3-card poker
Gamblers in the casinos are offered many games with poker like rules and one such popular game is the 3-card poker which can be played either as a pairplus game or as an ante-and-play game. Anyone opting for a game of 3-card poker may play one or both the kinds of game. The history of the 3-card poker game is old and goes back almost three centuries. The American version of the game is an improvisation of the British card game of brag and also similar in certain respect to the Indian gambling game of teen patti. However, 3-card poker and teen patti has some differences in their hand ranking as a straight flush hand and a three of a kind hand are interchanged and moreover, in the Indian game version the high card and none are one and the same.
The pairplus game played by gamblers opting for 3-card poker is a simple game which gives payout to players holding a pair or better. Based on combination and probability, it is obvious that there are a fixed number of ways how three cads can be drawn from a standard deck of 52 cards. So, while there are 48 possible combinations for getting a straight flush, which is the best hand possible in such a game, it has also a lower percentage of being drawn by any player. The payout won by the player holding a straight flush will vary from 35-to-1 to 40-to1 to 50-to-1 according to the game table in casinos. The next best hand, three of a kind, can give a payout of 25-to-1 or 30-to1 and the odds become lesser as the hand held by players become straight, flush or pair, with a hand with a pair receiving even money of 1:1. Depending on the payout table in the casino where the game is being played, house advantage may range from 2.32% to 7.28%.
