Atlassino Academy · Other tables · Lesson 14
Póker Oasis: the card you buy after the bet
Póker Oasis is five-card poker against the casino, as the national lottery wrote it for Casino Buenos Aires: an Ante, a bet of twice the Ante, one card you may buy only after the bet, and a jackpot bet on the first five cards.
You hold four spades and a heart, and the bank shows a nine. At this table you may buy a card, but only once you have put in the bet. Is the hand worth voy?
The short answer
Yes, if you then buy the card. By our count, voy and then a card in place of the heart comes to −29.81% of the Ante on average, against −100.00% for paso and −122.36% for voy without the card. In póker Oasis the card is bought after the bet, so a hand that needs a card is worth the bet only because of the card that follows it.
Whose rule book this is. Resolution 85/2010 is a document of Lotería Nacional S.E., the national lottery, approving the rules of this game for the rooms run by Casino Buenos Aires S.A. The national lottery has since been put into liquidation by decree 95 of 2018. A December 2025 bulletin of the Supreme Court summarises a ruling (Fallos 348:179) on the extension of a long-expired gaming contract, an extension that kept the city lottery of Buenos Aires from using its powers; the bulletin does not name a room. So this page reads the rule book as a document of the national lottery for Casino Buenos Aires. It does not say that any table in the city plays by it today.
Leoformer dealer · rules and maths
Five cards against the casino’s five, with one card of the bank’s showing. The twist is the order: you commit the bet first, and only then may you pay for a new card. Everything below is from one rule book, and every number is counted from it.
Whose rule book this is
The rules on this page are those of the national lottery’s rule book for “poker con descarte en la variante Oasis”, written for the rooms of Casino Buenos Aires S.A. in Buenos Aires City (CABA). In 2016 the national lottery still named “póker Oasis” among the games whose minimum and maximum bets lie inside a band it sets; each table sets its own limits inside that band.
The status of the document is not simple. The national lottery has been put into liquidation, and a Supreme Court ruling concerns the gaming contract in the city; the note under the short answer gives both with their sources. Read this page as an account of what the rule book says, not as a promise of what a table plays tonight.
Poker against the casino
The rule book calls the game a banked card game in which each player, with five cards, plays against the bank to hold a higher hand than the bank’s. The table is the size of a blackjack table, with up to seven players and one betting box each; the deck has fifty-two cards; players standing round the table may not bet, and every bet is in the casino’s chips.
The ace counts high, and also low in ace-two-three-four-five. Once the cards are dealt, players may not share anything about their hands; doing so voids the hand.
One hand, from the Ante to the payout
To receive cards you put in an Ante, before the deal; the jackpot bet, if you make one, goes in at the same time. Each player gets five cards face down, and the bank gets five, the last one face up.
Ante
Every seated player puts in the Ante, and, if they like, the jackpot bet.
Five cards
Five to each player face down; five to the bank, the last one face up.
Voy or paso
Voy: a bet of exactly twice the Ante. Paso: the Ante is lost.
Buy one?
Only after voy: one card, for the amount of the Ante.
The bank
Turns its cards over: it qualifies with an ace and a king, or more.
Paid
Each hand against the bank on its own; equal hands are a standoff.
Unlike póker mediterráneo (lesson 9.13), four things change your decisions here: the card is bought after the bet, high cards can be paid, equal hands are a standoff, and the side bet is a jackpot judged on the first five cards.
Voy or paso
A player who says paso gives up the Ante. A player who says voy puts in a bet of exactly twice the Ante: 20 units on an Ante of 10 units.
By our count, a pair of twos against a five showing is worth voy: −94.33% of the Ante on average, a smaller loss than the −100.00% of paso. With no pair, the ace and king alone are not: ace, king, seven, nine, three against a five comes to −110.25%. Ace, king, queen, nine, three against a two is just worth it, at −97.67%, because high cards that are higher than the bank’s are paid at this table.
Buying a card, after the bet
Each player may change one card of their choice, at the price of the Ante. The order matters: the dealer asks whether you will bet, and only a player who says voy is then asked whether to buy a card. The new card is the first card of the deck. The bank never changes a card: it plays the five it was dealt.
So the question “is this hand worth voy?” includes the card you might buy after it. You see your five cards and the bank’s one, so 46 cards are unknown to you. Holding four spades and buying in place of the heart, 9 of them make a flush and 12 make a pair. With five, six, seven and eight against a two showing, 8 cards make a straight, and voy with the card comes to −57.76% of the Ante, against −100.00% for paso.
