You Can Play Poker Alone - If It's Three-Card Poker

Added: March 17, 2025

When can you play poker in an online casino and do so all by yourself? When you are playing Three-Card Poker, that's when. This is a relatively recent invention, so it is not something with a lot of tradition, but the house edges are not very big at all, so it has garnered some favor from players.

This is not a real hard game to play. You will receive three cards after placing your bet, and the house gets three cards as well. You can make a "Pair/Plus" bet, which will win if your hand is good enough, but for it to do that you have to have at least a pair. And you will get a nice payoff for very good hands; for example, you'll be paid 4-to-1 if you have a flush, up to 40-to-1 for a straight flush. In this scenario, whatever the dealer has is irrelevant to what you earn on a hand. You can also make an "Ante/Play" wager to play directly against whatever the house has. It begins with an "Ante" wager, and then there is the opportunity to make a "Play" bet of the same amount if you have at least a Queen high in your hand. If the house does not have a Queen high, you win the Ante bet. If the house does indeed qualify in that manner, but loses the hand itself to you, that means you can win both bets. But if the house qualifies and has better than your hand, you will lose both of those bets.

It is, of course, possible to make both the Pair/Plus bet and the Ante/Play bet on the same hand. And it is advisable, if you are looking to win at the game, to make both of the wagers, meaning the Pair/Plus and the Ante, and if you have that Queen high, move forward with the Play bet.

People love poker, of course, and they are going to be drawn to virtually any variation on it. Three-Card Poker is a simple and enjoyable variation of the poker game, with a little bit of blackjack included, in the sense that you are playing head-up with the dealer/house and at least in one scenario have to beat the hand of your "opponent." It moves quickly, and you don't have to be a poker "expert" to figure out how to play it, so there is nothing wrong with giving it a try!