Gamblers should remember that wagering small won’t win a large payout in 3 Card Poker, but winnings can be amassed with a pay hand of some denomination devided to gambler’s about 1/4 of the time, which are appropriate odds!

Wagering in 3 Card Poker is up to the kind of risk that gamblers are winning to take. Win/Loss wagering is a more venturesome approach than Ante/Play; to wager conservatively on Ante/Play 2 units are adequate while in Ante/Play a conservative wager is only one unit that can be used on Pair Plus or equal wagers. To wager more enterprisingly in 3 Card Poker, gamblers can wager more on Pair Plus than Ante play, and can even gradually enlarge their wagers as the game continues and they are finding themselves practicing some successful wagers! (more…)

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• Straight Flush. 3 cards of the identical suit in sequence. For example, 5-6-7 of spades.
• Three of a Kind. 3 cards which have the same rank.
• Straight. 3 cards of different suits in sequence.
• Flush. 3 cards of equal suit.
• Pair. 2 cards of the same rank.
• High Card. The highest card you have in your hand.

Ante Bonus

You should know that there is a bonus payout on the Ante wager for concrete hands and this bonus does not demand one more bet. If you may boast of having a straight, 3-of-a-kind or straight flush, than you will get a bonus in any case whether you win the dealer or not. The bonus payout is paid according to the pay table that is posted at the table. The payout list for the Ante Bonus differs from casino to casino but just a little. For a Straight flush you will get five to one or four to one. For Three of a kind you will get four to one or three to one. For a Straight you will get one to one for your Ante wager.

The pay out schedule for the Ante Bonus influences on the overall house edge on the Ante/Play part of the game. A payout of five-four-one has a house edge of about 3.4%. Meanwhile the payout of four-three-one has a house edge of 6.8%.

Strategy

The strategy for Ante part of Three Card Poke does not have any hint at difficulty. In other words, it is very simple. In case when your hand lower than Queen-6-4 your action is to fold. If you have a hand which is better you should proceed and make the Play wager.

If you don’t know how to define whether your hand is higher than Q-6-4 the best way to do it is to begin with the first highest card and parallel it with the Queen. If this card is higher you may play. In this case don’t pay attention on the other two cards. If the first card is a Queen and the second one is better than 6 you shoud play ignoring the ranking of the last card. If the second card is lower than 6 it is not wise to play. In this case you should fold.

Pair Plus

The Pair Plus bet is based only on if your three card hand contains a Pair or higher. It is no difference if the dealer qualifies or even wins you if you have a wager on the Ante Game. If your hand contains a pair or better you are a winner. In case when it doesn’t have a pair you will lose. On average you have a chance to receive a pair in one case from four. The Pair Plus bet is paid according to the pay table fixed by a certain casino.

Easy and Fun

Three Card Poker is very popular mostly because of the simplicity of this game. Since you are not gambling against the other competitors a camaraderie can evolve amongst the gamblers as they root and exhilarate for each other to win the dealer.

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When playing this game you should use a single pack of 52 cards. Three Card Poker in fact represents two games in one. There are the Play/Ante and the Pair Plus games. In the first one you are playing against the dealer in order to know whose hand is the highest. In the second one you are betting on if you will be dealt a pair or better or not. More often than not in casinos you can wager on either of the games but there are the casinos that ask you to make an Ante Bet in order to wager the Pair Plus part of the game.

The Play

There are 3 wagering circles opposite each seat. The top wagering circle is known as Pair Plus where the gambler puts a bet on the pair plus game. There are 2 circles below which are known as Ante and Play for the base game. The game begings with the gambler making a bet in the Pair Plus and/or Ante circle that is equal to the table minimum.

When all the gamblers have made their wagers, each gambler will get from the dealer a three card hand. It is dealt with the help of the Shuffle Master machine. Play starts with the gambler who seats the first to the dealer’s left and goes on clockwise around the table.

