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LET YOUR FIRST BET RIDE ONLY IF YOU HAVE ONE OF THE FOLLOWING:

1. Any paying hand (tens or better, three of a kind, etc.)
   
   
   
   
2. Three consecutive cards to a Straight Flush except A𣇽 or 2𣛪
   
   
   
   
3. Three cards to a Straight Flush with one gap and at least one high card(ten or greater)
   
   
   
   
4. Three cards to a Straight Flush with two gaps and at least two high cards
   
   
   
   
5. Any three to a royal flush
   
   

LET YOUR SECOND BET RIDE ONLY IF YOU HAVE ONE OF THE FOLLOWING:

1. Any paying hand (tens or better, three of a kind, etc.)
   
   
   
   
2. Any four cards to a Flush
   
   
   
   
3. Four cards to an Outside Straight(four cards to a straight that can be completed by drawing a card at either end) with at least one high card
   
   
   
   
4. Four cards to an Outside Straight with no high cards(has no house advantage)
   
   
   
   
5. Four non-consecutive high cards(has no house advantage)
   
   

HOUSE EDGE
There are 311,875,200 ways to choose 5 cards out of 52, with regard to the order chosen. The total amount the player would lose, assuming perfect strategy, over all possible combinations is 10,933,344. The house edge is defined as the average player loss to the minimum bet, or 10,933,344/311,875,200 = 3.5056792%.

The total amount bet over all combinations is 384,256,512. The "element of risk" is defined as the average loss to the average bet or 10,933,344/384,256,512 = 2.8453243%.