Dragon Tiger (Live): the Pragmatic Play table in figures
Pragmatic Play announced its live Dragon Tiger table in April 2021; Dukat.bet's lobby shows it as Dragon Tiger (Live). Two independent reviews give matching RTPs, and an eight-deck maths calculation produces exactly the same.
| Item | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Table and studio | Dragon Tiger (Live) – Pragmatic Play | Dukat.bet lobby, 11 October 2026 |
| Launch | April 2021 | official studio page (news) |
| Decks | 8 decks | two independent sites |
| What you bet on | Dragon, Tiger or Tie | official studio page |
| What decides | the higher card; ace is lowest (1), king highest (13) | two independent sites |
| Dragon / Tiger payout | 1:1 | two independent sites |
| Tie | 11:1 | two independent sites |
| Suited Tie | 50:1 | two independent sites |
| Dragon/Tiger bet on a tie | half is returned | independent site + mathematical constant |
| RTP | Dragon/Tiger 96.27%, Tie 89.64%, Suited Tie 86.02% | two independent sites + mathematical constant |
| Table limit | we do not publish it | not published |
A word of warning on sources: the studio's website also lists a slot under the same name, with a different RTP. That game is not this live table, so we did not use its figures.
One card for the Dragon, one for the Tiger: how the cards rank
Dragon Tiger has no adding up, no third card and no drawing chart. Each side gets exactly one card, and its rank counts, not its suit.
The order: ace (1), 2, 3 … 10, jack (11), queen (12), king (13). So the ace is low here, which players coming from poker or blackjack easily miss. A Dragon ace always loses to a Tiger two.
If both cards share a rank, it is a tie. Suit (hearts, diamonds, clubs, spades) matters for one bet only: the Suited Tie, when two identical cards land, such as two sevens of diamonds.
The game is the one-card cousin of baccarat. There, two hands' totals are compared; here, two cards.
On a tie you keep half: the price of 11:1 and 50:1
The key rule in Dragon Tiger is not about winning but about the tie. When the two cards share a rank, half of a Dragon or Tiger bet comes back and the other half is lost. That is where the house edge comes from.
With eight decks a tie comes up roughly once every thirteen or fourteen rounds. The three bets are priced like this:
| Bet | Payout | RTP | House edge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dragon or Tiger | 1:1 (half back on a tie) | 96.27% | 3.73% |
| Tie | 11:1 | 89.64% | 10.36% |
| Suited Tie | 50:1 | 86.02% | 13.98% |
So the two main bets cost more than three times the baccarat Banker bet (1.06%). Dragon and Tiger mirror each other; neither is ‘better’.
The 11:1 applies to the Pragmatic Play table. We did not check it on other studios' Dragon Tiger tables.
One Dragon Tiger round, from closing to half your stake back
A round is very short, so it is worth walking through once in slow motion.
- Betting window. While the countdown runs you place chips on Dragon, Tiger, Tie or Suited Tie. Say 1,000 HUF on Tiger and 100 HUF on Tie. The limit is shown here.
- Closing. Time runs out and the layout locks.
- Deal. The croupier places one card face up on Dragon and one on Tiger. Both are queens: hearts and spades.
- Settlement. Equal rank, so a tie. The 100 HUF Tie bet pays 11:1, +1,100 HUF. Of the 1,000 HUF on Tiger, 500 HUF comes back and 500 HUF is lost. Suited Tie would not have won, as the queens differ in suit.
- Balance. +1,100 − 500 = +600 HUF this round.
- Next round. The score board updates and the betting window reopens almost at once.
The last step is the point: the pause between rounds lasts only a few moments.
100 Tiger bets in money: what 3.73% means
Illustrative calculation (not Dukat.bet data): say you put 1,000 HUF on Tiger in each of 100 rounds. Turnover is 100,000 HUF.
A tie comes in about 7–8 rounds, each costing 500 HUF. In the remaining rounds Tiger and Dragon win roughly half each, which evens out over time. The expected loss is therefore 3.73% of turnover, about 3,730 HUF.
The same number of rounds on baccarat Banker would cost about 1,060 HUF. The difference lies in how ties are handled: in baccarat the main bet comes back in full on a tie, here only half.
That is an average, not a forecast. Any given hundred rounds can go far better or worse, and nothing assures a profit.
Why a Dragon Tiger session runs out so quickly
Dragon Tiger has no third card and no mid-round decision. What is left: bet, two cards, result. That makes it one of the fastest live formats.
Speed in itself is not the problem. But the 3.73% applies to every single round, and you fit many more rounds into an hour here than at blackjack or roulette. Small stakes, many rounds — the total ends up bigger than you would think.
To know in advance what turnover an evening means, the session limits page works with stake × rounds. And if you notice yourself trying to ‘wait out’ a tie, or raising the stake after a losing streak, read the pace and tilt page.
Four studios, one name: what the Dragon Tiger tiles do not reveal
Besides the Pragmatic Play table, the Dukat.bet lobby runs Dragon Tiger from other studios: Ezugi Dragon Tiger, Winfinity's Dragon Tiger and Instant Dragon Tiger, and SA Gaming's Diamond Hall Dragon Tiger and Emerald Hall Dragon Tiger. We have not checked their rules.
- The tie payout. 11:1 is Pragmatic Play's rule. Another table may differ, so check its help screen.
- The half-stake rule. Likewise: do not assume every table treats ties the same way.
- Deck count and RTP. For the other studios we found no two matching sources.
- The limit. We do not publish it; it shows only on the open table.
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