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Let It Ride is a dealer-run table game, and the gap between a good seat and a bad one comes down to math 6-lab keeps behind the paywall. This preview covers the setup and rules.
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Let It Ride is a dealer-run table game based on five-card stud poker, invented in the early 1990s by John Breeding, founder of Shuffle Master, and first brought to casinos in 1993. Unlike most table games, players aren't competing against the dealer or each other -- they're simply trying to build the best possible five-card poker hand from three cards of their own and two shared community cards, deciding along the way whether to pull back part of their bet or let it ride. The game had its strongest run through the 1990s and remains a recognizable, if less common, presence on casino floors today.
Let It Ride was created by John Breeding, a former truck driver who founded Shuffle Master in Minneapolis in 1983 after becoming interested in how casinos were losing money to card counters. Breeding had already built the company's first automatic card-shuffling machine, which debuted in casinos in 1992; Let It Ride was designed the following year partly to help drive further demand for that shuffling hardware, and it was presented to casinos in 1993.
Each player places three equal bets to start a round and receives three cards, keeping them hidden. Two community cards are dealt face down in front of the dealer. Players get two decision points before those community cards are revealed: after seeing their own three cards, and again after the first community card is turned over. At each point, a player can either pull back one of the three original bets or "let it ride," leaving it in play. Once both community cards are revealed, all remaining bets are settled based on the player's best five-card poker hand -- there's no competition against the dealer's hand or other players at the table, only against the game's fixed pay table.
Payouts in Let It Ride are based purely on standard poker hand rankings: a pair of 10s or better returns even money, two pair pays 2:1, three of a kind pays 3:1, a straight pays 5:1, a flush pays 8:1, a full house pays 11:1, four of a kind pays 50:1, a straight flush pays 200:1, and a royal flush pays 1,000:1. These figures are the game's standard published pay table and are posted at the table itself, not a variable or house-specific number.
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