The
online gambling industry is unique in many ways, one being that each
internet casino presents limitless borders. An operator can pack in
as many games as it wants and never run out of space. As such,
virtual gaming floors are the
perfect forum for testing out new game ideas.
In
the last two decades, we’ve seen a lot of new games rise to
ultimate glory. Microgaming’s 243 ways to win slots were a smashing
success! Lottery-style
sit-n-goes,
first
introduced by French operator Winamax in 2013,
revolutionized internet poker. Live
dealer casinos, debuted in 2003 by Playtech and perfected by
Evolution Gaming in 2006, solved the lack of realism in RNG-based
gambling.
Worst Online Casino Game Ideas that Bombed
Not
every game created is an instant success. In fact, just like
land-based table game inventions, the majority of them die on the
virtual gaming floor – some faster than others.
7-Card
Stud video poker was a perfect example. It
made the games
more complicated than they needed to be.
Similarly, 7-reel slot machines failed to attract players, who
found them to confusing to keep up with.
Duplicate
Poker turned players off by elimination the luck factor entirely.
Yes, poker players love the skill element, but without the marginal
influence of the luck of the draw, no one wanted to play anymore.
Those
games were historically bad ideas, but none more so than the three
games I’m about to tell you about. These titles died so quickly,
today’s players may have completely missed their short-lived
appearance.
#1 Showtime Hold’em Poker
Showtime
Poker was an online poker variant introduced by PokerStars in May
2018. It was conceived under the premise that players believed it was
“about time poker players show their folded cards”. At the end of
a hand, all mucked cards would be revealed.
PokerStars
wanted this game to take off like a rocket! They were so enthused
about it that they contracted some of their most
famous pros
to build hype by streaming Showtime Poker tables on their live Twitch
feeds.
There
were two major problems with this format. Pro players hated it,
because it forced them to give away their game play secrets. Amateurs
hated it because they don’t give a crap about seeing mucked cards.
End result – everyone hated it!
#2 Live Casino Slot Machines
In
2011,
the creative minds at Evolution Gaming believed they’d had an
epiphany. Live casinos are a perfect playground for table games, but
they
were
unable to accommodate players of the most popular casino games on the
planet – slot machines. Enter stage right, live dealer slots.
This
bold introduction was
meant to revolutionize
the live casino industry. Evolution
put a lot of thought and detail into its debut, going so far as to
replace virtual reels with actual spinning wheels. A dealer would
host the game, offering commentary and providing live chat
interaction with players.
What
went wrong? Well, slots players enjoy traditional
slot games
for a reason. They like the singularity. They like controlling the
pace of the games. Turning slot machines into a social affair was
unnecessary, uninvited, and unwelcome.
Of
worthy mention, live
dealer slot machines
are attempting a comeback this year, although I don’t expect the
results to be any different.
#3 Virtual Reality (VR) Gambling
This
is one concept most of you will remember. It wasn’t
long ago,
around 2015-16, that the virtual reality movement made
its push.
The
concept was spot on. Throw on a headset and enter a virtual casino
world, where your real-life actions transfer into the virtual realm
in the most realistic digital casino games ever imagined exist!
Yes,
it was quite a concept, but it did not catch on, and for one very
simple reason. The technology necessary, and availability of that
technology, has not yet reached mainstream households. That’s not
to say that VR gambling doesn’t still have a chance in years to
come.
Microgaming
was making mobile games back in 2003, but it wasn’t until 2007 that
the first smartphones appeared. Who wanted to play slots on a flip
phone? No one. Another five years would pass before the mobile
gambling revolution actually gained a foothold, and now, it’s the
number one way to play over the internet, and enjoy all the new
online casino game ideas that developers are constantly spitting out
– the good and the bad.
Defunct Gaming: Concept and consequence of Unfold Holdem.
Seated among the a small but formidable group of hard-core grinders,
you peak down at a questionable hand. It’s a pair of 8s. You’re
under the gun. You want to make a move, but you’re out of position.
You call, hoping the action won’t get too heavy, but it does. Sweat
beads threaten to form on your temples, so you make the only move you
can – you fold. The flop comes down, 8-4-4. Doh!
You should have stayed in. A full boat like that doesn’t come along
often. With the right moves at the right moments, you could have
exploited that for a big cash, if only you’d known what was
caoming. But wait… what if it’s not too late? What if you could
rewind? Stay in the hand and turn your unpredictably poor choice into
a profit? What if you could… unfold?
