- Maths reviewed by Josh Miller
- Tested by Diana Westfield
This Let It Ride calculator works out your payout on any hand with one, two or all three bets still out, and what the game costs you per hour. Let It Ride is the poker table game where you can take back two of your three bets as the cards come out, which is why it’s gentler than it looks. It’s free and it uses the standard pay table.
Let It Ride odds and payout chart
These figures assume perfect strategy and a single 52-card deck, worked out over every possible deal:
| Final hand | Pays | Chance | About 1 in |
|---|---|---|---|
| Royal flush | 1000 to 1 | 0.0002% | 649,740 |
| Straight flush | 200 to 1 | 0.0014% | 72,193 |
| Four of a kind | 50 to 1 | 0.024% | 4,165 |
| Full house | 11 to 1 | 0.144% | 694 |
| Flush | 8 to 1 | 0.197% | 509 |
| Straight | 5 to 1 | 0.39% | 255 |
| Three of a kind | 3 to 1 | 2.11% | 47 |
| Two pair | 2 to 1 | 4.75% | 21 |
| Pair of 10s or better | 1 to 1 | 16.25% | 6.2 |
| Anything less | loses | 76.12% | 1.3 |
Three hands in four lose. That’s fine, because on most of those you’ve already taken two bets back.
Let It Ride 3-card bonus payouts
The optional bonus bet pays on your first three cards only. Two pay tables are common:
| Hand | About 1 in | Table A | Table B |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mini royal or straight flush | 460 | 40 to 1 | 40 to 1 |
| Three of a kind | 425 | 30 to 1 | 30 to 1 |
| Straight | 30.7 | 6 to 1 | 6 to 1 |
| Flush | 20.2 | 3 to 1 | 4 to 1 |
| Pair | 5.9 | 1 to 1 | 1 to 1 |
| House edge | 7.28% | 2.32% | |
One point on the flush moves the edge by almost five points, so read the felt before you put a chip on it.
When to let it ride
You see three cards, then decide on bet one. You see a fourth, then decide on bet two. The third bet always stays.
- After three cards: let it ride with a pair of 10s or better, three of a kind, three to a royal flush, or three suited cards in a row (3-4-5 suited or higher). Pull everything else.
- After four cards: let it ride with a paying pair or better, four to a flush, or four to an open-ended straight made of 10s or higher. Pull the rest, including small pairs.
It’s a tight strategy. Played right, you pull the first bet on about 93% of hands and the second on about 85%. On average you leave 1.22 of your three bets on the table.
What it costs
The house edge is 3.51% of one base bet, so at £10 a circle and 50 hands an hour you lose about £17.50 an hour on average. Since you bet 1.22 units a hand on average, that’s 2.86% of what you actually wager. The 3-card bonus side bet, where offered, costs much more. For a game where you raise instead of pulling back, see the CasinoCalcs Casino Hold’em strategy calculator or the Caribbean Stud calculator. The poker hand rankings page has every hand if you need a refresher.
For every let-it-ride decision on one printable page, see the Let It Ride strategy chart, which also checks any three or four cards.
Three bets out at once can drain a bankroll fast. BeGambleAware.org can help if it already has.