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Three Card Poker (also called Tri-Card Poker) is a popular table game at many casinos. Most casinos, both online casinos and land-based casinos, have reasonable pay tables for winning hands. However, as with most casino games, it pays to shop around for the absolute best returns that you can find.
I’ve analyzed the Three Card Poker pay tables from over a dozen online casino software vendors. Eight of them offer the best pay tables — meaning the lowest house edge, and the best returns for the player. The Three Card Poker from these eight online casino software vendors has a 5.32% house edge, assuming that you play with Q6x or better, and fold otherwise. Here is the pay table to look for:
HandRanking
Pair Plus Payout
Straight Flush
40 : 1
Three of a kind
30 : 1
Straight
6 : 1
Flush
4 : 1
One Pair
1 : 1
High Card
Lose
HandRanking
Ante Plus Payout
Straight Flush
5 : 1
Three of a kind
4 : 1
Straight
1 : 1
The eight online casino vendors with this Three Card Poker pay table are as follows:
BoDog Casino also has a sports book and poker room
As I recently blogged, NuWorks is a new online casino software vendor. It is being used by only a few sites, one of which is US-friendly BuzzLuck Online Casino.
BuzzLuck offers 1, 3, 10, 52, and 100 hand versions of Jacks or Better, Deuces Wild, and Joker Poker video poker. Looking at their paytables for single-hand quarter video poker, and assuming optimal play and max coins in:
Their Jacks or Better video poker is the best. They have a full-pay paytable with a return of 99.54%. You won’t find a better Jacks or Better video poker paytable anywhere, either online or in land-based casinos.
Since Black Friday in April 2011, online poker players in the United States have been struggling with not only where to play, but also with how to make deposits and withdrawals from their accounts in a way that minimizes the fees to conduct these transactions. Granted, medium-to-high-stakes players probably worry less about these fees, but for recreational, low-stakes players, fees make a difference.
I’ve written previously about the few online poker rooms that are still accepting new US-based real-money players. As a quick review, they are:
Doyles Room Poker – 100% bonus on initial deposits between $25 and $1000!
Bodog Poker – 110% bonus on initial deposits between $20 and $1000!
Cake Poker – 110% bonus on initial deposits between $25 and $545!
Poker4Ever – 100% bonus on initial deposits between $10 and $500!
I’ve just spent several hours running down as many details as I can about their deposit and withdrawal options, and their associated fees. It is frustrating to say the least. Often times, the information that they have on their sites is out of date, unclear, or is contradictory to information that they have published elsewhere.
So, as far as I can tell, only DoylesRoom offers online poker with no fees for certain deposit and withdrawal methods. Specifically, DoylesRoom offers no-fee Visa deposits ($20 minimum); in addition, they will credit to your account any fees incurred when depositing via Western Union or MoneyGram (both $200 minimum). On the withdrawal side, they offer 1 free check-by-mail per month ($20 minimum), as well as debit cards ($5 monthly fee + per-load and per-use fees).
Remember the good old days of the free (or nearly free) e-wallets like FirePay, NetTeller, eWalletXpress, EcoCard, Click2Pay, QuickTender/UseMyWallet? Me too. The current e-wallets that are accepted by various online poker sites all have 5% or more fees by the time you perform one deposit and one withdraw. The online poker site itself does not charge any fees to use these e-wallets, but the fees to load the e-wallet and then make a withdraw are substantial.
BoDog Poker supports MyPaylinQ, which loads via credit cards at 7% fee, or for free via Western Union (WU). But the only payout option is WU with a $20 MyPaylinQ fee + WU fees.
Cake Poker supports MoneyLineWallet (MLW), which charges $4 per load from your linked checking account. However, Cake Poker cannot payout back to your MLW account. Even if they could, there are MLW payouts fees — via a check for <$1000 (the fee is $10) and via a Bank Wire for larger amounts (with a $55 fee (plus your bank may charge an incoming international wire fee)).
