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1. Bet: $1.50 - $400 Theoretical Prize Payout: 95.62% - 96.49%.Demo game: the min and max bet can differ from the actual game play, however the paytables and the theoretical prize payout remain the same.
2. As we said before, there are a few different options to choose from when you want to play casino for free. To play casino for free through games in demo version is a very good option for new players, but will keep Let It Ride Poker Jackpots In Atlantic City you entertained for a long Let It Ride Poker Jackpots In Atlantic City time, since it can not, in demo mode you will no longer have to win.
3. In fact, the only time you should ever tango with the 3 Card Bonus side bet when playing Let It Ride is at the Borgata casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey. There, the wager uses a slightly better 50 / 40 / 30 / 6 / 4 / 1 pay table, and that single alteration from 3 to 4 lowers the house edge all the way down to 2.14 percent.

Letting it ride on a low pair (9's or less) is definitely a bad bet. The house edge on a low pair with three cards is 6.37%. With four cards the house edge jumps to 45.83%. So don't be tempted to let it ride on low pairs.

Table game tournament strategy is very complicated. However, briefly, I would bide by time in the early hands of each round. Sometimes your opponents will all burn themselves out and you can advance without any effort. When it gets down to about five hands to go you'll need to make your move on any players way ahead of you. This is the time when you want to pull into first or go bust trying. It is also good to wait to save your big bets for when you act AFTER your biggest competitors.

This increases the house edge from 3.506% to 3.737%.

If you could see both the community cards, then your edge would be 42.06%. I don't know the advantage for one card, I'm afraid, but I am sure it would be high, especially if the second one were exposed.

Yes! In Mastering the Game of Let It Ride by Stanley Ko a section is devoted to this topic. Ko explains how the odds change if you have a 4-card straight or flush and can see extra cards. He does not indicate such adjustments at the three-card stage of the game. You can find this booklet at that Gambler's Book Club.

There are 2 directions to complete a 2-3-4 straight (A-2-3-4-5, 2-3-4-5-6), yet 3 directions to complete a 3-4-5 straight (A-2-3-4-5, 2-3-4-5-6, 3-4-5-6-7).

Assuming you are not peeking at any other player's cards, it doesn't make any difference. Have a good time in Reno.

You make a good point. In terms of what to expect in the short run then you should ignore the highest hands. I know video poker players sometimes disregard royal flushes when determining their short-term expectations. However, as a mathematical purist, I can't help but consider every possible outcome, regardless of how unlikely.

No. Unless you can actually see the other player’s cards and use that information correctly in your strategy then the number of other plays makes no difference.

Good question. In full play Three Card Poker the house edge on Pairplus is 2.32% and on Ante & Play is 3.37%. However the element of risk on Pairplus is still 2.32% while in Ante & Play it is 2.01%. I believe if comparing one game to another the element of risk is more appropriate. In other words comparing the expected loss to the total amount bet. In this case Ante & Play has the lower element of risk and is thus the better bet. So I would disagree with the writer of the article you mention. According to my house edge index the element of risk in Let it Ride is 2.85%, higher than that of Ante & Play.

What is the increased house advantage for letting the following hands 'ride' on Let it Ride?

1) three unsuited cards (A-K-Q and K-Q-J for example)
2) low connected straight flush cards (3-4-5)
3) something like J-10-7 of diamonds, spread of 5.

Thanks Mike, great site as usual (I’ll say it every time)

Thanks for the compliment. First, you’re supposed to 'let it ride' with suited 3-4-5 (three consecutive suited cards) and suited 7-10-J (three to a straight flush with 2 high cards and 2 gaps). My own strategy states this. Here is the effect on your expected return for each of the other hands, measured in units. For example if you bet three units of $1 raising on unsuited A-K-Q would cost you 18.62 cents.

Unsuited A-K-Q: -0.186224
Unsuited K-Q-J: -0.104592

This pay table has a house edge of 13.07%, the lowest I have heard of for Let it Ride. Still a sucker bet though.

For the sake of simplicity let’s assume each hand is dealt from a fresh deck. The probability of a four of a kind is 13*48/combin(52,5) = 624/2598960. The probability of exactly 3 out of 40 four of a kinds is combin(40,3)*p³*(1-p)³⁷ = 1 in 7378135, where p = 624/2598960. So that is more like a 1 in 7 million shot.