Ante/Play

If a gambler has made a wager on the Ante they should decide whether to fold or play after having a glance at their hand. In case when the gambler folds he confiscates their Ante bet. In case when the gamblers want to go on they should make one more wager in the Play circle that is equal to their Ante wager.

When all the gamblers have decided, the dealer will turn his 3 card hand. Now he needs to “qualify” with a hand of Queen or other bur not lower for play to proceed. If his hand does not include a Queen or higher all gamblers still active in the hand will get money equally for their Ante bet and their wager on the Play will be given back to them.

In case when the hand of the dealer does qualify their hand is paralleled with the gambler’s hand. If your hand is higher than the dealer’s one you will get money equally for your Ante and Play wagers. But if his hand beats yours than you lose both wagers. A tie happens very rarely then the gambler wins the hand.

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After the deal has been made it’s up to you, whether you fold or stay. In order to stay you need to put in or raise your bet. First let’s review the situation when player and dealer check their hands. Player wins in case his/her hand is better than dealer’s one or if dealer hasn’t got a hand with ace king high or better. When player decides to raise his bet, the game can continue according to different scenarios.

If you seek best payoffs, you need to create the following situation: you raise, the dealer qualifies with ace king or better, but you still win with your hand. Let’s look what you will get in this case:

• You have a hand that is worse than two pairs. In this case you get paideven money.
• You’ve got two pairs. Your win will be 2-to-1.
• Three of a kind will give you 3-to-1.
• Straight will increase your bet up to 4 times.
• Flush means 5-to-1.
• Full house will give you generous 7-to-1 (experiences players usually try
  to win on full houses).
• Four of a kind hand yields 20-to-1.
• Finally, royal flush means fantastic 10-to-1!

Caribbean Stud Progressive is relatively new type of this game that gains its popularity quickly. The reasons for that are simple - with just $1 you get a chance to win monster payouts. So called progressive side bet means you should put an extra dollar into progressive slot for each hand. If your progressive bet is going, your payouts are increased up to 50-to-1 on flush and 75-to-1 on full house regardless of the fact, has dealer’s hand qualified or no. Certainly, not only these to combinations give you increased payouts. Four of a kind usually yields 100-to-1 win.

If you have ever tried playing progressive Caribbean Stud, you know what all gamblers want here. Those lucky players who manage to get straight flush get as much as 10% of prize pool and royal flush means all prize pool is yours! Progressive jackpots are different and depend on how long they haven’t been hit. Usually this is tenths of thousands of dollars, but sometimes progressive jackpots reach tremendous sums of hundreds of thousands of dollars.

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Caribbean Stud Poker is a very popular game because it is very simple to play it and this kind of poker doesn’t require to study big strategies. So, it is Caribbean Stud Poker that a lot of gamblers prefer to play especcially those who just start to play poker.

You should know that in Caribbean Stud Poker a built-in house edge of 5.26%. It means that for every 100 dollars a gambler bets on, consequently they should lose $5.26. Below we present a some kind of strategy, that is so simple to be called just “strategy”. It will reduce the house’s chances and at the same time will help to verify the sum of bankroll unsteadiness you may face with.

Firstly, we’’ll explain you two common mistakes that an amateur gambler can make:

1) A great deal of gamblers use the strategy of folding on all pairs not more than 5, based on the supposition that it is not worth the risk on a such weak hand. However, if you take into account the odds and likelyhoods that the dealer also faces, you will observe that any pair will consistently beat the dealer over time. Actually, the weakest pair defeats the dealer approximately half of the time.

2) Bluffing is a second common mistake. No one Stud Poker expert will give you an advice to bluff.Your task is to fold on a nothing hand. If your hand doesn’t contain a pair or an A-K then it is better for you wait for the next hand.

