Teen Patti

Counted over every one of the 22100 three-card hands in a deck. Where the ace-low run sits among the sequences varies by table, and the rules screen settles it.

Against the dealer. An ante goes down, three cards come to you and three to the dealer, and you either match the ante with a play bet or fold. The dealer needs a minimum hand to qualify, usually queen high; below it the ante is paid and the play bet returned, and above it the better hand takes both. A Pair Plus circle, paid on your own hand whatever the dealer shows, sits beside the ante on most of these tables.

Player A against Player B. Both hands land face up and the only wager is on the higher of the two, with a tie bet alongside and often a bonus on each hand. Nothing is decided after the cards appear. A 20-20 title is this game, and the odds page gives the chance of each side and of a tie.

The ranking is the one place the Indian game and Three Card Poker part company. In Three Card Poker the straight flush sits at the top, in teen patti the trail does, and the difference is a matter of convention rather than arithmetic: there are 48 pure sequences in a deck and 52 trails, so the hand teen patti ranks highest is in fact the commoner of the two. The gap is four hands in 22100, and in play it is felt only on the rare deal where one of each is at the table.

Below those two the orders agree: sequence, then colour, then pair, then high card. A table that prints the Three Card Poker order under the teen patti name exists, and its rules screen is the only place that says so, which is why the how-to-play guide starts every hand there.

Pair Plus pays on your own three cards according to the rates beside its circle, whether the dealer qualifies or not and whether you play or fold. Since the deck fixes how often each hand arrives, those rates are the whole price of the bet, and two tables with different rates are two different prices under one name. On an A-versus-B table the same wager appears as a bonus on each hand.

No figure for those schedules is printed here, because the schedules differ from title to title and a single number would describe none of them. The counts in the ranking table are what any schedule is multiplied through; the same hands, under the Three Card Poker name, have three schedules worked out on the casino poker odds page.

In the Player A against Player B format there is nothing to decide after the bet, and nothing before it either: each hand wins 49.94% of rounds and they tie on 0.11%, so the two sides are the same bet at the same price and only the payouts on the felt tell them apart. The tie bet is a bet on something that happens about once in 903.76 rounds, and its price is whatever the table pays against that.

Against the dealer there is one decision, play or fold, and the right answer turns on what the felt prints as the qualifier and the bonus. A queen-high qualifier with the standard bonus gives a line close to the one settled for Three Card Poker, and the shape is the same: play any pair, any sequence, any colour and any strong high card, fold the weakest high cards. Beyond that shape no figure is given here, since the ranking and the bonus differ between titles.

A free round of a title answers the first question about it, which format it plays, before any money is involved.

Every table below runs on play credits. Open its rules first for the two lines that define it, which format it plays and how it ranks A-2-3. The complete list is on the free teen patti games page.