Free Teen Patti
The casino table version, played against the dealer for chips that are worth nothing, with the one decision it asks of you graded every hand.
Play chips
1,000
No real money, no prizes, nothing to buy.
Against the dealer · one deck · shuffled every hand
25 chips down, and 25 more if you play.
- Hands, best first:
- Trail · Pure sequence · Sequence · Color · Pair · High card
- Ante Bonus pays, to 1:
- Trail 4 · Pure sequence 5 · Sequence 1
Session coach
Last round
Nothing played yet. After each of your hands the coach says what the round cost and what decided it.
There is nobody here to bluff
In the traditional game, betting is how you push other players out of the pot. At this table the dealer never folds and cannot be read, so the Play bet is not a bluff. It is a second bet the size of the Ante, and it is only worth making when your three cards earn it. The cards that do are queen-6-4 or better.
Next bet
25 chips at a 3.37% house edge: an expected cost of 0.8 chips.
- Hands played
- 0
- Chips bet in total
- 0
- Bets raised after a loss
- 0
Where the result came from
- House edge, on average
- 0
- Decisions on strategy
- None yet
- Your off-strategy plays
- 0
- Luck
- 0
- Result
- 0
The report fills in as you play.
Set a session limit
Your leaks
None recorded. A spot you play off the best strategy is listed here so you can practise it, and drops off once you get it right three times running. The list is kept in this browser only.
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Play or fold coach
Every play or fold is priced against all the hands the dealer can hold from the rest of the deck. Folding always costs the Ante. Playing is right whenever it costs less than that, and the coach says what the other choice gave up in chips. The cards decide whether a hand wins. The decision is the part you control.
This is the casino version against the dealer, not the game played among friends. See what Teen Patti costs next to other dealer games
This session
- Hands played
- 0
- Right calls
- None yet
- Net chips
- 0
- Given up by your calls
- 0
- On average, against the right call
- Expected at perfect play
- 0
- 0 in Antes at 3.37%
- House edge
- 3.37%
- Of the Ante
Expected is the house edge taken on your Antes, which assumes every call was the right one. Whatever your calls gave up comes on top. A short session swings well away from both in either direction.
Built by Alexander Korsager · last updated October 3, 2026 · corrections
- House edge on the Ante with every call made correctly
- 3.37%
- Dealer hands the coach prices each Play bet against
- 18,424
- Of hands that are right to play
- 67.4%
- Of hands the dealer qualifies on
- 69.6%
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One call, priced in chips
Teen Patti is best known as a game played among friends, with a pot, blind and seen players and rounds of betting. This is not that game.
This is the version casinos deal, where you play one three-card hand against the dealer: you put up an Ante, look at your cards, and make a single choice between a Play bet of the same size and folding. Nobody else's hand affects yours and there is nobody to bluff.
Among friends
- A shared pot
- Blind and seen players
- Rounds of betting
- Bluffing
At this table
- One Ante
- One three-card hand against the dealer
- One choice: play or fold
- Nobody to bluff
The casino version keeps Teen Patti's hand rankings and nothing else.
That one choice has a right answer every time, and the coach works it out exactly.
It prices the Play bet against every hand the dealer can hold from the rest of the deck, tells you which call was right, and tells you what yours gave up in chips. Played perfectly, the game costs 3.37% of the Ante on average. That is the lowest it goes: the right calls keep the cost down, they do not beat the game.
Queen-6-4
- Playing averages
- −24.8
- Folding is
- −25.0
play
Queen-6-3
- Playing averages
- −25.1
- Folding is
- −25.0
fold
In chips, counted over all 18,424 hands the dealer can hold. Both choices cost chips on average. The right call is the one that costs fewer.
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Rules at this table
| Hand | Ante Bonus | Of 22,100 hands |
|---|---|---|
| Trail | 4 to 1 | 52 |
| Pure sequence | 5 to 1 | 48 |
| Sequence | 1 to 1 | 720 |
| Color | None | 1,096 |
| Pair | None | 3,744 |
| High card | None | 16,440 |
The Ante Bonus is paid on the Ante whenever you play a sequence or better, whatever the dealer holds.
Trail of 9s
Pure sequence, ace-king-queen
Sequence, ace-2-3
Color, king high
Pair of jacks
Ace high
- One 52-card deck, shuffled before every hand.
- You and the dealer get three cards each. The dealer's stay face down until you decide.
