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Fast action hold’em poker is played with six standard 52-card decks. To win, you need to create a better poker hand than the dealer, using two cards in your hand and five community cards in the flop.

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If you have a higher poker hand than the dealer, you win even money. If you have the same hand as the dealer, or he has a higher hand, you lose.

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  1. Highest pair, 8s and up
  2. Any pair, suited, 2s to 7s
  3. Any pair, 2s to 7s
  4. Ace-high, suited
  5. 10-J or better, suited
  6. 10-J or better
  7. Ace-high
  8. Face card high, suited
  9. Face card high
  10. Connected cards, suited
  11. Connected cards
  12. Two highest cards, suited
  13. Two highest cards2. A-J or better

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You can make an optional bonus wager, which pays if you get any of the hands on the bonus pay table. If any player at the table gets a five of a kind or higher, an envy bonus is paid out to everyone who made a fortune bonus bet of $5 or more.

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Hand value Bonus payout
Five of a kind, suited 1000 to 1
Royal flush 200 to 1
Straight flush 75 to 1
Five of a kind 40 to 1
Four of a kind 7 to 1
Full house 3 to 1
Flush 2 to 1
Straight 1 to 1
Three of a kind Push

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Hand value Bonus payout
Five of a kind, suited $1,000
Royal flush $250
Straight flush $50
Five of a kind $10

Step by step

Step 1

Place your bet.

Step 2

The dealer deals you four cards, face down, and takes four himself, also face down.

Step 3

Look at your cards. Keep two, and discard the other two. The dealer does the same, selecting his cards according to the “house way,” a set of house rules that outlines how the casino ranks combinations of cards.

Step 4

The dealer deals five community cards for the flop, all face up.

Step 5

Create the best poker hand possible using your two cards and the five cards in the flop. 

Step 6

Compare your hand to the dealer’s.

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