Play Let It Ride Poker Online
Three bets. Five cards. One exciting ride.
Play for fun, learn the game and master your strategy.
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Press Deal to start a hand. Three equal bets go up; you can pull the first two back.
Basic strategy
How to Play Let It Ride
Let It Ride is played against a pay table, not against the dealer or the other players. You are dealt three cards of your own, and two community cards are placed face down and revealed one at a time. Your final hand is all five cards together — there is nothing to choose between them.
- Place three equal bets before the deal. In this game they are marked 1st, 2nd and $.
- Look at your three cards. Decision one: let the 1st bet ride, or pull it back.
- The first community card is revealed. Decision two: let the 2nd bet ride, or pull it back.
- The final community card is revealed and the hand is paid.
The $ bet can never be withdrawn — it stays in action for the whole hand. That is the trade at the heart of the game: you commit three bets up front, then get two chances to take money back once you know more. The full sequence is covered in the rules guide.
Let It Ride Payouts
The lowest winning hand is a pair of tens. Anything below that loses. Every bet still in action is paid at the same rate, so a strong hand with all three bets up pays three times what it would on one. These are the payouts this game uses:
| Hand | Pays |
|---|---|
| Royal Flush | 1,000:1 |
| Straight Flush | 200:1 |
| Four of a Kind | 50:1 |
| Full House | 11:1 |
| Flush | 8:1 |
| Straight | 5:1 |
| Three of a Kind | 3:1 |
| Two Pair | 2:1 |
| Pair of Tens or Better | 1:1 |
| Anything Lower | Loses |
Real casinos vary these numbers, and a changed pay table can change the correct strategy. The odds guide shows how the arithmetic works.
Using the Game Controls
- Bet per spot — the − and + buttons set the size of each of the three bets. At 25 per spot your total stake is 75, shown beside your balance.
- Deal — puts all three bets up and deals your three cards.
- Let It Ride — leaves the current bet in action and reveals the next community card.
- Pull Back — returns the current bet to your balance, then reveals the next card.
- Strategy hints — before each decision, a panel names your hand and shows what basic strategy says to do, with the reason. Use the Strategy hints button under the table to switch it off if you would rather test yourself; the end-of-hand summary still tells you whether you played correctly.
You can only change the bet size between hands. Reload the page to reset the balance to 1,000.
Playing With Virtual Chips
This game is free and for practice only. The chips have no monetary value, cannot be bought, cashed out or transferred, and there is no account or sign-up. Your balance lives in the page only for as long as it is open and is never saved or transmitted — reload to start again at 1,000. This site stores two small items in your browser and nothing else: your choice from the privacy notice, and your Daily Challenge progress. Neither is sent to a server — see the cookies page.
This site is not a casino and takes no wagers. It exists to explain the game: read the introduction, the rules, and the basic strategy chart that tells you which hands are worth keeping in action.
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