For every 100 the effective payout on a royal goes down, the house edge will go up by 0.308%. If your ante bet is more than 1/500 of the maximum payout, then you will get shortchanged on a royal flush. Large bettors should be wary of maximum payouts. The standard deviation, relative to the Ante bet, is 4.94. The average total amount bet by the end of the hand is 4.152252 times the ante bet. However for comparison to other games I believe the Element of Risk is more appropriate to look at.

What this means, for example, is if you bet $1 and both the Ante and Blind initially, then you can expect to lose 2.185 cents on average. The lower right cell shows a house edge of 2.185% per ante bet.

The following table shows how the Blind, Ante, and Play bets are scored, according to who wins, and whether the dealer opens.

The dealer will need at least a pair to open.

The player and dealer will both make the best possible hand using any combination of their own two cards and the five community cards.*.

If the player already raised he may not bet further.

If the player previously checked twice, then he must either make a Play bet equal to exactly his Ante, or fold, losing both his Ante and Blind bets.

Two final community cards are turned over.

If the player already made a Play bet, then he may not bet further.

If the player previously checked, then he may make a Play bet equal to two times his Ante.

The dealer turns over three community cards.

The player can check or make a Play bet equal to three or four times the Ante.

Two cards are dealt face down to the player and dealer.

The player must make an equal bet on both the Ante and Blind, and can also make an optional Trips bet.

The game is played with a single ordinary 52-card deck.There is a variant played in Auckland, New Zealand, I address following the standard rules. Following are the standard rules as played in the United States.

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