Concept & Consequence of Unfold Holdem
Once upon a time, not so long ago, the marketing innovations team
behind PokerStars and Full Tilt put their heads
together in an effort to bring something fresh – something
provocative – something enticing for players, and at the same time
profitable for the brands, to the virtual felt. What they came up
with was a new game that would allow players to “unfold” a
mucked hand.
This new Unfold Poker concept was heavily promoted by
both online poker rooms, and in the beginning, it drew a fair number
of players to the tables. Before long though, the crowds dispersed.
Its popularity waned. No longer was anyone interested in what could
have been a very intriguing and opportunistic way to play Texas
Holdem.
What Killed Unfold Poker Games
The rules of this intriguing new poker game were simple enough. The
game was played just like Texas Holdem, except that an extra Ante bet
would be required from each player, prior to each and every hand.
This bet, equal to half the small blind, went into a side pot known
as the Unfold Pot. If no one unfolded, or the hand was decided
pre-flop, all Unfold antes would be returned. The Ante was a bit
excessive, but the return rules were good.
The biggest problem was that, in order to unfold a hand, the player
would have to place yet another bet – this one equal to the total
size of the Unfold Pot. With a full table, that can get expensive.
If a player did unfold, they obviously couldn’t compete against
fully active hands. They would instead compete against other
Unfold-ing players. But if only one player folded pre-flop, they
wouldn’t even be eligible to unfold, having no one to compete
against.
If two or more players folded, then any one of them could Unfold. If
only one player did, they would automatically win the Unfold pot. If
more than one Unfolded, their hands were compared. The winner took to
pot – minus the usual rake fee applied to standard poker pots, of
course.
The problem was plain to see. It was just too expensive. Players felt
they were being exploited by PokerStars and Full Tilt, who were
collecting rakes on two pots. Everyone complained that Unfold’em
Hold’em (as it clearly should have been named) was a rip off.
Could Unfold Games Ever Ride Again?
The only way Unfold Holdem could ever acquire the fame it was
originally poised to acquire, would be to make the fees more
reasonable. The rake should be reduced to match all other cash games.
The Ante should be dropped to 10% of the big blind. This would make
it cheaper to place the required bet to qualify for the Unfold Pot.
Players who do unfold should be allowed to bet/raise on their hands,
as well, encouraging them to fight for those pots, rather than
letting one bold, bluff-happy player take every Unfold pot, simply
because no one else is confident enough to risk enough chips to
compete for it.
In essence, make it a good game that everyone can enjoy, without
scooping so much off the top as to make it unprofitable. And please,
to whatever company may eventually decide to restructure and
introduce a better version, call it Unfold’em Hold’em.
That is all…
Introduction to Live Texas Holdem Bonus Poker from Evolution
When you think
of Texas Holdem, what comes to mind? Probably a group
of players seated around a table, fiddling with their chip stacks,
stoic poker faces revealing nothing of their underlying emotions. But
there is another game of this nature known as Texas Holdem Bonus
Poker, and anyone can play it, with or without a bluff-worthy
poker face.
In its
traditional format, Texas Holdem is a player-versus-player (PvP)
gambling game; one wherein the players compete only against each
other, and the casino profits by taking a commission, or rake, off
the top of each pot. The Holdem Bonus Poker edition is more akin to
every other casino-style amusement, where the player competes against
a single house bank.
It didn’t
take long for Texas Holdem Bonus Poker to catch on in land-based and
online casinos. It became so popular, in fact, that everyone’s
favorite Live Casino supplier, Evolution Gaming, chose to
convert it into one of their award winning real-time streaming games.
They call it Live Dealer Texas Holdem Bonus Poker.
Live Texas Holdem Bonus Poker by Evolution
The base game
is incredibly similar to a normal Texas Holdem poker game. Hole
cards, community cards and hand ranks are exactly the same. While
other players can join in, you won’t have to worry about them. Much
like blackjack, your only job is to beat the dealer’s hand to win.
In that regard, it’s kind of like playing heads up poker – one on
one against a single opponent.
Like any other
house banked game, however, the casino always has an advantage over
the player, no matter how slight. In this case, the rules give the
house an edge of 2.04% on the Ante bet alone, 0.53% overall. Let’s
take a closer look…
How to Play Live TX Holdem Bonus Poker
What draws most
players to this game is the ability to increase ones bets when the
cards are falling in your favor. It gives you the opportunity to
control your own destiny in terms of situational hand value.