A card is not always worth its price. With a pair of nines against an ace showing, voy and keeping the five comes to +15.37% of the Ante; buying a card in place of the three comes to −27.32%.
The bank’s ace and king
The bank qualifies only if its cards hold at least an ace and a king, or a higher hand. When it does not, each player still in the hand is paid an amount equal to the Ante; the rule book pays the Ante alone. We read the bet as coming back.
Over a full deck, by our count, the bank does not qualify on 43.68% of hands. With the five showing and the pair of twos above, it qualifies on 56.93% of the ways its other four cards can fall.
The pay table, high cards and standoffs
Against a bank that qualifies, a higher hand is paid the bet by the table and the Ante 1 to 1; a lower hand loses everything in its box. The table pays from 1 to 1 for high cards up to 100 to 1 for a royal flush.
| Hand | Pays | On 20 units | How often |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cartas mayores | 1 to 1 | 20 units | 50.12% |
| Pareja | 1 to 1 | 20 units | 42.26% |
| Doble pareja | 2 to 1 | 40 units | 4.75% |
| Trío | 3 to 1 | 60 units | 2.11% |
| Escalera | 4 to 1 | 80 units | 0.39% |
| Color | 5 to 1 | 100 units | 0.20% |
| Full | 7 to 1 | 140 units | 0.14% |
| Póker | 20 to 1 | 400 units | 1 in 4,165 |
| Escalera de color | 50 to 1 | 1,000 units | 1 in 72,193 |
| Escalera real de color | 100 to 1 | 2,000 units | 1 in 649,740 |
High cards count as a hand for the player: with no pair, your cards are compared with the bank’s, highest first, then the next, and so on. The bank qualifies on an ace and a king, so high cards can only be paid when you hold an ace and a king too and your next cards are higher.
A player is paid only with a higher hand, loses with a lower one, and in a standoff keeps the bets without any payment. Equal kinds of hand are separated by the rule book’s own steps: a full house by its three cards, a flush and a straight of any kind by the highest card, two pair by the higher pair, then the other, then the fifth card, a pair by the pair and then the highest of the other cards; the suits rank equal. Where the rule book stops, we count a standoff. That is rare: with the pair of twos against the five, 78 of the 163,185 ways the bank’s cards can fall end that way.
The jackpot bet
Alongside the hand there is a separate, optional bet, the “seguro”, for a special prize: the jackpot. It is judged on your own first five cards only, whatever the croupier holds. You may make it only with an Ante, for one to five credits, and never for more in all than the table minimum. A player who buys a card gives up any right to the jackpot. The list of prizes is posted where the table can see it.
When the jackpot is fixed, the rule book prints its table: 10,000 for a royal flush and 5,000 for a straight flush, both fixed, and from four of a kind down to a straight an amount multiplied by each seguro.
| First five cards | Pays | How often |
|---|---|---|
| Escalera real de color | 10,000, fixed | 1 in 649,740 |
| Escalera de color | 5,000, fixed | 1 in 72,193 |
| Póker | 500 for each seguro | 1 in 4,165 |
| Full | 100 for each seguro | 1 in 694 |
| Color | 50 for each seguro | 1 in 509 |
| Escalera simple | 25 for each seguro | 1 in 255 |
If each amount is counted in units of one seguro, the fixed table brings back, on average, the share of each seguro below; the rest stays with the bank. That unit is our reading: the table prints the amounts without one.
| Seguros on the hand | Back for each seguro, on average |
|---|---|
| 1 | 54.5% |
| 2 | 50.3% |
| 3 | 48.9% |
| 4 | 48.2% |
| 5 | 47.7% |
A progressive jackpot pays shares of an amount that starts at no less than 5,000 times its minimum bet and grows with play; its value is on the table’s display, not in the rule book, so this page does not count it.
Mayaformer floor supervisor · manners, money and breaks
A hand you play to the end can put four Antes on the table, and the seguro is extra. Decide the money and the time at home, keep what one hand needs in front of you, and leave the seat when either runs out.
If the jackpot starts to feel like the reason to stay, the lines below are there for exactly that.
If it stops being fun
If gambling stops being entertainment, help is available. Minimum entry age: each province sets its own. Where we found the rule or regulator that sets it, we cite it on the page; those we found set it at 18. More on responsible gaming.
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Practice: voy or paso, pay the hand
Level 1 shows your five cards and the bank’s one card showing and asks for paso, voy and keep the five, or voy and buy a card. Level 2 shows both hands after voy and asks what your hand gets on balance. The 10 units is an example Ante, not a suggested bet.
