PROFILE
Three Card Stud Triple Draw™ is a purpose-built game, designed to maximize playability and action while also delivering both scalable betting and scalable payoffs. The only prominent game on the market with both scalable betting and scalable payoffs is Mississippi Stud. Meanwhile, no game can match this combination of playability (94.6% betting frequency) and action (42.1% max-betting frequency), much less off a single forced bet -- and while giving the player an extra card to boot, and while offering scalable payoffs.
Though played using three-card poker hands, Three Card Stud Triple Draw™ profiles most similarly to Crazy 4 Poker and Four Card Poker, which both feature a single 1x-3x or fold betting round.
Though played using three-card poker hands, Three Card Stud Triple Draw™ profiles most similarly to Crazy 4 Poker and Four Card Poker, which both feature a single 1x-3x or fold betting round.
Three Card Stud Triple Draw™: Profile
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Forced Bets # of Cards (Player/Dealer) Scalable Betting? Scalable Payoffs? Betting Rounds Play Bet Range Betting Frequency Max-Bet Frequency Win Frequency Payoff Frequency House Advantage Average Bet Per Hand Adj. House Advantage Qualifier? Skill Level Strategy Rules Optimal Play Strategy Rules Near-Optimal |
Three Card Stud
Triple Draw™ 1 5/4 Yes Yes 1 1x-3x 94.6% 42.1% 46.7% 46.8% 1.75% 2.79 Units 0.63% Ante Only Intermediate+ 20+ 11 |
Crazy 4 Poker
2 5/5 Semi No 1 1x-3x 76.5% 18.6% 47.3% 47.3% 3.42% 3.14 Units 1.09% Ante Only Entry Level 3 -- |
Four Card Poker
1 5/6 Yes No 1 1x-3x 52.8% 30.7% 29.7% 29.7% 2.79% 2.14 Units 1.30% No Intermediate -- 7 |
In poker parlance, Crazy 4 Poker profiles a loose and somewhat aggressive game, with a healthy 76.5 betting frequency (materially higher than Three Card Poker™) and a reasonably aggressive 18.6% max-bet frequency. It is the default entry-level game with a single 1x-3x-or-fold betting round, given that it is designed to be played optimally with only two strategy rules (three including folding). It is also reasonably priced with an adj. house advantage of 1.09% per unit wagered, and with an average bet of 3.14 units per hand profiles in a sense as triple baccarat. The game does require two forced bets, however.
Four Card Poker is a tighter but more aggressive game, in that it is only correct to play 52.8% of hands, but the player can max-bet (3x) on 30.7% hands. Near-optimal strategy can be expressed in 7 rules, making Four Card Poker more of an intermediate-level option. On the plus side, the game only requires one forced bet, and is the rare game where there is no qualifier -- all wagers play. The catch here is that the dealer gets six cards to make a four-card hand, while the player gets five cards to make a four-card hand.
Three Card Stud Triple Draw™ is both the loosest and most aggressive of the games, again with a betting frequency of 94.6% and a max-bet frequency of 42.1%. Though the gist of the game is explainable by a handful of rules, Three Card Stud Triple Draw™ has a higher skill requirement than Four Card Poker due primarily to the fact that the strategy in Three Card Stud Triple Draw™ centers around types of hands (suited hands, connectors, one-gappers, pairs, etc.), rather than pivoting on fixed hands. Thus, Three Card Stud Triple Draw™ carries a lower theoretically achievable house edge to compensate, and with an average bet of 2.79 units and an adj. house advantage of 0.63% per unit wagered, Three Card Stud Triple Draw™ profiles as closer to triple blackjack.
Four Card Poker is a tighter but more aggressive game, in that it is only correct to play 52.8% of hands, but the player can max-bet (3x) on 30.7% hands. Near-optimal strategy can be expressed in 7 rules, making Four Card Poker more of an intermediate-level option. On the plus side, the game only requires one forced bet, and is the rare game where there is no qualifier -- all wagers play. The catch here is that the dealer gets six cards to make a four-card hand, while the player gets five cards to make a four-card hand.
Three Card Stud Triple Draw™ is both the loosest and most aggressive of the games, again with a betting frequency of 94.6% and a max-bet frequency of 42.1%. Though the gist of the game is explainable by a handful of rules, Three Card Stud Triple Draw™ has a higher skill requirement than Four Card Poker due primarily to the fact that the strategy in Three Card Stud Triple Draw™ centers around types of hands (suited hands, connectors, one-gappers, pairs, etc.), rather than pivoting on fixed hands. Thus, Three Card Stud Triple Draw™ carries a lower theoretically achievable house edge to compensate, and with an average bet of 2.79 units and an adj. house advantage of 0.63% per unit wagered, Three Card Stud Triple Draw™ profiles as closer to triple blackjack.
