Let
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The Let It Ride rules are fairly easy and the optimal strategy gives you a short list of plays to remember. Free games are available at most of the online casinos for practice. You might also print this page and clip out the strategy to take to a real casino game. Look for the full payouts that are shown below. These payouts along with optimal play will put the theoretical house advantage at about 3.6%. . . .Not too bad.
Let It Ride Poker
Players make three equal
bets in the three circles marked "1", "2" and "$" right to left (as illustrated
above). The dealer deals three cards to each player and then two community
cards, face down, to himself.
After the player looks at his three cards, he may cancel his bet in Circle
1 by signaling the dealer to push it back to him, or he can "let it ride"
and stay in play. Once the player chooses to let a bet ride it must stay on
the table until the end of the hand. Likewise when a bet is withdrawn, it
stays out of play.
The dealer then turns one of his two cards face up. The player can now take
his Circle 2 bet back or he can let it ride. His Circle 1 decision does not
restrict his Circle 2 option in any way. After the player makes his Circle
2 choice the betting is over because the $ Circle bet always stays in play.
The dealer then completes all the players' hands by turning his second card face up.
At this final stage, if the combined five card hand does not give the player a pair of tens or better, the dealer collects the $ Circle bets and any others that the players let ride. If any of the players have a pair of tens or better, the dealer pays the $ Circle bet and any others left in play, in accordance with the payout table.