Nothing is bet here, and nothing is random. Each question is a set picture of cards, and the answer is worked out from the same rules and the same count as the rest of the page.
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BANCA
YOU
- Your hand cartas mayores (no pair)
- On the table Ante 10 units
Paso, voy and keep the five, or voy and buy a card?
- Paso: lose the Ante, 10 units Not the cheapest. Voy and buying a card in place of the four of hearts costs least here. Paso −100.00%, voy and keep the five −122.36%, voy and buy a card −29.81%, each as a share of the Ante.
- Voy, put in 20 units, and keep the five Not the cheapest. Voy and buying a card in place of the four of hearts costs least here. Paso −100.00%, voy and keep the five −122.36%, voy and buy a card −29.81%, each as a share of the Ante.
- Voy, then buy a card for the four of hearts Voy and buying a card in place of the four of hearts costs least here. Paso −100.00%, voy and keep the five −122.36%, voy and buy a card −29.81%, each as a share of the Ante.
Paso costs the Ante. Voy puts in the bet, twice the Ante, and only after that may you buy one card for the amount of the Ante. Each answer here is the cheapest of the three by our count, over every way the bank’s four hidden cards can fall and, for a bought card, every card that can come.
BANCA
YOU
- You cartas mayores (no pair)
- Banca cartas mayores (no pair)
- On the table Ante 10 units, bet 20 units
What does your hand get on balance, the Ante and the bet together?
- 30 units lost Not this one. Both bets are lost only when the bank qualifies and holds the higher hand.
- 10 units paid Not this one. The Ante alone is paid only when the bank does not qualify.
- 30 units paid The bank plays on its ace and king, and your cards are higher, card by card: cartas mayores. The Ante is paid 1 to 1 and the bet 1 to 1, 20 units.
The bank plays with an ace and a king or more. When it does not, the Ante is paid 1 to 1 and the bet comes back. When it does, the higher hand is paid the Ante 1 to 1 and the bet by the table, high cards included; the lower hand loses both; equal hands are a standoff and the bets stay where they are.
Every question in the practice run is worked out the same way: the cards are put through the same rules and the same count as the rest of the page, and the answer comes out of that, not out of anybody’s memory.
How the practice run works
Where the questions come from. Every answer is worked out when the page is built: voy and paso by counting every way the bank’s four hidden cards can fall, a bought card by counting every card that can come and then the bank’s cards again, and every payment by the rule book. The wrong answers are named mistakes: buying before the bet, the bank’s ace and king taken for no hand, high cards taken for no hand, the bet paid 1 to 1, and a standoff taken for a loss.
One strip, and no rounds. Every square on the strip is one question of this lesson, and all of the squares are there from the start. Your first answer fills the square it belongs to; when the squares of one level are full, the next level begins by itself. Practising a question you got wrong turns its cross into “fixed in practice” and does not change the count, because only first answers count.
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Check yourself
Mayaformer floor supervisor · manners, money and breaks
Five quick ones. Pick an answer, then check it. No timer, no points: just whether it stuck.
Back to the question we opened with. Yes: say voy, then buy the card. Four spades are worth the bet here because the card comes after it, and without the card the same bet costs more than paso.
Where to go next, and further reading
18+ under each province’s rules · Play responsibly · the helplines are further up this page
Further reading
- Resolución 85/2010: Reglamento de «Poker con descarte en la variante Oasis» · Lotería Nacional S.E.The rule book issued for the rooms of Casino Buenos Aires S.A.: the deal, the bet, buying a card, the bank’s ace and king, the pay table and the jackpot.
- Resolución 21/2016: banda de fluctuación de montos mínimos y máximos · Lotería Nacional S.E.The band of minimum and maximum bets that names póker Oasis among the games it covers.
- Resolución Conjunta 5/2018 · Ministerio de Salud y Desarrollo Social y Ministerio de HaciendaRecords that decree 95 of 2018 put Lotería Nacional S.E. into liquidation.
How it’s worked out
Rules, numbers, sources and hosts
Where the rules come from. Every rule on this page is from resolution 85/2010 of Lotería Nacional S.E., the national lottery, approving the rule book of “poker con descarte en la variante Oasis” for the rooms of Casino Buenos Aires S.A. That lottery has since been put into liquidation by decree 95 of 2018, as a 2018 joint resolution of two ministries records, and a Supreme Court ruling summarised in its December 2025 bulletin (Fallos 348:179) concerns the extension of a long-expired gaming contract in the city. This page therefore reads resolution 85/2010 as a document of the national lottery for Casino Buenos Aires, not as the rule book in force at a room today, and it does not say that any table plays póker Oasis now. The 2016 resolution on minimum and maximum bets is cited only for naming the game.
