Let It Ride (card game)

Easy Poker or Let It Ride is a poker variant that is offered in casinos. In this category, the participants are not playing against each other, but each participant 's betting it for themselves against the casino - in principle, therefore, it is a two-person game.

The phrase Let it ride means in general in the American that a player can use his stand together with the profit after winning a game, so he offers Paroli. The designation Let It Ride for this particular poker variant is protected, which is why the game is offered by most casinos under different names.

The game

The following description follows the regulations of Casinos Austria.

The rules

Easy Poker uses a packet of French playing cards played to 52 sheets at a roughly semi-circular table similar to blackjack. On the straight side sits the croupier ( dealer, banker ), against him the places for up to seven players (Pointeure ).

Before the start of a game each player places according to the respective limits of three equally high stakes on the marked fields (set rings).

Then mix the croupier's cards, then pull it off and gives each player three cards face down to. Two other so-called common cards in the two fields are intended to set In addition to these three cards in the course of the game yet. The cards are common to all players as the fourth and fifth card of their poker hand (cf. Texas Hold'em and Omaha Hold'em ).

After receiving the first three cards each player checks his cards - the player may not show their cards to each other - and decides whether to withdraw his application on the landing ring number one, or let stand ( let it ride ) to.

Now the dealer turns over the first common card, and the players decide in a similar manner with respect to their bets on the betting ring number two.

Once declared, all players, the dealer reveals the second Common Card; the players put their cards on the table, and there is the payment according to the following table:

The minimum is usually three times for 5 €, the maximum of three 100 €, the maximum payout is capped at 15,000 €.

Strategy

If you play as a punter by the following strategy, so you minimize the advantage of the casino.

After obtaining the first three cards, one should be use on the landing ring number one only appear if you hold one of the following combinations:

• A winning combination, ie a high pair ( tens or higher) or any three of a kind,
• Any three cards that can be added to a royal flush,
• Three consecutive cards of any suit, except for A-2- 3 and 2-3-4,
• Three cards at a distance of four values ​​, which can be supplemented to a straight flush, provided it is located including at least one high card (ten or more), such as 10-8-7 in a color that
• Three cards at a distance of five values ​​, which can be supplemented to a straight flush, provided there are including at least two high cards (ten or more), such as B-10 -7 in a color.

After the dealer has the first Common Card pitched, keep your use on the landing ring number two only appear if you hold one of the following combinations:

• A winning combination, ie, a high pair ( tens or higher), any two pair or three of a kind
• Any four cards that can be supplemented to a royal flush,
• Any four cards that can be supplemented to a straight flush,
• Any four cards that can be supplemented to a flush,
• Any four cards that can be supplemented by two pages to a straight when including is a high card, such as 10-9-8-7

If you hold one of the following combinations, so you can freely leave to stand or withdraw the application, in relation to the expected value of both game modes are equivalent:

• Any four cards that can be supplemented by two pages to a straight when including is no high card, such as 9-8-7-6
• Any four cards that can be supplemented to a straight A- K- D- B-10, such as A- B- D- 10th

Bank benefit

Placed the players before the start three bets to € 10 and he adheres to the instructions above, it decreases in funding to their use of initially € 30 € 12.38 and gewärtigt an expected loss of 35.1 cents. The house edge ( expected value of the casino per set, € ) is thus 2.83%.