Caribbean stud poker III
In a game of Caribbean stud poker, the house edge is always slightly over 5%. The reason why casinos make it mandatory for players not to know each other’s hands is because it has been calculated that if there are seven players, then anyone who knows the hand of the other six, that is which 30 cards they are holding, can have an edge of about 2.3.
Before the winner is entitled for a payout, the dealer has to have at least an ace or a king card, without which players get even money on their ante wager and the bet money gets cancelled. When no player can better the dealer’s hand, the entire pot, consisting of the ante and the bet wagers, is won by the dealer. There is another way a gambler may win some dough in the Caribbean stud poker game. He can stake on his poker hand besides the wager on the table by the progressive meter system where the chip acceptor machine can be fed $1 worth of gaming chip. The gain of the players is that this winning is above any which he may make from the table bets. While in U.S. casinos, anyone who has a hand of flush, full house, four of a kind, straight flush or royal flush can win $50, $100, $500, 10% or 100% of progressive meter respectively, in casinos of Macau the hands of flush, full house and four of a kind gives payout of $1000, $1500 and $5000 respectively with players having straight flush or royal flush winning the same dough as in U.S. casinos.
The version of Caribbean stud poker game played in England is the same as in the United States except that the ante wager is fixed at ₤100 and so the bet wager can be a maximum of ₤200. Since a straight flush and a royal flush both gives 50-to-1 odds, the maximum payout to the winner of the pot can be ₤10,000.