Numbers. Every voy-or-paso answer is counted exactly: your five cards and the bank’s one card showing against every way the bank’s four hidden cards can fall from the 46 you cannot see. Every bought card is counted the same way for each of the 46 cards that can come, with the bank’s four hidden cards from the 45 left; once the card is bought the bet stays in. Every share of hands is counted over all 2,598,960 five-card hands. Nothing here is typed in by hand.
What the count leaves out. The price of the whole game is not counted: it needs the right choice for every hand, every card the bank shows and every card you could buy, and that count is beyond this page. Each count is for one player at the table; the cards the other players hold are left out. The progressive jackpot pays shares of an amount we cannot know, so it is not counted. No document we could read prints how many hands an hour a table plays, so there is no price of an hour here.
Our readings. Where the rule book stops comparing two equal hands (a flush by its highest card, a pair by the pair and then the highest of the other cards), we count the hands as equal: a standoff. In ace-two-three-four-five the ace counts low, so we take the five as its highest card. When the bank does not qualify, the rule book pays the Ante 1 to 1 and says nothing more of the bet; we read it as returned. The fixed jackpot table gives amounts without a unit; we count them in units of one seguro, the stake of one credit. If a room counts them otherwise, the figures change.
Sources. Every rule on this page carries a button with the sentence it rests on, in the rule book’s own Spanish, the publisher who wrote that sentence and the date we read it.
Hosts. Leo and Maya are illustrated characters. Their backstories, a former dealer and a former floor supervisor, are written for the course: neither is a real person, and neither speaks for any casino. The rules and numbers on this page come from the sources it cites, not from their experience.
No promise. Every hand at this table has a price, and so does every seguro. Knowing when paso is cheaper and when a card pays for itself lowers what you pay; nothing on this page changes which cards are dealt, and nothing here says how an evening at the table would end.
Approved for Casino Buenos Aires
APRUEBASE el Reglamento de "POKER CON DESCARTE EN LA VARIANTE OASIS", aplicable a las Salas de Juego explotadas por el Agente Operador de esta Sociedad del Estado, Casino Buenos Aires S.A.Free translation: The Regulations for "POKER CON DESCARTE EN LA VARIANTE OASIS" are hereby APPROVED, applicable to the Gaming Rooms operated by the Operating Agent of this State Company, Casino Buenos Aires S.A.
The national lottery in liquidation
Que en los artículos 17 y 18 del decreto 95 del 1 de febrero de 2018 se declaró a Lotería Nacional Sociedad del Estado en estado de liquidación y se facultó al entonces Ministerio de Desarrollo Social a designar Interventor Liquidador tendiente a llevar a cabo todos los actos para su disolución y liquidación.Free translation: Whereas articles 17 and 18 of decree 95 of 1 February 2018 declared Lotería Nacional Sociedad del Estado to be in liquidation and empowered the then Ministry of Social Development to appoint a Liquidating Administrator to carry out all the acts needed for its dissolution and liquidation.
The ruling on the city contract
prorrogaba un contrato administrativo sobre juegos de azar que estaba largamente vencido e impedía con ello el ejercicio de las prerrogativas que el ordenamiento confiere a la sociedad estatal de loterías de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires (“Casinos”, Fallos 348:179).Free translation: extended an administrative contract on games of chance that had long since expired, thereby preventing the exercise of the prerogatives that the legal order confers on the state lottery company of the City of Buenos Aires ("Casinos", Fallos 348:179).
The card is bought after the bet
En caso que el jugador opte por apostar indicará verbalmente "voy" (o término similar), deberá realizar una apuesta "bet" por el doble exacto de la apuesta inicial "ante", colocando las fichas en el área de la mesa correspondiente.Free translation: If the player chooses to bet, the player shall say "voy" (or a similar term) aloud and must place a "bet" wager of exactly double the initial "ante" wager, placing the chips in the corresponding area of the table.
El croupier consultará si desea comprar una carta. El jugador podrá optar por comprar una y sólo una carta, o conservar sus 5 cartas iniciales.Free translation: The dealer will ask whether the player wishes to buy a card. The player may choose to buy one and only one card, or keep the initial 5 cards.
High cards can be paid
Esta combinación se dará cuando no se produzca ninguna de las combinaciones anteriores y las cartas del jugador sean de mayor valor que las de la banca.Free translation: This combination occurs when none of the previous combinations is made and the player's cards are of higher value than those of the bank.
