bigbadshawn
05-16-2005, 02:54 AM
Living in South Carolina is quite far from the legal gambling realms. Basically if you want to play poker, you need to play in the back of bars late at night, or with friends. Anyone I made the trek down to Myrtle Beach to go on one of the Casino boats to see if I could find a game there. There was no stud or hold'em game going, but there was a really interesting house game called "3 card poker" or something like that.
The setup was similar to Caribbean stud poker, but with a few advantages. Players place an ante, then are dealt three cards facedown. The dealer deals himself 3 cards facedown. If you believe that you have a better hand than the dealer, you place a bet equal to the ante. The Dealer must have a queen for their hand to qualify. If it does and you win, you win equal to the ante and your second bet. If they do not qualify and you win, you win the size of your ante.
The interesting part is the side-bet which is the "pair or better" bet. Regardless of the outcome, if you make this bet, and you get a pair or better you get odds. Any pair is 1-1, 3 card st8 is 6-1, 3 card flush is 9-1 3 of a kind is 30-1, and 3 card straight flush is 40-1.
I sat down at this game and would usually pu $5 on the ante, and $10 on the pair plus every time I played. I ended up winning about $200.
My question is, how to go about figuring the odds on a game like this, because I looked for it elsewhere(at websites for Vegas and AC casinos) and could not find another game like this.
Have I found a goldmine here? I mean it just seems like the house odds are unbelievably low on this game. How should I go about figuring out my chances in a game like this?
The setup was similar to Caribbean stud poker, but with a few advantages. Players place an ante, then are dealt three cards facedown. The dealer deals himself 3 cards facedown. If you believe that you have a better hand than the dealer, you place a bet equal to the ante. The Dealer must have a queen for their hand to qualify. If it does and you win, you win equal to the ante and your second bet. If they do not qualify and you win, you win the size of your ante.
The interesting part is the side-bet which is the "pair or better" bet. Regardless of the outcome, if you make this bet, and you get a pair or better you get odds. Any pair is 1-1, 3 card st8 is 6-1, 3 card flush is 9-1 3 of a kind is 30-1, and 3 card straight flush is 40-1.
I sat down at this game and would usually pu $5 on the ante, and $10 on the pair plus every time I played. I ended up winning about $200.
My question is, how to go about figuring the odds on a game like this, because I looked for it elsewhere(at websites for Vegas and AC casinos) and could not find another game like this.
Have I found a goldmine here? I mean it just seems like the house odds are unbelievably low on this game. How should I go about figuring out my chances in a game like this?