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| There are two types of bets to consider when discussing strategy for playing Three Card Stud Poker online – the Pair Plus Bet and the Ante Bet – which we’ll discuss in turn. |
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Because this is a simple bet on the value of your three cards, there is no skill to consider here, so the best player strategy is to chase the lowest house edge you can. This is determined by the payout table the online casino you’ve chosen to play. By way of an example here are some sample payout tables to illustrate how the house edge can change due to variations in only one payoff:
| Straight Flush |
40 to 1 |
40 to 1 |
40 to 1 |
40 to 1 |
| Three of a Kind |
30 to 1 |
25 to 1 |
30 to 1 |
30 to 1 |
| Straight |
6 to 1 |
6 to 1 |
5 to 1 |
6 to 1 |
| Flush |
4 to 1 |
4 to 1 |
4 to 1 |
3 to 1 |
| Pair |
1 to 1 |
1 to 1 |
1 to 1 |
1 to 1 |
| House Edge |
2.32% |
3.49% |
5.57% |
7.28% |
From the table above you’ll see that it’s a good idea to find an online casino that can offer a payout table like Casino A’s (e.g. William Hill Casino or Littlewoods Casino to name three we list) if you plan to play this type of bet. |
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| Because of the element of skill in this bet, using a playing strategy that gets closer to ‘perfect play’ reduces the casino’s house edge to the usual theoretical minimum of 1.46%. Although a strategy of only raising if you hold a Queen or better is a good start, a modified strategy that works better still is to only raise if you hold a hand of Queen, 6, 3 or better. To be clear about hand rankings in Poker below a Pair, the highest card wins, and if these tie it’s the second highest card considered next and so on, so if a player’s hand is K, 9, 2 and the dealer has K, 8, 7 the player wins as his 9 beats the 8. |
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