Play your best five-card hand against the dealer. Bet big early with a strong hand, or wait and see — the choice is yours.
Dealer
Dealer needs a pair or better to qualify — if they don't, your Ante pushes.
You
Ante and Blind always stay equal — betting one bets both.
Pick a chip, click Ante or Blind to bet it (they stay equal). Holding $25.
Play a hand to see your decisions highlighted here.
Pre-flop strategy is verified against Wizard of Odds' official "Decision Point 1" table (described as exact, memorizable perfect play) and cross-checked hand-by-hand against an independent multi-day combinatorial computation — all 169 starting hands match exactly. Flop strategy follows Wizard of Odds' documented practical rule, shown to sacrifice under 0.4% EV versus the full exhaustive table in independent analysis. The river decision isn't looked up at all — every possible dealer hand is individually evaluated against your exact cards to compute the true answer fresh each time. Some tables also offer a 3x pre-flop bet for realism, but mathematically it's never better than betting 4x or checking — the chart only ever recommends one or the other.