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Best Online Sites for Three Card Poker

Monday, October 31st, 2011

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:

Good luck at the tables!

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Quick Strategy Series: Three Card Poker

Sunday, September 14th, 2008

Three card poker is an increasingly popular casino table game. At online casinos, you may see the game referred to as Poker Three. Whatever its name, the basic idea of the game is to make a high-ranking poker hand with three cards; beating the dealer’s qualifying hand is also profitable.

Players post an inital Ante bet and an optional Pair Plus bet. After receiveing three cards, players decide to make a final Play bet, or else forfeit their Ante and Pair Plus bets. The decision to make the final Play bet or not is a simple one:

  • If your hand is a Q-6-x or better, make the Play bet.
  • Otherwise, fold.

Complete rules of three card poker are available, as well as 100s of sites where you can play three card poker.

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