across the board than a single 20x multiplier card would pay, to make the bankroll last.
On a 40x pot, that caps coverage near 40 cards.
Live Casino Comparer warns the game will eat your money if you are careless in dead or alive saloon live.
Is there a winning strategy?
No. Live Casino Comparer says there are no winning strategies, only playing strategies to manage a bankroll, and suggests treating the grid like roulette: patterns, favourite numbers or suits.
There is no right or wrong way, it says, just the risk of how much you cover.
Every card has the same chance of coming first in dead or alive saloon live.
Do past results help?
No. Live Casino Comparer says the shoe is shuffled after each game with all cards back in, so earlier results cannot predict the next, and Lottomart confirms the deck is shuffled every round.
That rules out card counting.
Live Casino Comparer finds the multiplier history useful only for a sense of the average pot in dead or alive saloon live.
How does the dealer deal?
From a freshly shuffled shoe. Live Casino Comparer says the dealer deals from a shoe holding all 104 cards, turning them over one by one, and Lottomart says the presenter draws until a regular card appears.
Bonus cards are added to the pot as they are turned.
The first regular card settles every bet in dead or alive saloon live.
What statistics does the game show?
Previous rounds. Live Casino Comparer says Evolution shows the results of previous rounds with the card value and the multipliers.
Adding the multipliers and dividing by the rounds gives an average pot, it says.
Our arithmetic above puts the long-run average near 50x in dead or alive saloon live.
What is the RTP?
97.02%. Live Casino Comparer, MrQ and Lottomart all give an RTP of 97.02%, which Live Casino Comparer says is quite close to what you get playing roulette.
The house edge is 2.98%, or $2.98 per $100 over time.
Every card carries the same 97.02% return in dead or alive saloon live.
Over 100 rounds at $1 on one card, that is about $2.98 lost on average, with about two wins along the way.
What is the top win?
2,000x, per Lottomart. Lottomart says wins can reach up to 2,000x the stake, while Live Casino Comparer says the pot has no fixed maximum beyond a total payout cap of 500,000.
A $1 bet at 2,000x returns $2,000.
Live Casino Comparer says 100x-plus wins are the realistic prize in dead or alive saloon live.
How volatile is the game?
Low, per Lottomart. It lists the game’s volatility as low, and by the deck count half of all pots end at the 20x base.
Single-card bets still swing, with a win once in 52 rounds.
Wider coverage lowers the swing further in dead or alive saloon live.
What are the table limits?
£0.10 to £260 at Lottomart. Lottomart lists a minimum bet of £0.10 and a maximum bet of £260 for the game in its UK lobby.
Limits differ by casino.
The limits panel of dead or alive saloon live shows the range in force at each site.
Is there Autoplay?
The sources disagree. Live Casino Comparer says Autoplay can repeat the same bet on the same cards for several rounds, while Lottomart lists Auto Play as no.
Live Casino Comparer finds Autoplay helpful for bankroll management.
The game menu shows whether Autoplay is offered for dead or alive saloon live at your casino.
How does it compare with roulette?
Closely. Live Casino Comparer says the most similar game is roulette: betting on one card is like a straight-up number, with a dealer and cards instead of a wheel and ball.
Per our roulette odds page, a straight up pays 35 to 1 on a 2.70% chance; here a single card pays at least 19:1 on a 1.92% chance.
The bonus cards are what give dead or alive saloon live its bigger pots.
How does it compare with Lightning Roulette?
Similar idea, different engine. Live Casino Comparer says the multipliers set the game apart from plain roulette, as in Lightning Roulette and XXXtreme Lightning Roulette.
Here, the pot builds from cards drawn before the result.
The 97.02% return of dead or alive saloon live sits close to roulette’s.
How does it compare with Crazy Balls?
Both are Evolution draws. Per our crazy balls live page, that game draws 20 of 60 balls onto bingo cards with Crazy Time bonuses.
Dead or Alive Saloon draws cards until the first playing card.
Both reward prediction with multipliers, and dead or alive saloon live is the simpler of the two.
How does it compare with the NetEnt slot?
Same brand, different game. Per our NetEnt slots page, Dead or Alive is known as a volatile slot, while Live Casino Comparer says the live game borrows its Wild West styling.
The live game has no reels.
The saloon look and the Bounty theme link dead or alive saloon live to the slot.
Who is dead or alive saloon live for?
Roulette players who want multipliers. Live Casino Comparer says the game is simple to play and understand and plays like roulette, while Lottomart points to the Wild West setting and the chance of bigger pots.
It suits players who like choosing their own coverage.
Players looking for long bonus rounds will find the rounds of dead or alive saloon live short and quick.
What does a good round look like?
Two or three bonus cards before the playing card. By Lottomart’s rules, a 30x card followed by a Double turns the 20x base into 100x, and a later 20x card lifts it to 120x.
Rounds like that come about one time in eight or less.
Live Casino Comparer says two or three bonus cards can produce 100x-plus wins in dead or alive saloon live.
What do reviewers think?
Positive. Live Casino Comparer likes the simplicity and says it is probably the game most likely to deliver a 100x multiplier, and Lottomart calls it a thrilling blend of live action and Wild West style.
Live Casino Comparer warns not to expect 10 to 15 bonus cards before a playing card.
It says the dual deck is a nice twist in dead or alive saloon live.
What do the sources disagree on?
The top win, the Bounty and Autoplay. Lottomart gives a 2,000x top, while Live Casino Comparer cites a payout cap of 500,000; Lottomart puts Bounty targets at 10x to 200x, while Live Casino Comparer says the Bounty Hunt can add 100x.
- Autoplay: available per Live Casino Comparer, not offered per Lottomart.
- Odds wording: Live Casino Comparer calls a single card a 52:1 chance; the chance is 1 in 52.
This page follows Lottomart’s figures for the Bounty and top win of dead or alive saloon live.
Can you play on mobile?
Yes. Lottomart says the game is playable on multiple devices, including desktop computers and smartphones, over a secure internet connection.
The 52-card grid sits at the bottom of the screen.
Lottomart says colourful chips of different values sit below the card grid in dead or alive saloon live.
Where can Canadians play dead or alive saloon live?
At casinos that carry Evolution. Google.ca results show LeoVegas’s Ontario page for the game, along with MrQ, Paddy Power and Gala Bingo pages, and Live Casino Comparer names PlayOJO as its pick.
In Ontario, the operator’s registration is the first thing to check.
The game help shows the pays, bonus cards and RTP in force for dead or alive saloon live at each site.
The card above is Casinova, number 10 on our homepage list. Check that the lobby carries Dead or Alive Saloon Live before a first deposit, and set the offer against the other listed casinos on our page on casino bonus codes.
What does a Canadian player check before playing?
Four items: the limits, the bonus card list, the RTP in the game help and the operator’s registration. All four are visible before the first deal of dead or alive saloon live.
Set a money limit and a time limit first. Players in Ontario who want support can call ConnexOntario at 1-866-531-2600.
Our page on responsible gambling practices for Canadians covers limits and tools.
Which live games are worth reading next?
Four pages sit closest to this one. Each covers another live game with multipliers or a simple prediction, and each one stands on its own.
Dead or alive saloon live is Evolution’s saloon card game where you pick the first of 52 playing cards and bonus cards build a pot from 20x, with an average near 50x and an RTP of 97.02%.