Heads up against the dealer. The earlier you commit, the more you can bet.
| Your five card hand | Pays |
|---|---|
| Royal flush | 500 to 1 |
| Straight flush | 50 to 1 |
| Four of a kind | 10 to 1 |
| Full house | 3 to 1 |
| Flush | 3 to 2 |
| Straight | 1 to 1 |
| Anything less | push |
The blind only pays when you beat the dealer. Lose the hand and it goes with the rest.
| Your five card hand | Pays | Odds |
|---|---|---|
| Royal flush | 50 to 1 | 1 in 30,940 |
| Straight flush | 40 to 1 | 1 in 3,591 |
| Four of a kind | 30 to 1 | 1 in 595 |
| Full house | 8 to 1 | 1 in 39 |
| Flush | 7 to 1 | 1 in 33 |
| Straight | 4 to 1 | 1 in 22 |
| Three of a kind | 3 to 1 | 1 in 21 |
| Anything less | lose |
The bonus is settled on your own seven cards alone. The dealer does not come into it, and neither does folding.
| Your five card hand | Pays |
|---|---|
| Royal flush, using at least one of your own cards | 100% of the main jackpot |
| Royal flush lying on the board alone | 100% of the secondary jackpot |
| Straight flush | 1,500 |
| Four of a kind | 500 |
| Full house | 50 |
| Anything less | lose |
A fixed 5 USDG a hand, into the same two jackpots the blackjack table feeds. Settled on your own seven cards, whether or not you folded.
One deck, shuffled fresh for every hand. Nine cards come out of it — your two, the dealer's two and five on the board — and no card can appear twice.
You post two equal bets before the deal: the ante and the blind. You may also take the bonus bet, which is the same size again, and the progressive, which is a fixed stake.
Then you are dealt two cards, and the dealer takes two face down.
You may make exactly one play bet, at any of three moments, and the earlier you take it the bigger it may be.
Before the flop: four times the ante, or three times.
After the flop: twice the ante.
After the turn and river: once the ante.
If you have not bet by then, you fold, and the ante and blind are lost.
The dealer needs a pair or better to qualify. If the dealer does not qualify, your ante is returned rather than paid — the play bet is settled either way.
Beat the dealer: the play bet pays even money, and the ante pays even money if the dealer qualified.
Tie the dealer: everything pushes.
Lose to the dealer: the ante, the blind and the play bet all go.
The blind is settled on the strength of your own five card hand, on the table opposite, and only when you have won. Below a straight it pushes.
Each street comes from a drand beacon produced after the decision before it. The flop cannot be read from your hole cards, and the dealer's hand does not exist until you have stopped betting.
Commit early and there are fewer stages to wait through — the same direction the paytable is already pushing you.
A hand left for an hour is acted on for you: checked where checking is free, folded at the river where it is not. A hand waiting on a beacon that never arrives is refunded in full.
The progressive is the same bet the blackjack table takes on sevens, from the other side: one fixed stake, no sizing decision, and the two pools it pays from are the two pools that table already feeds. Both games grow one pot between them, and neither jackpot ever resets — a hit reseeds it from reserve and it starts climbing again.
A royal flush made with at least one of the cards in your hand takes the whole main jackpot. A royal flush lying entirely on the board is the table's hand rather than yours, and takes the secondary jackpot instead. Below that, three fixed lines pay from the bet's own bankroll: 1,500 for a straight flush, 500 for four of a kind, 50 for a full house.
Of every stake, 30% goes straight to the pools and the three fixed lines return 51.1%. What is left backs those lines, and once that bankroll is above the level it needs to stay solvent, the surplus is pushed into the jackpots too. Nobody takes a cut on the way through.
No rake here either. The house's advantage is the paytables and nothing else.
The bonus is the seven line paytable dealt at Club Pierre Charron, and it is exact to three decimals: it holds 3.498% of the bonus bet. That is a calculation, not a sample — tools/trips.mjs walks all 133,784,560 seven card hands of a 52 card deck and counts them.
The ante, blind and play bets are different, because they depend on how well you play. The deliberately simple strategy written into tools/edge.mjs — four times the ante with any pair, any ace or a big king; twice with a pair using a hole card; otherwise one time unless your two cards add nothing at all — measures 13.6% of the ante over 400,000 hands. That is a measurement of that strategy, not of the game. The same paytables played well are worth a fraction of it, and the script is there for you to change and re-run.