In 'Mastering the Game of Let it Ride' Stanley Ko addresses this topic. Ko says, most of the value in seeing other player’s cards is when you have a borderline hand of 4 to an outside straight with no high cards or JQKA. Viewing a single card should not encourage you to 'let it ride' but seeing a card that won’t help you should cause you to 'let it ride.' Ko doesn’t indicate that this can result in a negative house edge, and I doubt this chips away at the house edge much at all.

With a low pair your expected value on the initial bet is -7.40%. So if your original bet was $10 then letting it ride with a low pair will cost you an extra 74 cents.

The probability of a four of a kind in any given hand is 13*48/combin(52,5) = 0.0002401. Let’s assume in two hours you can play 120 hands. The probability of exactly two four of a kinds would be combin(120,2) × 0.0002401² × (1-0.0002401)¹¹⁸ = 0.000400095 = 1 in 2499.41.

It plays just like the real thing. The casinos use a shuffling machine, which I understand to be very good. My program shuffles the deck after every hand too.

It will be difficult finding $5 blackjack on the Strip on a weekend. You’ll probably have to settle for a low-roller casino like the Riviera, Sahara, Frontier, or Circus Circus. It will be a lot easier downtown. Let It Ride is slowly fading away, but if you find it the minimum unit is usually $5.

Please see the following table. This table also shows the house edge assumed for player rating purposes. My source is an executive with a major Strip casino here in Vegas, who wishes to remain anonymous.

Hands per Hour and Average House Edge

Games	Hands/Hour	House Edge
Baccarat	72	1.2%
Blackjack	70	0.75%
Big Six	10	15.53%
Craps	48	1.58%
Car. Stud	50	1.46%
Let It Ride	52	2.4%
Mini-Baccarat	72	1.2%
Midi-Baccarat	72	1.2%
Pai Gow	30	1.65%
Pai Pow Poker	34	1.96%
Roulette	38	5.26%
Single 0 Roulette	35	2.59%
Casino War	65	2.87%
Spanish 21	75	2.2%
Sic Bo	45	8%
3 Way Action	70	2.2%

I had an interesting occurrence at a major high-end strip property and I was wondering how I should have handled the situation. A friend and I were the only players at a Let It Ride table. After playing for a while, the blue deck started getting stuck in the shuffler. After a while, the dealer asked the floor manager to replace the deck. Before replacing the deck, the dealer counted the cards, only 51 cards! Several recounts, looking all around, calling in another supervisor etc failed to produce the missing card.

My friend was down about $300 and I was up around $150 when all this happened. Since we are both ’full comp’ at the property, I did not raise a stink about this. The dealer seemed very worried about her job and we did not joke around at all. The supervisors and floor person did not say anything to us or offer any compensation. More or less, after a while, they replaced the deck and continued the game.

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Personally, I figured that the odds say the missing card was a low card and it probably helped our odds of winning. My friend (who was down) thinks differently, that he should have been compensated. In the end, we did not raise the issue with the floor person. Was that correct? Should we have been aggressive given the situation? And, I am curious, assuming it was a random card, likely a low card, wouldn’t that actually have helped out odds during the time it was gone missing? Regards!

If you take a single card out of the deck randomly, the odds of Let it Ride do not change. This would be true of any casino game I can think of, where the cards are shuffled between hands. Without knowing the missing card, the effects of removal of bad cards and good cards exactly cancel one another out. So, complaining is not mathematically justified. Even if they found that it was a high card that got lost, it was still accidental. It could have just as easily been a low card that got lost. If it happened to me, I would have let it slide. I think an apology from somebody would be called for, but they probably didn’t want to, lest it give you more bargaining power if you did make a big scene over it.

For the benefit of other readers, in Let it Ride the player starts with three bets, and may pull back two of them if his cards don’t look good. If the minimum were $10, he would start with $30 in bets. If the player has a possible royal flush, proper strategy says to always stay in the game. A royal flush pays 1000 to 1. With a royal flush, the player would win 1000 to 1 on three bets of $10, or a total of $30,000 on bets of $10. However, the maximum aggregate payout is $25,000, so the 1000 to 1 is impossible to achieve, unless the player deviates from proper strategy, and doesn’t raise with hopes of royal.

I completely agree with your point. In my opinion it is false advertising to offer a win that is impossible to get under proper strategy. So, to Harrah’s I say “shame on you.” They can afford to pay a $25,000 jackpot.

