Caribbean Poker rules and instructions

Caribbean Poker has a worldwide popularity. It is a real classic: the casino visitors play against the dealer and who gets the better poker combination wins. (If you are familiar with the caribbean poker rules, you can skip the next chapter and read the instructions to the virtual play mode only).

Caribbean Poker Rules

A 52-cards deck is used. Before each caribbean poker game it is shuffled. After the player has made the initial bet - called ante - the dealer deals him five cards face up. Then the dealer gets his cards: only one is open, other four are face down.

The player evaluates the values of the given cards, trying to find the winning hand. Then he has to decide whether to fold or to proceed the caribbean poker game. If the first variant is chosen, the ante gets to the gambling casino, the caribbean poker game is over. In case of the second way, the player trebles the ante (he should place the main bet) and four dealer's cards are being open.

If the dealer does not have at least Ace and King (the dealer does not qualify), the player gets all his bets back plus win at the rate of the ante - not depending on the cards he has.

If the dealer has the poker hand, his cards are being compared with the player's cards. One who has the better combination breaks the bank. If the player wins he gets his bets back plus winning equal to the sum of the ante plus the win equals to the product of the main bet by the coefficient of the player's poker combination (see list below).

If the dealer has a poker hand which is equal to player's hand, the winner is found by checking the cards not enabled in the hand.

• Ace-King - according to the value of the third card, if their third cards are equal - according to the fourth, and so on.
• Pair - according to the value of the third card, if their cards are equal - according to the fourth, and so on.
• Two pairs - according to the higher pair, if the both of the pairs are equal - according to the value of the fifth card.
• Flush - according to the value of the highest card.
• Straight flush - according to the value of the higher card.

If the player and the dealer have completely equal combinations (moreover, if they both were lucky enough to get a Royal Flush), a push is announced and the player gets his ante back.

The side bet. The player can make an additional bet of 1 dollar. If he has one of the five higher poker combinations he would get from $50 to $1,000 plus his winnings. The winnings on the side bet does not depend whether the dealer "qualifies" of not - the main point is to have the better combination than the dealer.

Name	Description	Raise payouts	Bonus payouts
Royal flush	The highest poker combination is 5 cards of the same suit (Ace-King-Queen-Jack-10).	200 to 1	$1,000
Straight flush	5 cards of the same suit in sequence.	50 to 1	$500
Four of a kind	4 cards of the same denomination (e.g. four tens).	20 to 1	$200
Full house	3 cards of the same denomination, and 2 cards of another denomination (e.g.: 3 Kings and 2 sixes).	7 to 1	$100
Flush	5 cards of same suit.	5 to 1	$50
Straight	5 of any suit in sequence (e.g. 8-9-10-Jack-Queen). Ace can be either the highest (Ace-King-Queen-Jack-10), or the lowest card in the combination (5-4-3-2-A). Combination with Ace between the cards (4-3-2-Ace-King) is not considered as Straight.	4 to 1
Three of a kind	3 cards of the same denomination, and any two other cards (e.g.: 3 sixes).	3 to 1
Two pairs	Two pairs of cards of the same denomination (e.g.: 2 sixes and 2 tens).	2 to 1
Pair	One pair of cards of the same denomination (e.g.: two Jacks).	1 to 1
Ace-King	Ace and King of any suits.	1 to 1

Caribbean Poker Instructions

1. To begin the caribbean poker game, choose the value of the chips for your bets. To do that, click on the one of the appropriate chip value placed in the lower right corner of the screen.
2. Click on the central field Bet or on the circle Ante placed below to make a bet. Every new click will increase the bet by the amount of the chip selected (if you would like you may change the chip value as many times as you want it).
3. If you want you can place a side bet in 1 dollar clicking on a slot to the right of the Ante field.
4. If you wish to change the bets you placed, press Clear Bets. Or holding the space key click on the chips to remove them from the table one by one. After that place bets again.
5. Push the Deal button - the cards will be dealt, and the buttons Raise and Fold will emerge.
6. When you have evaluated your chance of winning push one of the two buttons:
   • Raise. Proceeding the caribbean poker game you are trebling the ante bet thus placing the main bet on the table, the dealer will then open his cards and the results of the caribbean poker game will be summed up.
   • Fold. Giving up the caribbean poker game you lose your ante bet.
7. After the round end you may push the Rebet button to place the same bets as you did the last round.