Open Russian 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.
3. Each player and the dealer are dealt five cards, with the dealer's bottom card turned face up.
4. 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.
5. If the player invoked either the Buy or Exchange option, then he must then decide to Fold or Play based on his new hand.
6. The Dealer then opens his cards and declares the poker value of his hand.
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. 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.
Additional combinations in Open Russian 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
- Bets: must be equal for the all playing boxes of one player.
- The number of playing boxes per table: the maximum number of playing boxes is 4.
- The number of a player’s playing boxes: one player can play with any number of boxes.
If there are more than one guest, everyone can play with any number of boxes, however not exceeding 4, with the bets of one guest being equal.
A guest opens one of the boxes himself; the rest are opened with the dealer service. - Insurance: available.
- A game for the dealer: available.
Pay table:
| Royal flush | 100 : 1 |
| Straight flush | 50 : 1 |
| Four of a kind | 20 : 1 |
| Full house | 7 : 1 |
| Flush | 5 : 1 |
| Straight | 4 : 1 |
| Three of a kind | 3 : 1 |
| Three pairs | 2 : 1 |
| Two pairs | 1 : 1 |
| Pair or Ace/King | 1 : 1 |