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Michael Shackleford who is also known as
The Wizard of odds
and the author of gambling 102 explains
all about three card poker
He tells you how to play, what that you
can make and the best strategy for
playing
now here's michael Shackleford. We're
gonna talk today
about three card poker. Three card poker
is without a doubt one of the most
successful new
table games in recent years
the thrust three card poker is
it's a three card poker game the player
against the dealer to higher card wins
the way it begins is the player makes an
ante wager
and and an optional pair plus wager . I'll talk about the ante wager first
after the player makes his ante wager, the
dealer will give the player three cards
and himself three cards face down the
player may look at his own three cards
and then he must make a decision he
either has to raise his bet
or fold. If the player chooses to raise
the raise bet must be equal to the ante
wager
after the decision has been made the
dealer will turn over his cards
The dealer needs a queen high
or better to open, otherwise it will be
as if
the dealer folded and the player will win
the ante wager only
If the dealer does open then
it will be a showdown, player's hand
against the dealer's hand
the higher hand wins. If the player has
the higher hand
then both the ante and the raise will
pay
even money if the dealer has the higher
hand they both lose
and in the unlikely event that they're both
exactly the same
it will be a push. Next let's talk about
the pair plus wager
this as a side bet that pays based only
on the poker value
of the player's hand, it doesn't make any
difference what the dealer has.
The pair plus, that pays anywhere from
even money for a pair up to 40-1
for a straight flush. The common pay table
for the pair plus goes 1, 3, 6,
30, 40. Some casinos have a more liberal
pay table that goes 1,
4, 6, 30,40 but unfortunately you don't see
that
very often anymore. Next let's talk about
the house advantage on  three-card poker
The house advantage on the ante bet is
3.37 percent
that means that for every dollar the
player bets
on the ante he can expect to lose 3.37
cents
The house advantage on the pair plus bet
assuming the usual 1, 3, 6, 30, 40 pay table
is 7.28%. If you're fortunate
enough to be in a casino that has the
liberal 1, 4, 6, 30, 40 pay table
that lowers the house advantage on the
pair plus to 2.32 percent
Finally there's something called the
ante bonus
the ante bonus pays if the player has at
least a straight
and he doesn't need to beat the dealer
to get paid for this
it pays anywhere from an equal amount to
the ante wager
up to five times the ante wager depending
upon the player's hand.
Next let's talk about strategy. The
strategy for three card poker
is to raise with a queen, 6,
4 or better it's that simple
if the player has a king high or better
he always raises, a jack high or less
the player should fold but with exactly
a queen high
then you look at the second card if
it's a 7 or higher
the player should raise, five for lower
fold and if it's exactly a six then you
need to look at the third card
then if that's a five or higher raise,
three or less fold and if it's exactly a
four
you should also raise. So Queen, 6, 4 is the worst
hand that the player should raise on.
Finally a word of advice
dealers on all of the
shall we say carnival games or new
poker based games
often don't understand the rules
correctly or make careless
errors in scoring the hands. A very frequent
error made
is the dealer not paying the ante bonus
if the player loses. It's absolutely
a rule in the game that the ante bonus
pays no matter what the dealer has
so if you get a straight and the dealer
has a higher straight and doesn't pay
that ante bonus
stop the game before the dealer takes
the cards away
and demand to be paid. I've seen that
mistake so many times
so with any new poker based game
know the rules of the game cold before
you sit down at it, because I see
dealer errors all the time and they
usually go in the dealers favor
so don't be afraid to speak up
if you think than error has worked
against you.
If you want to know more about me or
hundreds of different casino games
it's all on my website wizardofodds.com and my book Gambling 102
has strategies for the most popular
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