You start with
an Ante bet (we’ll talk about optional side bets later). The
dealer will then dealer two hole to the player and him/herself. The
player’s hole cards are face up; the dealer’s face down. From
here, you can either fold, forfeiting the ante bet, or play on,
placing a Flop bet e1qual to 2x the ante.
After placing a
Flop bet, the dealer will deal the first three community cards (the
Flop). Next you can Check, placing no bet but staying in the
hand, or place a Turn bet, equal to 1x the ante. The fourth
community card (Turn) is played face up, followed by one last Check
or bet – the River bet (1x ante).
At this point,
the final River card is played. The dealer turns up their hole cards
and both hands are compared. Each must come up with the best possible
5 card hand using any 5-card combination of the 7 cards available to
them – these being their own two hole cards plus the five community
cards.
Don’t worry,
the computer will automatically generate the best possible hand for
player and dealer. At this point, the two hands are compared, and the
following win, loss and payout rules apply:
If…
Then…
Dealer wins
Player loses all Ante and Play bets.
Player wins
Player wins even money on Play bets (Flop, Turn, River); Ante is a
push.
Player wins with Straight or better
Player wins even money on all Ante and Play bets.
Dealer and Player tie
All Ante and Play bets push.
Live Dealer Texas Holdem Bonus Side Bets
Evolution’s live dealer Texas Holdem Bonus Poker comes with a pair
of optional side bets known as the Bonus Bet and the
First 5 Jackpot Bet. These wagers are entirely
optional. They have no bearing on the base game, nor does the result
of the base game have any bearing on the side bets. They can be won
or lost irrespective of each other.
Bonus Side Bet
The Bonus bet is based on the player and/or dealer’s hole cards
only. The best starting hands in Texas Hold’em are the ones you’re
aiming for with this bet, including any pair, or any A with a Jack or
better (A-A, A-K, A-Q, A-J), with suited hole cards paying more. You
cannot combine the player and dealer cards. Either the player’s
and/or dealer’s hand must match one of the winning hands shown in
the pay table below.
Hole Cards
Payout
A-A, Player’s and Dealer’s Hand
1000 to 1
A-A, Player’s Hand Only
30 to 1
A-K, Suited
25 to 1
A-J or A-Q,
Suited
20 to 1
A-K, Mixed Suits
15 to 1
J-J, Q-Q or K-K
10 to 1
A-J or A-Q, Mixed Suits
5 to 1
Any Pair 2-2 thru 10-10
3 to 1
First 5 Jackpot Side Bet
This $1 side bet carries a progressive jackpot, paying out to any
hand of high enough rank. Only the player’s hand rank counts
towards the First 5 Jackpot bet.
The jackpot grows with every First 5 side bet placed, and pays out
100% of its girth when a Royal Flush is dealt (assuming at least one
player made the bet). Since all players are sharing the same hand,
all players who have placed the bet will share in an equal portion of
the total jackpot. A progressive counter display on the right of the
screen will show exactly how much of the jackpot each player is privy
to if a Royal Flush is dealt.
The following hand ranks and pay table apply.
Hole Cards
Payout
Royal Flush
100% of Jackpot
Straight Flush
2,500
4 of a Kind
250
Full House
50
Flush
25
Straight
10
3 of a Kind
3
Overall RTP
Each eligible bet within this game carries its own theoretical return
to player. The Play bets have the highest return rate of 99.47%. The
Ante bet only has an RTP of 97.96%, but is required in order to get
the higher RTP on any Play bets.
The side bets are sucker bets, of course. The Bonus side bet will net
you an RTP of 91.46%, equivalent to a house edge of 8.54%. If you
think that’s bad, the First 5 Jackpot is far worse at 81.84% RTP
(house edge 18.16%).
Don’t be fooled into making this bet. Many players feel the urge to
place it, thinking the odds of winning at least a share of the
jackpot will be so much higher with a large number of players
participating, but it is nothing like the Bad Beat Jackpots on a
traditional live Texas Holdem game (PvP). There is only one player
hand being dealt – not one hand to each active player. The odds of
a Royal Flush being dealt are still an incredibly low 1 in 43,316, no
matter how many players are at the table.
