Casino Poker Strategy: Let it Ride

Since Let It Ride Poker is a casino game with an element of skill, issues of strategy are more relevant to play since they can ensure that you are keeping the game's house edge as low to its minimum possible value, in other words improving your odds of winning. For Let It Ride Poker the typical house edge (assuming ‘perfect play') at the best UK online casinos is 3.51%

The core strategic issue to consider when aiming for ‘perfect play' of Let it Ride at any casino, is the decision to keep or pull bets on the table based on the known cards. With that in mind, a good basic strategy that is easy to learn and gets close to the ideal is as follows:

Following the initial deal of three cards, only Let It Ride (keeping all your three chips on the table) if:

1. You hold a minimum qualifying hand for a payout (usually a pair of tens, but always check the advertised rules marked on the table your playing).
2. The three cards could form a Royal Flush in combination with two more favourable cards.
3. The three cards are of the same suit in a sequence better than 2, 3, 4.
4. The three cards could form a straight flush and (a) one is a ten or better, and (b) two are of consecutive value (e.g. 7, 8 or 10, J).
5. The three cards could form a straight flush and (a) none are of consecutive value (e.g. 9 ,J, K or 6, 8, 10) but (b) two are tens or better.

Following the deal of the fourth card only keep the all the remaining bet on if:

1. You hold the table's minimum qualifying hand for a payout.
2. The four cards could make either a Royal Flush, Straight Flush or Flush on the turn of the next dealt card.
3. The four cards are of consecutive value, including one ten or better, that could form a straight.
4. The four cards of consecutive value that could make a straight.
5. The four cards are all tens or better but are not all in consecutive value, and could make a straight (e.g. 10, J, K, A.)