Three card poker rules – how to play three card poker.
Three card poker online may be my favorite game. To play three card poker is a pleasure, the rules are simple and the strategy is quite elementary.
Three card poker differs by the fact that only 3 cards are dealt, they aren’t exchanged till the end of the game and their quantity doesn’t raise.
Of course, highest combinations are not the same than in other types of poker games. These are three card poker combinations from highest to lowest:
Straight Flush – 3 cards of the same suit in sequence.
Three of a Kind – 3 cards of the same rank.
Straight – 3 cards in sequence of mixed suits.
Flush – 3 cards of the same suit.
Pair – 2 cards of the same rank.
High Card – the highest card in your hand.
When people play three card poker, they can do three types of bets. Ante is bet before card dealing, the Bet is made after dealing, if the player doesn’t fold. Pair-plus is a special bet, which is also made before dealing. As a rule highest and lowest possible bets are set in advance, but not the maximal payments.
When ante and pair-plus are made, the dealer distributes three cards to each player and to him-self. Having seen the cards, the player can either fold and lose the initial bet (it goes to the house), or raise it by putting in the game box a corresponding number of chips. Unlike the ordinary oasis poker, the amount of the bet here is equal to the one ante and not to the two antes, cards are not exchanged and the dealer doesn’t open his cards. There is one more advantage: as usual you can use all free boxes on the tables, look to all your hands before deciding and even exchange information with other players.
After all players on the table make a decision, the showdown take place. First the dealer exposes his hands, then other players. As a result one of the next variants happens:
If the dealer has no high combination (he must have one queen at least) – you get winning in the amount of one ante regardless cards on your hands;
if the dealer has the combination higher than yours – you lose all money from both boxes;
if the dealer has the combination equal to yours – you take all your own chips, that you have bet;
at last, if you have best hand than the dealer – both bets are paid 1:1
if you have one of the high combination you take the bonus, that is in the amount relative to ante: straight-flush – 4:1, three of the kind – 3:1, straight 1:1. This bonus is paid to you regardless dealer’s cards.
In the case, when you bet pair-plus and don’t fold during the game, you are supposed to be also given a bonus regardless dealer’s combinations. Relative to combinations it can be: straight flush – 40:1, three of the kind – 20:1, straight – 5:1, flush – 4:1, pair – 1:1.
However, there are different variants of three card poker and the raising of bets, as well as amount of payments can considerably differ from those that have been described above.
As for three card poker strategy, you need to consider there is much lesser probability that combination from pair and higher comes on.
Here you can find simple three card poker tips:
- always play if you have the combination “Queen, 6, 4″ or higher one,
- fold in all other cases.