Here in Nevada, an aggregate payout rule must be in plain view, and it cannot apply to wins less than 50 to 1 (Nevada Revised Statute 5.190). So, unless there is another statute I don’t know about, this would be legal here too. However, I am not aware of the same kind of impossible jackpot here. The maximum payout is also usually $25,000, but some of the classier casinos have higher maximum payouts. For example, the Wynn is at $75,000. The minimum bet here is usually $5, so as long as you stay at bets of $8 or less, the win for a royal will stay under $25,000. With a $1 side bet, the win would be exactly $25,000, so they would be allowed to deduct any wins of other players against you. My advice is to never bet so much that the aggregate payout rule might apply, on principle alone.

I use your great site quite often, thanks! I found a new pay table at the Borgata in Atlantic City, for the Three Card Bonus bet in Let It Ride. They implemented these very recently, to the point the dealers were struggling to remember the new odds. Here is the new pay table:

Mini Royal: 50 to 1
Straight flush: 40 to 1
Three of a kind: 30 to 1
Straight: 6 to 1
Flush: 4 to 1
Pair: 1 to 1

I am curious how it impacts the overall house edge.

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That is not bad for a side bet. I show the house edge is 2.14%.

I asked two Las Vegas casino executives about this. The first one said their policy on all games with a jackpot-based side bet is to first pay the primary bets (i.e. not the side bets) to the full odds. The aggregate cap only applies to the side bets. In the event the side bet wins exceed the aggregate maximum, then winners are paid on a pro-rata basis, according to their win. For example, if the aggregate is $50,000, player 1 won $50,000, player 2 won $10,000, and player 3 won $100, then each player would get paid $50,000/($50,000+$10,000+$100)=83.19% of what he would get without the limit. The second casino executive, with another company, said the same thing except they pay the side bets in full and pro-rate the primary bets.

Let's assume 60 hands per hour, and a total of four players at the table. So, in 90 minutes that would be 1.5×60×4=360 hands. The probability of a straight flush is 4×9/combin(52,5) = 36/2,598,960 = 0.000013852. The probability of exactly two straight flushes in 360 hands is combin(360,2)* 0.000013852²×(1-0.000013852)³⁵⁸ = 1 in 81,055. Stranger things have happened.

According to Beyond Counting (Exhibit CAA) by James Grosjean, if you can see every player card in a 7-player game, and make perfect use of the information, the house edge drops, but not more than the 3.51% house edge. As I state in my Let It Ride page, I would eyeball the table for the cards you need in the two borderline plays, four to an outside straight with no high cards, and four to an inside straight with four high cards. That would be of very marginal help.

Introduction

Let it Ride is among the first of the wave of new casino games, starting in the late nineties. It is a simple poker-based game where the player is paid based on his five card hand only. No dealer hand to worry about. The twist is that as the cards are revealed the player has the opportunity to decrease his bet if he doesn't like his cards. As of 2013 Let it Ride is still out there, but its numbers are decreasing.

Rules

1. Player makes three bets of equal size.
2. Dealer gives player three cards.
3. Player may pull his first bet back or 'let it ride.'
4. Dealer deals the first community card, to be used by all players.
5. Player may pull his second back or 'let it ride.'
6. Dealer deals the second community card, to be used by all players.
7. Player is paid according to the poker value of his five cards, remaining bets, and the posted pay table.
8. Side bets are usually available, which are explained below.

The following is the standard pay table most casinos follow. All wins are on a 'to one' basis.

Let it Ride — Standard Pay Table

Hand	Pays
Royal Flush	1000
Straight Flush	200
Four of a kind	50
Full House	11
Flush	8
Straight	5
Three of a kind	3
Two pair	2
Tens or better	1
Loser	Loss

The pay table for this and 15 other known Let it Ride pay tables can be found in my Let it Ride appendix 3.

Strategy

The following strategy is for the standard pay table.

With three cards you should only 'let it ride' if you have:

• Any paying hand (tens or better, three of a kind)
• Any three to a royal flush
• Three suited cards in a row except 2-3-4, and ace-2-3
• Three to a straight flush, spread 4, with at least one high card (ten or greater)
• Three to a straight flush, spread 5, with at least two high cards

With four cards you should only 'let it ride' if you have:

• Any paying hand (tens or better, two pair, three of a kind)
• Any four cards of the same suit
• Any four to an outside straight with at least one high card
• Any four to an outside straight with no high cards (zero house edge)
• Any four to an inside straight with 4 high cards (zero house edge)

A lot of people have asked me what I mean by 'inside straight', 'outside straight', 'spread 4', and 'spread 5.'An inside straight is one in which an 'inside' card is missing, such as (4,5,7,8). An outside straight is one in which an outside card is missing, such as (4,5,6,7). Outside straights are much better because there are 8 cards that can complete them as opposed to 4 for an inside straight. Spread4 means that the cards in question span 4 ranks in a row,for example a (5,6,8). Spread 5 means the cards in question span 5 ranks, for example a (5,7,9).