Poker4Ever supports PICCLUB, which has the same load and payout fees as MyPaylinQ.
Quick review: Fastest payments around. Wide variety of banking options, many of which are free or low-cost. Offers lines on non-sporting events as well as all of the most popular American and Eurporean sports leagues and events. Live Chat with an agent if you have any questions.
Languages: English, German
New player bonus: 25% of initial deposit, up to $100 bonus
Quick review: Hip brand. Very fast site allows quick navigation. Lowest rollover requirement on the Internet. Good articles on many sports provide different angles that you may not have considered.
Languages: English
New player bonus: 10% of initial deposit, up to $50 bonus
Quick review: Easy sign-up process. Generous bonuses in addition to the New player bonus. Live Chat with an agent if you have any questions. Live scores available on-site.
Languages: English
New player bonus: 100% of initial deposit, up to $1000 in bonus
As of today at 1 pm EST, Bodog Online Sportsbook returns a 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable from my location in Loveland, OH.
Many if not all online sportsbook customers in the United States may be affected.
Intertops Sportsbook is still rockin’ in the USA. Check them out — they have a very high acceptance rate of credit cards, and a very reasonable withdrawal policy for bank wires and checks.
Quick update: As of 3:48pm EST I see that the Bodog Online Sportsbook is now accessible from my location.
There a few choices these days for US-based real-money online poker players. There are less than a handful of online poker networks that are still accepting new player accounts from US citizens.
Bodog Poker – 5-star rating due to continued, uninterrupted support for US players and provider of an all-in-one online gambling experience
Bodog Poker now has the best sign-up poker bonus in its history at 110%! Make any deposit and you’ll immediately receive an up front cash bonus of 10%. Then hit the tables and for every 10 poker points you earn you’ll receive an additional $1 bonus up to 100% match of your first deposit (up to a maximum of $500). You earn poker points in three different ways:
1. Rake: You earn up to 1 poker point per raked pot.
2. Tournament Fees: You earn 3 poker points per dollar in tournament fees.
3. Time Spent Player: You even earn an additional 1 poker point per hour of play!
Plus, based on thousands of hours of user interaction and feedback Bodog Poker has recently released a slick, new version of their poker software. Check it out today while taking advantage of this limited time offer.
For you video poker enthusiasts, I’ve increased the number of video poker varieties that are analyzed on my video poker page from 15 to 18. The recently-added varieties of online video poker are:
Loose Deuces: There are three online casino software vendors that offer this video poker; the paytables are the same at all of them; the house edge is 0.93%. You can play it at Bodog, Real Time Gaming online casinos like Intertops RED, and Grand Virtual online casinos.
Triple Bonus: Not recommended. The house edge is a whopping 9.98%!
Triple Double Bonus: Double Double Bonus video poker on steriods. There are two online casino software vendors that offer this video poker; the house edge ranges from 0.43% to 1.85%. Unfortunately, Grand Virtual online casinos — where the better paytable is offered — are not available to US residents. You can find the less desirable paytable at BetOnSoft online casinos like Treasure Mile.
Joker Poker online video poker is video poker played with a standard 52-card deck plus a Joker. The minimum paying hand is a pair of Kings or Better, as opposed to a pair of Jacks or Better that is most often the minimum paying hand for video poker games without a Joker. What makes Joker Poker so appealing is that paytables do exist that offer an advantage to the player — if played optimally, of course.
While there is no Joker Poker offered online that has a player edge (also referred to as a +EV, for “positive expected value”), Bodog.comonline casino comes close at 99.97%.
For a complete analysis of all forms of online video poker, see my online video poker page.
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The current e-wallets that are accepted by various online poker sites all have 5% or more fees by the time you perform one deposit and one withdraw. The online poker site itself does not charge any fees to use these e-wallets, but the fees to load the e-wallet and then make a withdraw are substantial.
