e-Vegas Exchange has a surprisingly good collection of contributors and regular articles about Vegas and gambling, despite being overpopulated with banner ads for online casinos. Mark Pilarski writes this little gem about casinos increasing their edge on three-card poker:
Ordinarily, Three Card Poker is a better play than Caribbean Stud (-5.3%), better than Let it Ride (-3.5%), and even better than Pai Gow Poker (-2.5%).
As to the best bet in Three Card poker itself, it depends, Hilda, on whether like your cards or not; I'll rephrase that-on whether you should like your cards. The house edge is 3.37% against the Ante alone, but only 2.01% against your Queen-6-4, if you decide to make the Play bet. With a Pair Plus wager, the casino advantage is slightly higher at 2.32%.
But just when you think you've got your juju flowing over the low house edge of Three Card Poker, take a quick look upstream. Most casinos are now tightening the screws on Three Card Poker by reducing the payoffs on straight flushes and three-of-a-kinds. It's screamingly worse on the Pair Plus payoffs. For example, by making a crafty change on what you're paid for a straight flush from 40-to-1 to 35-to-one, and nibbling down three-of-a-kinds from 30-to-1 to 25-to-1, the house edge jumps to 4.58%, making this originally good game go bad, way bad.
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