Millenium Ride Rules

At the start of the game you place three equal sized bets in the three circles in front of your character. The dealer will then deal the cards. You will get three cards and the dealer will get two cards, face down in front of him. The aim of the game is to get a qualifying poker hand – a pair of tens or better- by combining your three hole cards with the two cards held by the dealer.

In the first round, based on your knowledge of your hole cards, you must decide if you want to let all three bets ride or if you want to take back one of the three bets. If you already have a pair of tens or better then the smart move is to let the bets ride.

In round two the dealer reveals one of his cards and you must again decide, this time based on the four cards you can see whether you want to let your remaining bets ride or take back another bet.

In the final round the dealers’ second card is revealed. You can now see all five cards and know the strength of your own hand. You will have either one, two or three bets still in play.

If you hold a pair of tens or better your hand will win on each of your remaining bets separately according to the payout table. If your hand does not qualify you will lose all the remaining bets.

Let’s take an example. You decide to bet a dollar and have three dollars out in front of you. Now let’s say you are dealt 7, 8 and 10 all of Hearts. There are quite a few possible qualifying hands that you could hit if the dealer reveals the right cards.

You could hit a potential runner-runner straight, runner-runner flush, runner-runner straight flush and have three outs in the three remaining tens that could make the hand qualify, there is also the possibility of the dealers cards being paired sevens, eights, tens or better.

However you feel that your chances of hitting all of the cards needed to make a qualifying hand are not strong enough to let all three bets ride and decide to take back one the bets leaving two dollars out in front of you.

The dealer then turns over his first card and shows you a 9 of Hearts. Bingo. Suddenly things are looking much better. Your runner-runner draws all look much more achievable and certainly worth risking both of your bets.

You have eight outs for your open ended straight draw, nine outs for a flush draw, two outs for a straight flush draw and you still have three outs to make the minimum qualifying hand. Disregarding overlaps that means you have 18 outs that will get you a qualifying hand. You decide to let both your remaining bets ride.

The dealers’ second card turns out to be a Jack of Spades which means you hit the Straight. A straight pays 5 to 1 so you win a 5 times return on both of your remaining bets, that’s sees you ten bucks up! If only that Spade had been another Heart, a straight flush pays out at 200 to 1!

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