Normally,
this fee is tolerable in poker because players do not bet against the house, but
against each other. How else is the casino going
to pay for their employees,
playing tables and neon lights?
However,
you were hoodwinked, okay, suckered, into giving up the additional fifty cents
per hand because 3-card poker DOES have a built-in casino advantage.
Even
if you were to employ a sound betting strategy like not making the “play”
wager unless your hand consists of at least a queen, six, and
a four in your
hand, the house edge on the “ante” wager is about 2.1%, with the “pair
plus” slightly higher at 2.3%. A bearable casino advantage, yes, but it does
not merit you giving the casino an additional fifty cents per hand.
Giving
them their supplementary fifty cents is akin to being suckered into making a sucker
bet, which, if you do not know the difference,
makes you the sucker.
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