It’s WPT Canada Style! The World Poker Tour Fallsview Poker Classic is coming to Ontario in February.
Let’s see here… three days, four events, a pair of super satellites, innumerable poker pros and a pristine view of the majestic Niagara Falls. That can only mean one thing, ladies and gentleman. It’s WPT Canada style!
The World Poker Tour is coming to Ontario. Just one week from now, the WPT Fallsview Poker Classic will kick off with its first events, as well as a pair of super satellites to the $5k Main Event. There’s already energy in the air as Ontario’s casinos prep for the big game.
Casinos? Isn’t it just one casino? Not if you’re looking for a cheap ride into the main event.
Satellites to WPT Fallsview Poker Classic
Generally speaking, Casino Fallsview and Niagara Casino are rivals. After all, they’re only a few minutes apart. Heck, you could walk from one to the other in 20 minutes. But their competitive nature halts when the WPT comes to town. In this area, they share the love of the game, and the felt upon which it’s played.
Right now, players can enter satellites to the WPT Fallsview Main Event at Casino Niagara. These tables will continue to run through 6pm on February 2, at which point that poker room will close its doors until the conclusion of the Fallsview Poker Classic up the road.
Once the poker tour gets underway, players still seeking satellite entry will have one opportunity left. The final $500 Super Satellite to the Main Event will be held on February 9th in the Grand Hall at Fallsview Casino.
WPT Canada Events Schedule
The action gets underway on February 5th with Event #1, $1,000 NLHE. It features two days of starting flights, and a third day to duke it out. Players who fall to the way side on day one have the option of re-entering for the second day’s flight. Or, on February 7th, players can pay $250 to join in the Super Satellite to the next day’s event…
Event #2, $2,500 NLHE, begins on February 8th. Players will have one re-entry option, should thy need it. That tournament will wrap up on Feb 10th, just in time for the grand finale. And again, if you don’t make it to day three of that event, there’s a $500 Super Satellite to the Main Event on February 9th.
The WPT Fallsview Poker Classic Main Event kicks off Feb 10th with a $5,000 buy-in and one optional re-entry per player. Tournament officials are hoping to see the entries top 500 this year, following last year’s close-call of 489. That crowd built a prize pool of $2,229,954. The highest slice (C$ 429,384) went to American poker pro Darren Elias, marking a record-tying third WPT title.
No doubt Elias will be returning to Ontario, Canada next month to compete once more in the WPT Fallsview Poker Classic. If he can scoop one more win, he’ll surpass his current equals – Gus Hansen, Carlos Mortenson, David Rheem and Anthony Zinno – as the first player to claim 4 WPT titles.
Note: The WPT Canada tour dates have not yet been finalized. The schedule above is still subject to change until finalization.
Yellowhead Casino Alberta kicks off week-long Poker Championship series.
There’s big news in Canadian poker tournaments this week. While most of the today’s biggest pros made their way to Kahnawake, Quebec to take part in the prestigious 2018 Winter Festival, another big event was kicking off 3,500km to the west in Edmonton, Alberta. I’m talking, of course, about the 2018 Alberta Poker Championship.
The APC is a week-long poker tournament series that takes place each January at Alberta’s Casino Yellowhead. 2018 marks the 15th annual hosting of the poker tournament, where 5 events will wrap up with the APC Main Event next weekend.
Each year, the Alberta Poker Championship gets a little bigger than the last. In 2017, the tournament’s finale drew 176 entries, building a $162k prize pool for the APC Main Event. The eventual winner, Chris Symesko, collected the top prize of $46,480.
What’s So Special about the Yellowhead Casino Alberta Poker Championship 2018?
This is a particularly lucrative poker series for Canadian poker players – especially those with proven skills, who aren’t of pro status. Why, you ask? There’s one very simple reason for it.
Everybody who is anybody in the Canadian poker world will be playing their hardest his week. But the vast majority of them won’t be in Edmonton, Alberta. Most of the high-profile players will be looking to cash big in the Winter Festival Poker tournament at Kahnawake’s Playground Poker Club. That series aso got underway yesterday, and will continue through the end of January.
If you’re looking to come up big, without taking on the toughest competition in the Great White North, Yellowhead is the better place to get your game on. Here, the competition will be less fierce, made up mostly of amateurs and local business types with enough change and spare time on their hands.
