At the top of the pay table, a straight flush usually brings a 40-1 payoff and three of a kind brings 30-1. In Pair Plus, the big rewards come when you’re dealt a straight flush or three of a kind, or in some casinos, a mini-royal.Payoffs may vary in different casinos, but all start at 1-1 on a pair. You wouldn’t play a game that you won only a quarter of the time if there wasn’t the possibility of the big rewards. Regardless of whether the casino where you play pays mini-royals separately, winning hands make up 25.6 percent of the total. In casinos that pay mini-royals separately, the frequency of Pair Plus hands looks like this: Mini-royal Paying the mini-royals separately subtracts four combinations from the straight flush total. There are four mini-royals – one for each suit. Mini-royals consist of Ace, King and Queen of the same suit. Some casinos add a mini-royal to the top of the pay table. That’s why in Pair Plus, straights pay more than flushes, as you’ll see below. Note that flushes occur more often than straights. Queen of clubs, 9 of hearts, 3 of diamonds No pair or better (losing hands in Pair Plus) Here are the numbers of combinations for each hand rank: Hand There are 22,100 possible three-card combinations in which card order doesn’t matter. When you bet on Pair Plus in online casinos or live casinos, you win any time your three cards include a pair, flush, straight, three of a kind or straight flush.

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