Six Card Bonus
The common structure combines the player’s three cards and dealer’s three cards, then evaluates the best five-card poker hand. Pay tables often begin at three of a kind and rise to a royal flush.
Dealer qualification and the Ante/Play decision normally do not affect this settlement.
Mini royal and progressives
Some games pay A-K-Q suited as a mini royal or fund a progressive jackpot from an additional wager. Exact eligibility can depend on suit, bet amount, or linked meter.
Reset value and contribution rate matter when estimating progressive return.
Outcome overlap
A player can lose the base hand while winning a side bet, or vice versa. Promotional descriptions should not imply that a side-bet win improves the base strategy.
Maximum aggregate payouts can cap simultaneous awards.
Evaluation
Enumerate all eligible card combinations under the exact number of decks and selection rule. Multiply category probability by net payout and subtract losses.
Do not borrow a return from a visually similar table.
Where the expensive difference hides
For Six Card Bonus and Other Side Bets, ante/Play is a decision game; Pair Plus is an independent pay-table wager. A useful review prices them separately.
For Six Card Bonus and Other Side Bets, compare every row, not the largest prize. Frequent small changes can outweigh a rare headline payout.
In Six Card Bonus and Other Side Bets, the useful comparison is the probability-weighted value of the full schedule—not whichever award is easiest to advertise.
What to record for Three Card Poker
- Complete schedule
- maximum-bet condition
- caps and aggregate limits
If one row of the Six Card Bonus and Other Side Bets schedule is missing, label the return unresolved rather than filling the gap from a similarly named game.
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Six Card Bonus and Other Side Bets is reviewed against the Three Card Poker rules described above. A different pay table or procedure is a different model. Editorial review updated September 24, 2026.