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Ante and Play (Three Card Poker)

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.


Several details decide how much the Ante-and-Play position costs over time:


Dealer qualification. Without a Queen high or better, the dealer pays the Ante and returns the Play wager.
Three-card hand rankings, which differ from five-card poker: a straight beats a flush here.
Strategy. Folding too often or too rarely shifts the result away from the published figure.
Base of measurement. The published [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.


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.