How to Play Let It Ride:
Let It Ride poker is a popular casino game with simple rules. It is owned by Shuffle Master, a company that manufactures cards shuffling machines, which are normally used at Let It Ride poker tables.
In Let It Ride poker, three cards from a standard 52 card deck are dealt face down to all players and to additional face-down cards are dealt to the middle of the table. These two cards are called community cards and are used by all players to form a 5 card hands together with the three cards of each player.
Before the game starts, all players place three separate bets at three marked spaces. After the cards are dealt and the players see them, they can take one of their bets back if they like. After all players take or keep one of their bets, one of the community cards is turned over. At this stage, players are taking or keeping another bet, which gives them an option to leave the minimum of 1 bet in the game. When the second betting decision is made, the second community card is turned over and the players cards are revealed.
In Let It Ride poker, players do not play against the dealer's hand. Like in video poker, they are paid in accordance to the hand they have. A pay table determines a winning sum for each poker hand. Normally, payoffs begin from a pair of 10s. One pair (of 10s or better cards) pays even money; two pair pays 2 to1; three of a kind pays 3 to 1; straight pays 5 to 1; flush pays 8 to 1; full house pays 11 to 1; four of a kind pays 200 to 1 and royal flush pays 1000 to 1.
The house edge of Let It Ride poker with a standard pay table is about 3.5%, which makes the game more profitable for the player than roulette or slots, but less profitable than baccarat or blackjack played with basic strategy.
Some casinos may reduce their pay table and pay only 500 to 1on royal flush, which increases the house edge dramatically. It is not advisable to play Let It Ride poker at such table. Another despicable thing some casinos do is limiting the maximum payoff. Before you start to play Let It Ride poker, find out whether there is such limit. If it exists, do not bet more than 1/1000 of this limit. For example, if the limit is 15,000 dollars, place three 5 dollars bets and not a single cent more.
