You are correct that the most important strategy for a face up game would be to bet your low hands when you see a lot of A,K Q because the dealer is less likely to qualify. In fact, I have worked out strategies for what to do in normal 3CP as a function of the number of people who fold (because you know they do not have an Ace or King and probably not a queen), versus the number of people who bet.

I listed all the possible hi-card hands that were K-Q-T or lower - that's all you need. NB As I'm based in the UK I was assuming 1 4 5 bonus payments, but that doesn't affect which hands you call or fold, just the base House Edge.Ĭharlie, I have worked it out in my distant past. If this was true, wouldn't it be easier to play the game face up and perhaps allow people to play two hands (although many are happy to play the second hand blind or just the sidebets on it.) every hand Q63 or lower), you only fold 27.9% of the time and the House Edge is reduced from 3.37% to 2.62% (EOR from 2.01% to 1.52%.) In summary this means, rather than folding 32.6% (i.e. Occasionally you sometimes fold good Qxx hands. If you had full knowledge of the other players' hands you should call most low hands about 19% of the time, presumably this is because you see enough high cards to make it more likely the dealer will not qualify. Has anyone else tried to work this out without running billions of simulations and analysing every hand.Īfter a bit of playing around it seems you probably always call Kxx and better. (btw I'm not intending to take advantage, it's just a mathematical challenge.) So I was wondering if they played it face up, how much of a problem it would be, if you knew all other people's cards (say 6 to a table, so you'd know 15 more cards than usual). Just out of interest, as I've yet to go down to my local casino, I'm wondering how they'll deal games like 3-card Poker, where Players cannot touch the cards.

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