Three Card Poker: Game Rules

The game is performed with the pack of 52 cards (joker doesn’t participate in the game). The pack is shuffled thoroughly and is cut off with a plastic card. After the dealer’s words “Your bets, please” or the gesture, which replaces these words, the players bet in accordance with the rules, outlined on the cloth for this box of the playing table. After the dealer’s words ’The bets have been counted’, the cards are handed out at player’s bets: three cards at each bet.
Then the dealer hands out three ‘dark’ cards to himself. Then the players look through only their own cards at ‘clear’ bets and take the decision to continue the game:
1. They can make ‘pass’.
2. They can continue the game having made confirmation.
The dealer takes the bets ‘ante’-pass in favor of casino and receives the bets left from the remaining players into the game. After the dealer’s words ‘The bets have been made’, the bets considered to be counted finally and the dealer shows his hands. If the dealer has no game, the players’ card combinations aren’t looked through and the pay off of the bet ‘ante’ is performed. If the dealer has a game, the dealer’s cards and the players’ cards are compared to find the superior combination.

Card combinations

Queen is a minimum game, then king follows in superiority, then Ace, then one pair – any two cards equal in superiority. Then card combinations of five card variant and six card variant follow. The players in three card poker can also bet on pair plus. There is a separate box in the mark of the table, on which, a player places his bet, provided he decided to play at bet pair plus. After the dealer’s words ‘Bets have been made’, three cards each are handed out at players’ bets. A croupier doesn’t hand out cards to himself. This bet is not compared with croupier’s cards. When the player has the combination pair or more superior, then the dealer looks through the players’ cards at bets and performs the pay off in corresponding equivalent. The player can play only at bet pair plus or at two bets simultaneously: pair plus and ‘ante’.

Pay off coefficient


One pair 1 to 1
Flash 4 to 1 
Straight 6 to 1
Three 20 to 1
Straight Flash 40 to 1 
Flash royal 100 to 1
Pay off coefficient can vary in different casinos.

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