Now I’m going to present some strategy basics and explain what you should do . . .
In Caribbean Stud Poker the most important moment when a gambler should make a decision whether to fold or raise the wager once the cards have been dealt. There may be 4 possible sequels once the decision has been made:

• The gambler folds and loses the ante wager.
• The gambler raises and gets just the ante wager because the dealer can’t qualify.
• The gambler raises and gets both the ante wager and the raise wager because the dealer qualified and the gambler’s hand defeats the dealer’s one.
• The gambler raises and loses both the ante wager and the raise wager because the dealer qualified and the dealer’s hand defeats the gambler’s one.

It is clear that in some cases the decision about folding or raising is easy. For instance, in situation when you have a flush or a full house, it is better to raise and wait that the dealer also qualifies. But according to abovelisted basics sometimes you must fold, especcially in case when you are dealt a hand which doesn’t contain a pair or an A-K.

You should remember that the odds are in your favor if you have a pair in your hand, so it is the most wise decision for you to raise. If the gambler was dealt a non-paired hand than he should fold a hand that does not have an A-K. Below we present the chart which help you to see when you should make the raise wager.

Gambler’s Hand Dealer’s Showing
Any Pair Any Card
A-K-Q-J-x  Any Card
A-K-Q-x-x * Must match one of gambler’s cards
A-K-J-x-x * Must match one of gambler’s cards
A-K-10-x-x * Must match one of gambler’s cards

* The reason why the dealer’s upcard must match one of the gambler’s cards is to diminish the possibility of the dealer having a pair.

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Select one gambler who will roll the dice first. The player who rolls the dice is a shooter and he should wager on the game to continue. Other gamblers will wager on the shooter’s play.

Step №2:

Set up the point by having the player who is a shooter roll the dice. In case when he rolls two, three or twelve they have shot craps and lost. Then the next shooter should play. In case when the shooter rolls seven or eleven, that is called as a natural, he wins and shoots again. Any other amount establishes as the point.

Step №3:

Wager on whether the player who shoots will pass, or roll the point again before rolling seven, or not pass, rolling seven before rolling the point. But when you play formal games you may make other wagers. In official craps the main wager is only  the “Pass - Do Not Pass" wager.

Step №4:

You should roll the dice some times until the shooter rolls a seven or the point. In case when the shooter is not able to pass then a new shooter starts his play.

Step №5:

Compose all wages before the next shooter starts play.

Hints and Cautions

“Hard" numbers is a consequence of doubles on the dice. There are two exceptions from a rule: it is double 1s, which has the name Snake Eyes, and double 6s, which is called Boxcars. Double 2s are known as a Hard Four. A majority of other numbers are called "East."

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If you browse the net searching for Jacks or Better advices, you will see several different strategies that can be applied during the game, but usually they are rather complicated and require serious concentration. A mistake in such strategies is a synonym of defeat, that is why it’s preferable to stick to a simpler strategy first. By the way, expected return here is as high as 99.5%!

To apply this strategy, try to play your initial hand according with the following list: (note, when you see “high card” expression, this means jack or higher rank – jack, queen, king and ace)

- full house or better

- four to royal flush

- three of a kind, flush or straight

- four to a straight flush

- 2 pairs

- high pair

- three to royal flush

- four to a flush

- low pair

- 3 to straight flush

- 2 high cards of different suits

- 2 cards of the same suite, 10/J, 10/Q or 10/K

- 1 card of high rank

- discard all cards

Also it’s not bad to retain high cards as when doubled they return your bet. Do not forget about such terms as inside and outside straight. Outside straight means card sequence that can be completed at both ends, for example, 7, 8, 9 and 10. When you can complete card sequence only by finding a missing card in the middle, we get inside straight, for example, 6, 7, 9, 10. Also sequences like J, Q, K, A are also considered inside ones as they are already at extreme end.

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Weak players often make the same mistakes while the stronger ones play better and better. We present this article for the players who just start to go into the rules of the game. It will help you to master the basics of craps and so maximize your chances at the craps table.

