Caribbean Stud Poker
September 29 - Although the name is changed oftne, Caribbean Stud Poker is just as popular
at your favourite online casino? as it is in land based casinos. Starnet, Cryptologic, Boss
Media and Real Time
Gaming call there online version of the game 'Caribbean Stud Poker' and Microgaming calls
the game Cyberstud Poker
but the basic rules are the same. The only difference is in the pay table.
Starnet, Real Time Gaming, and Boss Media all follow the
traditional? Mikohn
Corporation pay table. Cryptologic sweetens the royal flush to 200 to 1.
Microgaming makes several enhancements, paying only even money on a two pair but
considerably more on all greater hands. The following table displays the pay
table for each brand and the resulting house edge assuming using the optimal strategy.
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Caribbean Stud Poker - Online Style
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| Hand |
Microgaming |
Cryptologic |
Boss Media,
Starnet,
Real Time Gaming |
| Royal flush |
999 to 1 |
200 to 1 |
100 to 1 |
| Straight flush |
199 to 1 |
50 to 1 |
50 to 1 |
| Four of a kind |
99 to 1 |
20 to 1 |
20 to 1 |
| Full house |
14 to 1 |
7 to 1 |
7 to 1 |
| Flush |
9 to 1 |
5 to 1 |
5 to 1 |
| Straight |
5 to 1 |
4 to 1 |
4 to 1 |
| Three of a kind |
3 to 1 |
3 to 1 |
3 to 1 |
| Two pair |
1 to 1 |
2 to 1 |
2 to 1 |
| Pair |
1 to 1 |
1 to 1 |
1 to 1 |
| Ace/king |
1 to 1 |
1 to 1 |
1 to 1 |
| House edge |
5.01% |
5.21% |
5.22% |
The table shows Microgaming to have the best online version of Caribbean Stud
Poker, with a house edge of 5.01%. All the brands pay even money on an ace/king,
therefore there are not strategy deviations beyond the conventional strategy.?
Boss Media and Starnet offer something different with the optional one dollar side bet. Making only
one observation each Starnet's meter was $12616 and Boss Media's was
$7849. This results in a house edges of 49.05% and 61.47% respectively.
Obviously not enough money is being added into the meter per play. If you must play
Caribbean Stud Poker We strongly urge you to steer clear of the side bet.
Correct strategy is to always raise on a pair or better, never on a
non-qualifying hand, and on ace/king as follows:
Raise if the dealer's card is a two through queen and matches one of yours.
Raise if the dealer's card is an ace or king and you have a queen or jack in
your hand. Raise if the dealer's rank does not match any of yours and you have a
queen in your hand and the dealer's card is less than your fourth highest card.
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