Dealer —
Board
Seat 1 — your hand —
TripsPay table 1
Ante1 : 1
BlindStraight or better
Play4x · 2x · 1x
Frequencies are from hands actually dealt in this session. The Monte Carlo tab runs millions for the converged numbers.
Overriding the outs count to always raise on board-made two pair or better measures 0.407% worse per ante over four million paired deals. The outs count already covers genuinely strong hands.
Win with less than a straight and the Blind pushes. Lose and it goes, whatever you hold.
Trips settles on your own hand whether or not you fold and whether or not the dealer opens. House edges are exact, computed from the 133,784,560 seven-card combinations.
| Measure | Simulated | Published | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
Runs the same engine that deals the live table, playing every hand by the book. | |||
This game swings hard — the standard deviation is about 4.9 ante units per hand, so a house-edge estimate at 200,000 hands still carries roughly ±1.1 percentage points. Run millions before trusting the third decimal.
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