Three-card Poker -- for any reader who may have forgotten -- is a poker-based game that uses just three cards per hand and is played on a blackjack table using a 52-card deck. The differences from standard poker are: no further cards are drawn, and players do not compete against each other, but against either the dealer, or against a posted payout schedule.

It’s not only the easiest poker game, but by using a very simple strategy, the house edge drops as low as 2.01%. It’s a thumb’s up play. As for that simple betting strategy, make the “play” wager if you have at least a queen, six, and a four in your hand. Using this simple approach, the house edge on the “ante” wager is about 2.01%; with the “pair plus” it’s slightly higher at 2.3%.

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Source: Deal Me In by Mark Pilarski