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Aggregate Payout Warning:

The table will probably have a maximum payout. At Casino Niagara in Niagara Falls the maximum aggregate payout is $75,000 per round. As a result the player should not bet more than the maximum payout divided by 3000. Any bet above this quotient will not pay the full odds on a royal flush, thus increasing the house edge.

Analysis

The following table shows the number of combinations, probability, and contribution to the return of all possible outcomes under optimal strategy. The lower right cell shows an expected loss of 3.51% of the minimum bet size. By the end of the hand, the player will have pulled back 1.768 bets, leaving 1.232 on the table. This makes the element of risk, defined as the ratio of expected loss to total amount bet 3.51%/1.232 = 2.85%.

The standard deviation, relative to a single bet, is 5.17.

Let it Ride — Standard Pay Table

Hand	Pays	Bet	Win	Combinations	Probability	Return
Royal Flush	1000	3	3,000	80	0.000002	0.004617
Royal Flush	1000	2	2,000	0	0.000000	0.000000
Royal Flush	1000	1	1,000	0	0.000000	0.000000
Straight Flush	200	3	600	352	0.000007	0.004063
Straight Flush	200	2	400	368	0.000007	0.002832
Straight Flush	200	1	200	0	0.000000	0.000000
Four of a kind	50	3	150	7,872	0.000151	0.022717
Four of a kind	50	2	100	4,608	0.000089	0.008865
Four of a kind	50	1	50	0	0.000000	0.000000
Full House	11	3	33	33,408	0.000643	0.021210
Full House	11	2	22	41,472	0.000798	0.017553
Full House	11	1	11	0	0.000000	0.000000
Flush	8	3	24	10,008	0.000193	0.004621
Flush	8	2	16	92,152	0.001773	0.028366
Flush	8	1	8	0	0.000000	0.000000
Straight	5	3	15	4,464	0.000086	0.001288
Straight	5	2	10	88,656	0.001706	0.017056
Straight	5	1	5	110,880	0.002133	0.010666
Three of a kind	3	3	9	364,560	0.007014	0.063122
Three of a kind	3	2	6	328,968	0.006329	0.037973
Three of a kind	3	1	3	404,712	0.007786	0.023358
Two pair	2	3	6	574,128	0.011045	0.066272
Two pair	2	2	4	682,776	0.013136	0.052542
Two pair	2	1	2	1,214,136	0.023358	0.046716
Tens or better	1	3	3	2,571,636	0.049474	0.148423
Tens or better	1	2	2	2,647,560	0.050935	0.101870
Tens or better	1	1	1	3,228,804	0.062117	0.062117
Loser	-1	3	-3	53,076	0.001021	-0.003063
Loser	-1	2	-2	937,824	0.018042	-0.036085
Loser	-1	1	-1	38,576,700	0.742156	-0.742156
Total	51,979,200	1.000000	-0.035057

5-Card Bonus Bet

I don't know if this bet even has a name, so I am titling it the '5-Card Bonus Bet.' It is a $1 side bet, which pays based on the poker value of the final five-card hand. This is a sucker bet, that should be avoided. Based on a small sampling of casinos in Las Vegas and Laughlin, the house edge varies from 13.77% (Lady Luck) to 36.52% (New York, New York). Below are some casinos, their payoff table, and their house edge, in order from best to worst. Wins are on a 'for one' basis, meaning the player does not get his original bet back, even on a win.

Let it Ride Side Bet Pay Tables

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Hand	Table 1	Table 2	Table 3	Table 4	Table 5	Table 6	Table 7	Table 8	Table 9
Royal flush	20000	20000	20000	20000	20000	10000	20000	20000	25000
Straight flush	2000	1000	2000	2000	1000	2000	2000	1000	2500
Four of a kind	100	100	100	400	400	100	300	300	400
Full house	75	75	75	200	200	75	150	150	200
Flush	50	50	50	50	50	50	50	50	50
Straight	25	25	25	25	25	25	25	25	25
Three of a kind	9	4	8	5	5	8	5	5	5
Two pair	6	3	4	0	0	4	0	0	0
Tens or better	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
House edge	13.77%	23.73%	25.39%	25.53%	26.92%	26.93%	35.14%	36.52%	24.07%

