3 Card Prime with Loose Deuce
May 14th, 2017 at 7:26:52 AM
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My local casinos has opened a new game. It is a 3 card poker variant called 3 Card Prime with a Loose Deuce. Instead of a pairs plus bet it has a Pairs Bonus bet along with an Ante and Play bet. There are side bets for Prime and All 6. The dealer qualifies with a Q or the ante bet pushes and the play bet wins. Player wins ties.
The pay table for the play bet is (all are to 1): Mini Royal 10, Straight Flush 6, Trips 5, Straight 2, Flush or less 1. There is also a bad beat that pays Straight Flush 12, Trips 10 Straight 4.
The Pair Bonus bet pays: Mini Royal 50, Straight Flush 40, Trips 30, Straight 6, Flush 3, Pair 1. When the game starts the dealer deals out a single card face down. If this card turns out to be a deuce then the Pair Bonus pay table changes to: Mini Royal 75, Straight Flush 50, Trips 40, Straight 8, Flush 4 and Pair 2.
The pay table for the All 6 bet is: Royal 1000, Straight Flush 200, Quads 50, Full House 25, Flush 15, Straight 10 and Trips 5.
The prime bet pay table is: Players cards all the same color 3 to 1, all 6 cards the same color 4 to 1.
Other then dealing the first card face down the game is dealt the same as 3 card poker.
Is this game in any Vegas casinos? What is the optimal strategy for this game? What is the house edge on the prime bet and what are the odds of getting 3 or 6 cards the same color?
The pay table for the play bet is (all are to 1): Mini Royal 10, Straight Flush 6, Trips 5, Straight 2, Flush or less 1. There is also a bad beat that pays Straight Flush 12, Trips 10 Straight 4.
The Pair Bonus bet pays: Mini Royal 50, Straight Flush 40, Trips 30, Straight 6, Flush 3, Pair 1. When the game starts the dealer deals out a single card face down. If this card turns out to be a deuce then the Pair Bonus pay table changes to: Mini Royal 75, Straight Flush 50, Trips 40, Straight 8, Flush 4 and Pair 2.
The pay table for the All 6 bet is: Royal 1000, Straight Flush 200, Quads 50, Full House 25, Flush 15, Straight 10 and Trips 5.
The prime bet pay table is: Players cards all the same color 3 to 1, all 6 cards the same color 4 to 1.
Other then dealing the first card face down the game is dealt the same as 3 card poker.
Is this game in any Vegas casinos? What is the optimal strategy for this game? What is the house edge on the prime bet and what are the odds of getting 3 or 6 cards the same color?
May 14th, 2017 at 7:54:35 AM
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Some answers:
1. The Prime bet has a 21.27% chance of the player getting a three-card one-color to pay 3:1, and a 2.26% chance of getting a one-color hand with a dealer match of that color, to pay 4:1. It's a popular bet because it doesn't correlate to a player's win or loss: a player may have a bust hand j-9-2 "red", and recoup, or a straight flush, and add to his winnings. House edge is 3.62%.
2. The loose deuce was an idea to provide a little more excitement and anticipation on the pair plus bet with a bonus card multiplier that doesn't cost the house too much.
3. Player wins ties was added as a player feature because it was so inexpensive to offer to the player that to deny it would have been cheap, and it is also a plus over the competition that doesn't offer it. Galaxy adds this player wins ties to any game/many games where it is a reasonable bonus to the player.
4. The Bad Beat feature is automatically included on the man bets for free; lose with a straight or better and you recoup your losses from a rare bad beat. Nice feature, and it's on other Galaxy Games, too (Heads Up Hold 'em, Four Card Frenzy, etc.)
I haven't seen it in Vegas, but hope to.
1. The Prime bet has a 21.27% chance of the player getting a three-card one-color to pay 3:1, and a 2.26% chance of getting a one-color hand with a dealer match of that color, to pay 4:1. It's a popular bet because it doesn't correlate to a player's win or loss: a player may have a bust hand j-9-2 "red", and recoup, or a straight flush, and add to his winnings. House edge is 3.62%.
2. The loose deuce was an idea to provide a little more excitement and anticipation on the pair plus bet with a bonus card multiplier that doesn't cost the house too much.
3. Player wins ties was added as a player feature because it was so inexpensive to offer to the player that to deny it would have been cheap, and it is also a plus over the competition that doesn't offer it. Galaxy adds this player wins ties to any game/many games where it is a reasonable bonus to the player.
4. The Bad Beat feature is automatically included on the man bets for free; lose with a straight or better and you recoup your losses from a rare bad beat. Nice feature, and it's on other Galaxy Games, too (Heads Up Hold 'em, Four Card Frenzy, etc.)
I haven't seen it in Vegas, but hope to.
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