Russian Poker

To start the game, you need to place an Ante bet before the hand starts. After the dealer says “There are no more bets” and the hand gesture of closing bets closes bets, you can no longer touch or change your bets. Next, the dealer deals 5 cards face down to each bet box, and 5 cards to himself.

You need to look at your cards and make one of the following decisions:

• Play. This means you place cards on Bet and place a bet on them equal to two Antes.
• Don't play. You fold your cards. In this case, you lose your original Ante bet.
• Change from 1 to 5 cards or buy one additional card. In this case, you need to pay a bet equal to the Ante.

You can change cards or buy a sixth card only once. The dealer exchanges and purchases cards in the order of distribution. After you have received new cards, you can again decide whether to continue the game (to do this you need to place a bet on the Bet field equal to two Antes) or abandon the game by discarding the initial Ante bet.

You can play “light” on one or two boxes. You need to look through the cards and make decisions on the boxes one by one, as the hand progresses. Always remember that you cannot go back to boxing and change your decision - the rules do not allow this. It is not allowed to look at other people's cards.

To play, you must confirm the game with Ante and Bet bets before the cards are dealt. When playing “dark”, you can place additional bets on the bonus.

All these bets must be made before the hand begins. Bets on light boxes must be equal to each other. Bets on dark boxes may differ in their denomination both from each other and from bets on light boxes.

If you want to play on several boxes at once, then they must be located side by side, that is, sequentially one after another. You cannot exchange cards during this game. There is also no opportunity to insure a combination or buy a game from a dealer.

If you have a combination of “Three of the same type” or higher in your hands, you can insure it against “No Game” from the dealer before opening the dealer’s cards. To do this, you need to place a bet from an amount equal to your Ante to 100% of the expected payout for the combination that you collected - within the maximum payout of the table.

The total payout on the box (combination + insurance) cannot exceed the maximum payout of the table.

If the dealer has “No Game”, then the insurance bet wins and is paid in a 1:1 ratio. If the dealer has any of the poker combinations, the insurance bet loses. The exception is the situation when the dealer's combination is higher than the combination on the box, and also when the combinations of the dealer and the player are equal. In this case, the insurance does not lose, that is, it is not collected and paid for.

After all players have made their final decision, the dealer reveals his cards. Poker combinations are compared one by one. Combinations higher than the dealer's win.

The uniqueness of Russian poker is that a player can simultaneously form two poker combinations, and both can be paid in accordance with the payout ratios. To do this, two conditions must be met:

• One of the two combinations must be higher than the dealer’s combination;
• The second combination must include at least one card that is not included in the first combination.

The second combination must include at least one card that is not included in the main combination. On five cards, the second combination can only be Ace + King.

You only get extra pay for the second hand if the main hand is greater than the dealer's hand. The total payout for combinations and insurance cannot exceed the maximum payout of the table.

If the player’s combination is greater than the dealer’s, the dealer pays only the Bet bet in accordance with the payout table. The Ante bet is not paid in this case.

If the dealer has “No Game”, the player can choose to receive an Ante or “buy a game” to the dealer, that is, exchange the dealer’s highest card for the next card from the deck for one Ante. Moreover, if the next card from the deck is identical to the one being replaced (and the dealer again has “No Game”), then the dealer, without additional payment, exchanges the highest card again, but only once.

If, after the dealer purchases the game, any combination is formed, the dealer one by one opens the cards of the players who participated in the purchase of the game and compares the combination of each box with his own combination.

After buying a game from the dealer, a combination may be formed that is higher than yours: in this case, your box loses - the Ante and Bet bets are taken by the dealer.

If, after purchasing a game from the dealer, “No game” again, then Bet’s bet is not paid and is not collected.

The insurance bet does not exclude the possibility of the dealer purchasing the game.

If the dealer and the player have the same combinations, the winner is determined by the highest card. If there is none, then a “draw” occurs: the player’s bet does not lose, but does not win either.

Before the start of the distribution, in addition to the regular Ante bet, the player can make an additional bet on the bonus: it is paid before the players start exchanging and purchasing cards.

	Combinations	Payout Ratio
	Two pairs / Two Pairs	2:1
	Three of a Kind	7:1
	Street / Straight	40:1
	Flash / Flush	50:1
	Full House / Full House	70:1
	Four of a Kind	200:1
	Straight Flush	% of jackpot
	Royal Flush	% of jackpot