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Casino game

This article is about the modern casino game. For the traditional game, see

Three-card brag

Three Card Poker Designers Derek 🌧️ Webb Years active 1994 Genres Casino

game

Three Card Poker is a casino table game based on poker. It was designed 🌧️ in 1994 by

Derek Webb.

History [ edit ]

A Three Card Poker table in a casino aboard the Norwegian

Dawn cruise 🌧️ ship

The casino variant of Three Card Poker was first created by Derek Webb

in 1994 and patented in 1997. Webb's 🌧️ goal was to create a version of poker that played

with the speed of other table games. It was important 🌧️ to Webb that he got the correct

mix of three important factors for any casino game: the game rules were 🌧️ easy to

understand, the payouts were large enough to attract players, and the house edge was

enough that casino owners 🌧️ would be interested in adopting the game.

Webb established a

business called Prime Table Games to market the game in both 🌧️ the United States and

United Kingdom.[1] The British Casino Association, now known as the National Casino

Industry Forum (NCiF) suggested 🌧️ that Webb gain some experience in the US first, since

the UK had regulations against such a table game and 🌧️ his application was not strong

enough to convince regulators to make significant changes to their rules and

regulations for a 🌧️ new game.

The first to adopt the game was Barry Morris, Vice

President of Grand Casino Gulfport in Mississippi, after Webb 🌧️ had unsuccessful sales

pitches with casino owners in Reno, Las Vegas, and Atlantic City. A key aspect of

Webb's offer 🌧️ to Morris was to stand on the floor to train the dealers himself, as well

as watch to make sure 🌧️ the game was being played correctly. United Kingdom gambling

regulations were changed to allow the introduction of Three Card Poker 🌧️ in 2002.

Prime

Table Games continued marketing Three Card Poker until 1999, when Shuffle Master

acquired the rights to the game 🌧️ outside the British Isles. The sale was prompted by a

lawsuit filed that year in US federal court by Mikohn 🌧️ Gaming, the then-owners of

Caribbean stud poker, alleging patent infringement; Shuffle Master agreed to defend

that litigation as part of 🌧️ the purchase. Subsequently, in 2007, Prime Table Games

showed in a countersuit that the 1999 litigation was based on invalid 🌧️ patent claims;

Mikohn (which had since been renamed as Progressive Gaming International Corporation –

PGIC) settled the suit by payingR$20 🌧️ million.[2] Further, Prime Table Games filed suit

against Shuffle Master in 2008 alleging in part that Shuffle Master had undisclosed

🌧️ knowledge that the PGIC claims were invalid prior to the 1999 purchase; that lawsuit

was later settled for overR$2 million.[3]

Rules 🌧️ [ edit ]

Three Card Poker is played as

heads-up between the player's hand and the dealer's hand. After all ante 🌧️ wagers are

placed, three cards are dealt to each player and the dealer. Players have a choice to

either fold 🌧️ or continue in the game by placing a "play" wager equal to their ante.

Hands are then exposed and wagers 🌧️ resolved.[4]

The dealer's hand must be Queen high or

better for the dealer hand to play. If the dealer does not 🌧️ play, then there is no

action on play wagers and ante wagers are paid 1 to 1. If the dealer 🌧️ does play, the

dealer and player hands are compared. If the player hand loses, both the ante and play

wagers 🌧️ are lost. If the player hand wins, both the ante and play wagers are paid 1 to

1. If the 🌧️ hands are tied, then there is no action on either wager.[4]

Additional

optional bets are offered. The Pair Plus wager is 🌧️ a bet that the player's hand will be

a pair or better. The Pair Plus wager wins if the player 🌧️ has at least a pair of twos.

The payoff applies regardless of the dealer's hand, as the Pair Plus wager 🌧️ is not in

competition against the dealer's hand. Some casinos also offer an Ante Bonus, which is

paid on the 🌧️ ante wager for a straight or better. The typical Ante Bonus paytable pays 5

to 1 for a straight flush, 🌧️ 4 to 1 for a three of a kind, and 1 to 1 for a straight.

Like the Pair Plus 🌧️ wager, the Ante Bonus pays regardless of whether that hand beats the

dealer's hand.[4]

Hand ranks [ edit ]

Straight flush

Three of 🌧️ a

kind

Straight

Flush

Pair

High card

Examples of poker hand categories in descending

order

Hand Ranks of Three Card Poker[5] Rank Description Frequency Probability Straight

🌧️ flush Three suited cards in sequence 48 0.22% Three of a kind Three cards of same rank

52 0.24% Straight 🌧️ Three cards in sequence 720 3.26% Flush Three suited cards 1,096

4.96% Pair Two cards of same rank 3,744 16.94% 🌧️ High card None of the above 16,440

74.39% Total hands - 22,100 -

Probability of Queen high or better is 69.59%[citation

🌧️ needed]

Variations [ edit ]

Some venues have added a wager called Prime in United

Kingdom casinos and the game is known 🌧️ as Prime Three Card Poker. The Prime wager is

optionally placed before cards are dealt and pays on the color 🌧️ of the player cards. If

all three cards are the same color the payoff is 3 to 1. However, when 🌧️ included with

the dealer hand if all six cards are the same color then the payoff is increased to 4

🌧️ to 1.

Another variation is "six card bonus", in which the players are given a payout

based on the best five-card 🌧️ poker hand that can be made using any combination of the

player's three cards and the dealer's three cards. Payoff 🌧️ ranges from 5 to 1 for three

of a kind to 1000 to 1 for royal flush. Payoffs are paid 🌧️ regardless of whether any

other bets pay.