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Are you ready to move on from the boring slots games and start gambling for real. If you want to regain some control of how much you’ve already placed in the pot, and you’re looking for it in a poker game, some would argue Let it Ride affords you the ability to do just that – remove bets from the middle depending on the current strength of your hand. Of course, there’s much more to the game than just that, so let’s take a look.

Let it Ride is a poker themed game found in most casinos throughout the United States. The object is to beat a pair of tens…at least. You have to make a poker hand that ranks equal to or higher than this amount in order to win any money. Throughout the game, if you don’t think your hand is gonna quick have what it takes to get you there, you can take bets back. If you do, you can…wait for it…. “let it ride!”

The rules: Players start by offering a trio of bets, all of the same amount. After they’ve been placed, each player receives three cards, hidden. Two hidden community cards are also placed on the table.

After you see your part of the hand, you can take back one of your three bets if you like.

The PartyPoker.com dealer then turns the first community card. Once gain, players face the same choice as before, remove a bet or let it ride. Important to note here, you don’t have to follow any pattern. If you removed before, you can still do whatever you want the second time. There’s no correlation between rounds.

Now dealer flips the last community card. At this point, your bet is your bet, and your winning is determined solely on the strength of your hand. You don’t play against any dealer hand in this game.

Strategy, like in any other game, is involved, and something I’ll go into at a later date in more detail.

Payouts, what everyone wants to know. How much can I win on any US online casino playing let it ride? There is a commonly accepted standard for most casinos, although some might differ slightly depending on where you play.

The odds are a bit better than Caribbean Stud once you get above the three of a kind barrier. A Pair tens or better is 1:1. Two pair is 2:1. Three of a kind is 3:1. A straight jumps you to 5:1, flush is at 8:1, full house is at 11:1…all the way up to a Royal Flush at a cool 1,000:1.

My advice here. If you’re not the most patient of absolute poker players when it comes to action, I’d skip this game. Unless you pull multiple upper-echelon hands in the same sitting, it’s going to be tough to swing the chip count wildly in your favor over a short period of time. It’s a fun game, doesn’t require as much strategy, reading or decision making as other poker games, but you can still lose a nice chunk of change if you make the wrong calls repeatedly while sitting on a cold run of cards.