The Basics

Tne main aim of the player in this game is to put winning bets and the house to “clothe” them. The player can pick either the “pass” or the “don’t pass” bet. There are some more kinds of bets, which we will introduce to you a bit later.

Craps is the game where except players should be four persons. One person is the boxman. He sits in the middle of the casino crisp table and operates as the referee of the game. The other two persons who sit on either side of the referee are the dealers. Their function is to pay off the winners and accumulate the losers’ chips. The fourth person is the stick man, who stands on the players’ side and collects and distributes the dice.

The players should put their bets and then the stickman names the player who will roll first. This part of the game is called the “roll out” and in case when the player rolls a 7 or 11, then he has rolled a “natural” and this player wins the sum equal to the amount of chips which he put on the pass line before rolling. But in case when he rolls a 2, 3, or 12 on the roll out it means that he loses. In such situation the dealer collect his chips. This is known as “craps”.

The rest numbers on the first roll (4, 5, 6, 8, 9, and 10) denote the player’s “box point”. The player proceed with rolling the dice till that number is made again. But if he rolls a 7 before making his “box point” it meant that he loses.

General Advice and Odds

The best odds (and the lowest house edge) happen when a player plays the line or the come, in other words “to pass” or “not to pass”. It is sometimes occurs that casinos propose double or higher on pass line bets, so try to take advantage of this proposal.

One more necessary part of a sound craps strategy includes an excellent understanding of the smart bets on the table. If you think that it is difficult to realize you are mistaken. The fact is that in craps there are a limited number of bets with the lowest house edge. Below we list all the bets. See the different kinds of proposition bets that are available.

Commonly it is not a bad idea to stick with pass line bets backed by free odds, come bets backed by free odds, and put bets on the 6 or 8. We recommend to learn to hedge your bets when you will make more complex wagers. But you should also remember that it is not the be all and end all of strategies.

Usually a hedge betting approach diminishes the inconstancy of the game emphatically, but at the same time it limits your chances to win. Simply put, if you are a hedge bettor there will be less down-spells that could bottom out your bankroll, but in case when you are winning you will finish with fewer in the end than you would have without hedging.

Proposition Bets

Besides the pass line bets in craps, there are some bets which have different payouts. The short explanation of each bet is stated later:

Seven – The casino at most cases pays out 4 to 1 on a seven, although the real odds are 5 to 1. This makes for a house border of 16.66%. So, it is a poor bet.

Eleven – It is like betting on seven: the casino pays 14 to 1 even in situation when the true odds are 17 to 1, giving the house a weighty edge.

Place Bets – Rolling a 4 or a 10 pay off at nine to five. The correct odds are 10 to 5, meaning a 6.66% house edge. Rolling a 5 or a 9 pay off at seven to five. In this case the real odds are 7.5 to 5, meaning a house edge of 4%. Rolling a 6 or an 8 pay off at seven to six, with correct odds at 6 to 5, meaning a house edge of 1.51%.

Buy Bets – In this situation the player pays a 5% vig and he gets real odds on all numbers. But only those bets which put on rolling a 4 or a 10 are rewarding, because they abate the house edge from 6.66% to 4.76%

Hard Ways – It is possible to make this bate on the 4, 6, 8, and 10, with a pay off of nine to one on the 6 or 8 and seven to one on the 4 and the 10. The house edge is 9.09% and 11.11%, so, non of them is a really good bet.

Come Bets and Don’t Come – They are even money bets. Their house edge is 1.414% and 1.402%.

Pass Line – These bets have similar house edge as the previous ones (come bets).

Don’t Pass – These bets have analogous house edge as don’t come bets, so they are becomes good bets.

The Field – This is a one-roll bet which pays two to one on 2 or 12. The house edge is 5.55%.

Big 6 & 8 – A player gets even money on this kind of bet despite of the correct six to five odds. The house edge in this case is 9.09%.

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