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Ante and Play (Three Card Poker)<br><br>Three Card Poker splits a hand into two stakes. First comes the Ante. After seeing three cards, the player either folds and loses that Ante or places a Play wager of the same size and compares hands with the dealer. Optional Pair Plus money sits outside this sequence entirely.<br><br><br>Several details decide how much the Ante-and-Play position costs over time:<br><br><br>Dealer qualification. Without a Queen high or better, the dealer pays the Ante and returns the Play wager.<br>Three-card hand rankings, which differ from five-card poker: a straight beats a flush here.<br>Strategy. Folding too often or too rarely shifts the result away from the published figure.<br>Base of measurement. The published [https://casinohouseedge.com/three-card-poker-house-edge/ [https://casinohouseedge.com/three-card-poker-house-edge/ Three Card Poker house edge]] counts money lost on both stakes but divides by one Ante unit, so a $10 Ante game is priced per $10 even though many hands put $20 at risk.<br><br><br>None of this resembles cash poker. There is no pot shared between players and no rake. Expected cost comes from the dealer-game rules above, and a figure quoted for one strategy describes that strategy only.<br>