That’s not to say every pro will be absent from Yellowheads’ tables, though. Poker players are a smart breed, and there’s no doubt I’m not the only one who came up with this valuable assessment of the 2018 APC series. But a narrow margin of exceptional skill is certainly worth competing against, compared to the level of talent gathering in Quebec this week.
2018 APC Event Schedule
The APC kicked off yesterday afternoon with Event #1, a $550 NLHE Bounty. Just about an hour ago, Event #2, $330 NLHE got underway. Tuesday and Thursday, the Edmonton casino will play host to $440 PLO and $220 NLHE Turbo events at 2pm and 4pm respectively.
Thursday is reserved exclusively for satellites tournaments to the Main Event tables that start up on Friday and Saturday. These NLHE satellites cost $190 to enter; a fraction of the Main Event’s standard $1,100 buy-in.
The Main Event will take place with a pair of starting flights to kick off the weekend. All players begin with 25,000 chips, with blinds increasing at 40 minute intervals. Sunday, all remaining players will converge back on the tables for the final day of action, whittling their way down to the final table and, eventually, a 1st place victor.
See the complete 2018 Alberta Poker Championship Series schedule below for more information.
Comprehensive and accredited poker history based on chronicled evidence.
I’d love to tell you that the following text is a concise and factual story of the history of poker. Unfortunately, there’s no such thing as a genuine, historical account of its origins. The one thing everyone seems to agree on is that no one really knows where it truly came from.
Postulating the Early History of Poker
There are multiple versions of the tale. Some say poker is “undoubtedly” derived from “the Persian game of As-Nas”. That quote is taken from the 1937 edition of Foster’s Complete Hoyle, by R. F. Foster. But few believe that anymore.
Evidence also supports the theory that poker originated in France as a game called “poque”. That game was similar to poker, and a direct descendant of the German card game “pochen”, which means ‘to knock‘, or ‘to brag as a bluff‘. These names are certainly more indicative of the name “poker”, as well as the strategic tool of bluffing.
It also makes sense because the French began populating the Louisiana Territory, along the Mississippi River (you’ll see how this ties in below), in the late 1600s. The land was later sold to the United States in 1803, which is about the time the factually-known history of poker games begins.
Known Poker History – 18th Century to Present
One of poker’s most prominent features – betting – came about around this time. In fact, it was the absence of a betting format that leads so many to discount the above tales of its origins. In that regard, today’s poker games can be dated back to the early- to mid-1700s. At that time, the Mississippi River was the most viable means of transporting goods to/from the southern lands of America.
By 1800, poker had spread all along the Mississippi River region, carried northward (from the previously French territory) by riverboats. Over the next few decades, the 52-card deck (also a French derivative) was introduced, ften playing straight poker and stud poker games. 20-card games still existed, but were usually reserved for 2-player games.
Officers of the 114th Pennsylvania Infantry in Petersburg, Virginia, August 1864
In Jonathan H. Green’s 1843 publication of An Exposure of the Arts and Miseries of Gambling, he details the history of poker’s suffusion throughout North America via the passage of Mississippi riverboats. As the game made its way further north, it was inevitably carried west by the gold rush of the mid-1800s.
More poker variants came about at this time. The 52-card deck became universally accepted, and the Flush hand was included among the ranks. Draw Poker came about prior to 1850, according to its mention in a game rule guide published that year. 5 Card Stud games, and the straight hand rank, were introduced during the American Civil War, with other additions like wild cards, lowball and split-pot games leading up to the turn of the century.
Texas Holdem Poker
The most popular poker game played today is Texas Holdem. This format dates back to around 1925, when the first community card games were played among small circles in the south. Known simply as Hold’em at the time, it was popular among high-stakes players in that region, but took nearly half a decade for the concept to really catch on.
A group of gamblers from Texas made their way to Las Vegas in 1967. They included Doyle Brunson and Amarillo Slim, among others. They were determined to bring this game to Vegas poker rooms, because its biggest allure was the four-round betting structure (as opposed to 2-round betting in draw poker).
More betting rounds offer a more strategic approach; a “thinking man’s game”, as Crandell Addington once called it.
Over the next three years, these gamblers managed to get the word out. They also managed to win untold amounts of money from anyone inexperienced at the game who dared compete against them.
