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Summary Three Card Poker is a banking card game in which the player and the dealer each receive three cards from a single 52 card deck. It combines two independent wagers on one layout: Ante and Play, which is settled against the dealer's hand, and Pair Plus, which is settled only against a paytable. Under the reference rules below, with an Ante Bonus of 1, 4 and 5 to 1, the Ante and Play wager carries a house edge of about 3.37% per unit of ante. The Pair Plus edge depends on the paytable and ranges from 2.32% to 7.28% across the three common tables documented here. Field Value Category Poker Variants Deck One standard 52 card deck, shuffled each round Player decisions One: play or fold after seeing three cards Dealer qualifier Queen high or better Ante and Play edge, Ante Bonus 1, 4, 5 About 3.37% of the ante Pair Plus edge, 1, 4, 6, 30, 40 2.32% Last verified 7 October 2026 Rules The player places an Ante wager, a Pair Plus wager, or both. The dealer gives three cards face ...

Summary Casino War is a banking card game in which the player and the dealer each receive one card and the higher rank wins. It is played against the house with a standard deck shoe, most commonly six decks, and has one decision point: what to do when the two cards tie. Under six deck rules in which the player always goes to war, the house edge on the main wager is 2.88%. The optional Tie bet, at 10 to 1, carries an edge of 18.65%. Field Value Category Other Card Games Decks Six in the reference ruleset; one to eight decks also documented below Player decisions One, and only after a tie: go to war or surrender Main wager edge, six decks, always go to war 2.88% Tie bet edge, six decks, 10 to 1 18.65% Last verified 29 September 2026 (derived figures, recalculated for this entry) Rules The player places a main wager and, optionally, a Tie bet. The dealer gives one card face up to the player and one to the house. Cards rank as in poker, with Ace high and 2 low. Suits have no rank. If ...

Summary EZ Baccarat is a commission-free variant of Punto Banco baccarat in which the standard 5% commission on winning Banker bets is removed and replaced with two structural rules that preserve the house's edge without a commission mechanism: the Dragon 7, which turns a Banker win on a three-card total of 7 into a push rather than a win, and the Panda 8, an optional side bet tied to a Player three-card total of 8. The game is dealt from the same shoe and follows the same drawing rules as standard Punto Banco baccarat. It is offered at commercial and tribal casinos across the United States and at Loto-Québec properties in Canada, including Casino de Montréal. Rules EZ Baccarat is dealt as standard Punto Banco: two two-card hands, Player and Banker, are dealt from a shoe, typically eight decks, with a fixed table of drawing rules determining whether either hand draws a third card based on its two-card total. Players wager on Player, Banker or Tie before the cards are d...

Summary Pai Gow Poker is a card game in which each player forms two poker hands, a five-card hand and a two-card hand, from a seven-card deal, then compares both against a banker's two hands to win, lose or push. It is played with a standard 52-card deck plus one joker. The game combines the two-hand structure of the Chinese domino game Pai Gow with standard poker hand rankings, and is offered at land-based and regulated online casinos across Canada, the United States and several other markets. Rules Pai Gow Poker uses a 52-card deck plus a single joker, 53 cards total, and seats two to seven players against a banker. Play begins with seven face-down piles of seven cards each dealt from the shuffled deck, with four cards left unused; a randomly determined number from one to seven sets which position receives the first pile, and dealing proceeds counterclockwise from there. Each player, and the banker, receives one seven-card pile and must divide it into two hands: a five-card ...