- Hands rank, from the top: trail (three of a kind), pure sequence (three in a row in one suit), sequence (three in a row), color (three of one suit), pair, high card.
- Among sequences, ace-king-queen is the highest, ace-2-3 is the second highest, and then king-queen-jack down to 4-3-2.
- Bet the Ante to be dealt in. Then either make the Play bet, which always equals the Ante, or fold. Folding gives up the Ante.
- The dealer needs queen high or better to qualify. If the dealer does not qualify, the Ante pays 1 to 1 and the Play bet is returned.
- If the dealer qualifies, the higher hand wins: Ante and Play each pay 1 to 1 when yours is higher, both lose when it is lower, and both are returned on a tie.
The Ante takes 5 to 500 chips, and the table only takes an Ante you can also cover a Play bet for. No side bets are dealt.
- P
- Play
- F
- Fold
- Enter
- Deal
FAQ
- Is this Teen Patti game played for real money?
- No. The table uses play chips that have no value, cannot be bought, and cannot be cashed out or exchanged for anything. If you run out, you are handed another stack for free. There is no account and nothing to download.
- Is this the same Teen Patti that is played at home?
- No. The traditional game is played among several people for a shared pot, with a boot, blind and seen play, raises, side shows and a showdown, and how you bet matters as much as what you hold. This is the house-banked casino version: your three cards against the dealer's three, one Ante, and one decision to play or fold. It keeps Teen Patti's hand rankings and nothing else. The odds are fixed by the rules, and they favor the house.
- When should I play and when should I fold?
- Play queen-6-4 or better, which means any pair or better, any ace high or king high, and queen high down to queen-6-4. Fold queen-6-3 and everything below it. That plays 67.4% of hands and folds the other 32.6%. The coach grades the decision, not the outcome: a right call can still lose the hand.
- What is the house edge in Teen Patti against the dealer?
- With every call made correctly, 3.37% of the Ante, or about 0.84 chips a hand on a 25-chip Ante. Spread over every chip the Ante and Play bets put down, it is about 2.01%. Wrong calls cost more on top, and the coach adds up how much.
How this game works
Every hand is dealt from one 52-card deck, shuffled in your browser with a Fisher-Yates shuffle so that every ordering is equally likely. Nothing about the deal depends on your bets, your balance or your results. Hands are ranked the Teen Patti way. Of the 22,100 possible three-card hands, 52 are trails, 48 are pure sequences, 720 are sequences, 1,096 are colors, 3,744 are pairs and 16,440 are high-card hands. The site's tests count every one.
The coach does not use a rule of thumb. Once your three cards are out, the dealer can hold any of 18,424 hands from the other 49 cards. The coach walks all of them, counts how often the dealer fails to qualify, how often you win and how often you lose, and adds your Ante Bonus if the hand earns one. That is the average value of playing. Folding is always worth minus one Ante, so playing is right whenever it is worth more than that.
The house edge is the same sum taken over every hand you can be dealt: 22,100 player hands against 18,424 dealer hands each, about 407 million comparisons, taking the better of playing and folding every time. It comes to 3.37% of the Ante, with the dealer qualifying on 69.6% of hands. The exact answers turn out to be one clean cutoff, queen-6-4, and the tests check that no hand breaks it.
The Ante Bonus pays the same amounts as the standard three-card ante and play game, hand type for hand type, which is why the pure sequence pays more than the trail that outranks it: there are fewer of them. For that game's own figures, see the Three Card Poker odds tool. The expected figure in the session panel is the house edge taken on your Antes and assumes every call was right.
Limits
- The right call uses only your own three cards. It is not a way of reading the dealer, and it does not turn the game in your favor.
- Casinos differ on the details: some rank ace-2-3 differently, pay a different Ante Bonus, or add side bets on your own cards. Each of those games has its own house edge and is not dealt here.
- Nothing here carries over to the traditional game among friends, where the other players' betting is the whole contest.
- Play chips do not feel like money. Decisions that are easy here are harder with a real stake on the table.
This is a practice game for adults. It has no real-money play and links to none. Teen Patti played against a dealer for money has a house edge on every hand, and no amount of practice removes it.
Gambling can cause serious harm. The National Problem Gambling Helpline is free, confidential and open 24/7, call or text 1-800-MY-RESET (1-800-697-3738), or chat at ncpgambling.org/chat.
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