First, they played Texas Hold’em exclusively in the Golden Nugget Casino. Then, they were invited to play at the (former) Dunes Casino, where the Second Annual Gambling Fraternity Convention was held in 1969. By 1970, Benny and Jack Binion (of Binion’s Horseshoe Casino) bought the rights to the convention, changed the name to the World Series of Poker, and by 1971, No Limit Texas Hold’em was the crown jewel (main event) of the WSOP.
Popularity of Poker Stems from TV, Internet
Technology really is a marvelous thing. In 1997, European television audiences were introduced to the “hole cam” (or “pocket cam”), allowing networks to broadcast poker games while showing the audience at home what cards each player was holding. That technology came to North America in 2002.
By then, online poker was just beginning to blossom. It wasn’t until 2003 that internet poker rooms gained ultimate fame. That was the year poker player Chris Moneymaker won a $40 online satellite (bypassing the $10k buy-in) to the WSOP Championship. He then whittled his way through the competition to win the bracelet and the $2.5 million prize.
Poker history was made that day. Now, it is among most popular professional gambling activities in the world, both online and on land.
Evolution Gaming has been a premier provider of live casino platforms since 2006. The company has released a vast selection of live dealer casino games in the last decade, including its popular Live Caribbean Stud Poker. Those tables have become much more popular this month after Evolution introduced a new progressive jackpot side bet.
Players can activate the progressive jackpot side bet by simply pressing the ‘Jackpot‘ button, now located on the betting diagram of all live Caribbean stud poker tables. The bet amount is fixed at 1 unit, based on the player’s chosen currency ($1, £1, €1, etc.)
How to Win the Progressive Jackpot
The value of the current live Caribbean stud poker progressive jackpot will be clearly displayed on the right-hand side of the screen, above the side bet’s pay table. To release the full girth of the jackpot, players will need to be dealt a Royal Flush (10, J, Q, K, A of the same suit).
Obviously, in order to participate in the progressive jackpot side bet, player’s must be dealt a hand, which necessitates at least an Ante bet of 1 unit. The side bet’s payouts are only based on the five cards dealt face up to the player at the start of the hand.
It does not matter whether the player continues with a Call bet, or Folds their hand. All side bets are paid irrespective of the base game.
Sharing Wealth Increases Odds of Winning
As any hard-core poker player knows, the odds of being dealt a Royal Flush aren’t too great, especially in stud games where there’s no option to discard and draw to a better hand. In fact, the odds of being dealt a Royal Flush in any 5 card stud game are exactly 1 in 649,740.
That particular bit of information wouldn’t help encourage players of Evolution’s live Caribbean stud tables to make the progressive jackpot side bet. But in this case, winning the progressive doesn’t actually require you – as a single player – to pull a Royal Flush.
Evolution’s live casino pays an equal share of that jackpot to any and all players currently participating, and who have placed the jackpot side bet. That means the chance of winning the jackpot is divided by the number of active jackpot-betting players.
Example: If there are 5 players betting on the jackpot, the odds drop to just under 1 in 130,000. 10 active players drops it to 1 in about 65,000, and so on.
Of course, the more players in the mix, the more you’ll share the progressive prize with, as well. But the worst feeling in the world would be to skip a 1-unit bet on the progressive, only to have the guy next to you be dealt a Royal Flush. Ouch!
Progressive Jackpot Pay Table
The Royal Flush isn’t the only thing worth winning from the live casino table’s jackpot side bet. Being dealt any of the following hands will incite the corresponding payouts (although these won’t be shared with other side-betting players).
Player’s 5-Card Hand Rank
Payout ($/£/€)
Straight Flush
2500
Four of a Kind
250
Full House
50
Flush
25
Straight
10
Three of a Kind
3
All Other Live Caribbean Stud Rules Apply
Other than the addition of a progressive jackpot side bet, Evolution’s live Caribbean stud poker rules have remain unchanged. All Call bets are equal to 2x the Ante, the dealer needs A+K high or better to qualify, and the 5+1 Bonus side bet is still a viable option for those who wish to place it.
Players can activate the progressive jackpot side bet by simply pressing the ‘Jackpot‘ button, now located on the betting diagram of all live Caribbean stud poker tables. The bet amount is fixed at 1 unit, based on the player’s chosen currency ($1, £1, €1, etc.)
Other than the addition of a progressive jackpot side bet, Evolution’s live Caribbean stud poker rules have remain unchanged. All Call bets are equal to 2x the Ante, the dealer needs A+K high or better to qualify, and the 5+1 Bonus side bet is still a viable option for those who wish to place it.