Let It Ride Poker
by
Gayle
Mitchell
For card players, Let It Ride Poker is an ‘added value’ game
online and off.
If you like to play cards, here’s a game that you can add to
your list of ‘games for fun’. This lesson deals with the rules of Let
It Ride poker for
novice players.
I will assume that readers already know the
ranking of hands and are ready to begin
your education.
Let It Ride Poker is based on five card stud and as
many as
seven players can participate on what looks like a regulation blackjack
table.
Players have a payout schedule and betting circles in
front
of them with an opportunity to enter a progressive tournament for an
extra
dollar.
Each player is dealt three cards and the remaining two cards
are community cards that all players use to complete their hand.
The
goal here
is to make a pair of tens or better.
While a pair of tens can be a winning hand, the better hands
are listed below in ranking:
Royal Flush, straight flush, four-of-a-kind (quad), full
house, flush, straight, three-of-a-kind, two pair and lastly pair of
tens or
better.
Rather than beating the dealer as with other card games,
everyone has the same chance for profit.
To begin, all
players place the same bets in each of the
three betting circles before any cards are dealt.
Minimum
bets are usually for
$5; however that initial bet of $15. may decrease to as low as $1 per
betting
circle as the game progresses.
The dealer deals and delivers a three-card stack to each
participating player facedown in front of their particular betting
circle and
finally two cards dealt in front of the dealer become the community
cards.
Now comes the time for your decision as to leave (Let
It
Ride) or take back the first bet away.
If you chose to take
back the first bet, you will scratch
the surface of the table with your cards at which time; the dealer
returns your
bet.
A bit of table etiquette here, don’t take the bet back
your
self, let the dealer do his/her job and return it to you.
Alternatively, should you choose to proceed and Let It Ride,
you will put your three cards face down under your first bet or in
front of the
betting circles.
At this point, you will be shown one of the two community
cards and will make your next decision on this ‘fourth’ card.
You
communicate your decision for this second bet the same
as the first bet. Keep in mind that this is your final chance to take
back any
bets.
Okay, take back the second bet--scratch and the dealer
returns your bet or Let It Ride and move onto the fifth card or what I
call
‘The Big Show’ of the second community card.
Following ‘The Big Show’, the dealer reveals all players’
cards and pays according to bets still riding in each betting circle
and an
established payout schedule.
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It Ride
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