The following is a list of which casinos have which pay tables based on my small sampling. Unless otherwise stated all casinos are in Las Vegas:

• Table 1: Lady Luck
• Table 2: Las Vegas Club, Freemont, Californian,Plaza, Main Street Station, Ballys, Circus Circus,Hilton, Grand (Biloxi), Beau Rivage (Biloxi), Horseshoe(Tunica), Grand (Tunica)
• Table 3: Golden Gate
• Table 4: Bellagio, Excalibur, Mandalay Bay, Harrah's,Imperial Palace, Paris, Venetian
• Table 5: MGM Grand, Golden Nugget
• Table 6: Colorado Belle (Laughlin), Sky City (New Mexico)
• Table 7: Four Queens, Flamingo Hilton
• Table 8: New York New York
• Table 9: Rivers casino in Pittsburgh, PA

The next table shows the probability and return for every hand under pay table 2 above. The return of 76.27% reflects a house edge of 100.00% - 76.27% = 23.73%. Again, all pays are on a 'for one' basis.

5-Card Bonus

Hand	Pays	Combinations	Probability	Return
Royal flush	20,000	4	0.000002	0.030782
Straight flush	1,000	36	0.000014	0.013852
Four of a kind	100	624	0.000240	0.024010
Full house	75	3,744	0.001441	0.108043
Flush	50	5,108	0.001965	0.098270
Straight	25	10,200	0.003925	0.098116
Three of a kind	4	54,912	0.021128	0.084514
Two pair	3	123,552	0.047539	0.142617
Tens or better	1	422,400	0.162527	0.162527
Loser	0	1,978,380	0.761220	0.000000
Total	2,598,960	1.000000	0.762730

3-Card Bonus Bet

Some casinos offer a side bet based on the value of the player's three cards, similar to the Pair plus bet in Three Card Poker. The main difference is in Let It Ride the bet has a separate win for a 'Mini Royal', defined as a suited ace, king, and queen. The following table table shows the most common pay table for this bet.

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3-Card Bonus

Hand	Pays	Combinations	Probability	Return
Mini Royal	50	4	0.000181	0.00905
Straight flush	40	44	0.001991	0.079638
Three of a kind	30	52	0.002353	0.070588
Straight	6	720	0.032579	0.195475
Flush	3	1096	0.049593	0.148778
Pair	1	3744	0.169412	0.169412
Nothing	-1	16440	0.743891	-0.743891
House Edge	22100	1	-0.070950

The next pay table shows other possible variants of the Three Card Bonus bet.

3-Card Bonus

Hand	Table 1	Table 2	Table 3	Table 4	Table 5
Mini Royal	50	50	200	100	50
Straight flush	40	40	40	50	40
Three of a kind	30	30	30	30	30
Straight	6	5	6	6	6
Flush	3	4	3	3	4
Pair	1	1	1	1	1
Nothing	-1	-1	-1	-1	-1
House edge	7.10%	5.39%	4.38%	4.20%	2.14%

The only casino I am aware of that offers pay table 5 is the Borgata in Atlantic City (source).

6-Card Bonus

Some casinos add on a side bet known as the 6-Card Bonus. This side bet is found on multiple poker-derivative games, so I created a special page for it. For more information, please see my page on the 6-Card Bonus.

Millionaire Progressive

This is a $5 'red light' progressive side bet that pays $1,000,000 for a royal flush in spades, using the player's five-card hand. For all the rules and analysis, please see my page on the Millionaire Progressive.

Seeing Extra Cards

Although players are not supposed to share information, you can often accidentally see other player cards, or this rule is ignored and players voluntarily show each other their cards. Seeing other cards can make the difference in borderline plays, namely the zero house edge straights listed under the 4-card strategy above. In his book Mastering the Game of Let It Ride, author Stanley Ko offers a strategy for these situations. He doesn't state how much it lowers the house edge, but James Grosjean does in his book Beyond Counting (Exhibit CAA). According to Grosjean, if you can see every player card in a 7-player game, and made perfect use of the information, it would lower the house advantage from 3.51% to 2.34% only.

Inside Links

• Appendix 1: Details on how the strategy and expected return were determined.
• Appendix 2: Details on the Isle of Capri (Black Hawk, Colorado) rules.
• Appendix 3: Analysis of 16 different Let it Ride pay tables.

Outside Links

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German translation of this page.

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Written by:Michael Shackleford