Novo Poker
1. The game is played using one 52-card deck. The game uses standard poker rules for ranking and comparing hands.
2. The player places his mandatory Ante and Express Bonus wagers. The Express Bonus must be equal or greater to the Ante wager.
3. The player may optionally make an Express Bonus based on the dealer's hand and/or on any other player's hand.
4. Each player and the dealer are dealt five cards, with the dealer's bottom card turned face up.
5. The dealer will prompt the players to declare any winning Express Bonus hands based on the player's cards. The Express Bonus pay table is indicated below.
6. In addition, if the player has a straight flush or royal flush, then his Ante bet will be paid immediately according to the Instant Payout pay table below and the cards collected.
7. Each remaining player must also make a decision to either Fold, Play, Buy, or Draw. Following are more details on each option:
- Fold: The player places his five cards face down near their Ante wager. The dealer will collect the losing Ante and the cards.
- Play: The player places a wager of 2x his Ante in their BET box on top of their cards.
- Buy: The player places 1x Ante to buy a 6th Card.
- Exchange: The player places 1x Ante to exchange 2-5 cards.
8. If the player invoked either the Buy or Exchange option, then he must then decide to Fold or Play based on his new hand.
9. The Dealer then opens his cards and declares the poker value of his hand.
10. If the dealer's hand contains an Express Bonus combination, any Express Bonus wagers on the dealer's hand will be paid out immediately according to the Express Bonus Pay Table below.
11. If the dealer qualifies with a hand of Ace-King or higher, then the dealer will then open and settle each player's hand as follows:
- Player wins: Ante pushes and Raise is paid according to pay table below.
- Tie: Both Ante and Raise push.
- Dealer wins: Both Ante and Raise lose.
12. If the dealer cannot open with ace-king or better, then the Ante will pay even money and the Raise will push, regardless of the poker value of the player's hand.
13. If a player's winning hand also contains a second poker combination, then the player will be paid for both combinations, even if the second combination doesn't beat the dealer's hand. For the second combination to qualify, it must contain at least one card which wasn't included in the first winning combination.
Express Bonus Pay table:
| Four of a kind | 250 : 1 |
| 5 picture cards | 120 : 1 |
| Full house | 100 : 1 |
| Flush | 60 : 1 |
| Straight | 30 : 1 |
| Three of a kind | 8 : 1 |
| Ace-King-Queen | 5 : 1 |
| 5 cards same color | 2 : 1 |
Instant payout:
| Royal flush | 1000 : 1 |
| Straight flush | 500 : 1 |
- Player may insure his hand with any combination pays 2 to 1 or better. The insurance bet will always lose if the dealer qualifies and lose or tie. If the dealer wins, the insurance is pushes. The minimum insurance bet is 2x ante and the maximum is half of the possible win amount. Insurance pays 1 to 1.
- With a cost of 1x ante, the player may, if dealer doesn't qualify, exchange one card (always the highest one) from the dealers hand to make the dealer to qualify. Player hand will push (no ante will be paid) if the dealer still doesn't qualify after this.
Additional combinations in Novo Poker:
With 5 cards:
- JJ3АК – pair + pair (ace-king)
- 22AAK – two pairs + pair (ace-king)
- 101010AK – three of a kind + pair (ace-king)
- KKKKA – four of a kind + pair (ace-king)
With 6 cards:
- 2234AK – pair + pair (ace-king)
- 234AAK – pair + pair (ace-king)
- 2233AK – two pairs + pair (ace-king)
- 2266QQ – two pairs (QQ66) + two pairs (QQ22)
- 4448AK – three of a kind + pair (ace-king)
- 567895 (different suits) – straight + straight
- KA2345 (different suits) – straight + pair (ace-king)
- 8910JQ7 (different suits) – straight + straight
- 9JQKA (same suit) 10 (of another suit) – flush + straight
- 35689 (same suit) 3 (of another suit) – flush + pair
- 5689JK (same suit) – flush + flush
- 555AAK – full + pair (ace-king)
- 444QQQ – full + full
- 7777JJ – four of a kind + full
- A2345 (same suit) + K (of another suit) – straight-flush + pair (ace-king)
- A2345 (same suit) + K (of the same suit) – straight-flush + flush
- 910JQK (same suit) A (of another suit) – straight-flush + straight
- 5678910 (same suit) – straight-flush + straight-flush
- 9 (of another suit) 10JQKA (same suit) – straight + royal-flush
- 910JQKA (same suit) – straight-flush + royal-flush