Se entenderán que las cartas son mayores atendiendo en primer lugar a la carta de mayor valor, si fueron iguales, a la del siguiente valor y así sucesivamente en orden decreciente.Free translation: Cards shall be understood to be higher by looking first at the card of highest value; if these are equal, at the card of the next value, and so on in descending order.
A standoff keeps the bets
En cualquier caso, el jugador sólo ganará sus apuestas cuando su combinación sea de superior valor a la del croupier, perdiendo en caso contrario, y conservará su apuesta, pero sin ganar premio alguno, en el caso del empate.Free translation: In any case, the player wins the bets only when the player's combination is of higher value than the dealer's, and loses otherwise; in the case of a tie the player keeps the bet but wins no prize.
Equal hands
Cuando ambos obtengan Full, ganará aquél que tenga las tres cartas iguales de mayor valor.Free translation: When both get a Full House, the one with the higher-value three of a kind wins.
Cuando ambos obtengan Color, ganará aquél que tenga la carta de mayor valor.Free translation: When both get a Flush, the one with the card of highest value wins.
Cuando ambos obtengan Escalera, de cualquier tipo, ganará aquél que tenga la carta de mayor valor.Free translation: When both get a Straight, of any type, the one with the card of highest value wins.
Cuando ambos tengan doble Pareja, ganará aquel que la tenga formada por cartas de mayor valor; si coincidiesen en la pareja de mayor valor, se recurrirá a la otra pareja y, en última instancia, a la carta restante de mayor valor.Free translation: When both have Two Pair, the one whose pairs are made of cards of higher value wins; if they tie on the higher-value pair, the other pair is compared and, as a last resort, the remaining card of highest value.
Cuando ambos tengan Pareja, gana aquél que la tenga de mayor valor y, si coincidiesen, se atenderá a la carta de mayor valor de las restantes.Free translation: When both have a Pair, the one with the higher-value pair wins and, if they tie, the highest-value card among the remaining cards is considered.
Ninguno de los palos de la baraja (pica, corazón, trébol y diamante) tendrá un valor superior sobre otro, a los efectos de la determinación de las combinaciones de los juegos.Free translation: None of the suits of the deck (spades, hearts, clubs and diamonds) shall have a value higher than another for the purpose of determining the combinations in the games.
Buying a card gives up the jackpot
En caso que un jugador haya cambiado una carta, perderá todo derecho a participar por el jackpotFree translation: If a player has changed a card, the player loses all right to take part in the jackpot.
La combinación será válida sólo si es realizada con las 5 cartas recibidas inicialmente.Free translation: The combination is valid only if made with the 5 cards initially received.
Voy is twice the Ante
En caso que el jugador opte por apostar indicará verbalmente "voy" (o término similar), deberá realizar una apuesta "bet" por el doble exacto de la apuesta inicial "ante", colocando las fichas en el área de la mesa correspondiente.Free translation: If the player chooses to bet, the player shall say "voy" (or a similar term) aloud and must place a "bet" wager of exactly double the initial "ante" wager, placing the chips in the corresponding area of the table.
One card for the Ante
En forma optativa y al costo de la apuesta inicial "ante", cada jugador podrá cambiar una sola carta a su elección con la expectativa de mejorar la combinación recibida inicialmente.Free translation: Optionally, and at the cost of the initial "ante" wager, each player may change a single card of their choice in the hope of improving the combination initially received.
colocará la apuesta, que será equivalente al valor de la apuesta inicial "ante".Free translation: will place the bet, which shall be equivalent to the value of the initial "ante" wager.
El croupier cambiará la carta descartada por el jugador, por la primer carta que se encuentra en el lomo del mazo.Free translation: The dealer will replace the card discarded by the player with the first card on the top of the deck.
Limits inside a band
La Gerencia de Operaciones podrá fijar los límites mínimos y máximos de apuestas de acuerdo a la banda de fluctuación autorizada por Lotería Nacional S.E. para las variantes de póker.Free translation: The Operations Management may set the minimum and maximum betting limits according to the fluctuation band authorized by Lotería Nacional S.E. for the poker variants.
la modificación de la banda de fluctuación para los montos mínimos y máximos que actualmente rigen para los juegos de “RULETA”, “BLACK JACK”, “PÓKER”, “PUNTO Y BANCA”, “CRAPS”, “PAI GOW PÓKER”, “PÓKER OASIS”, “TRIPOKER”, “PÓKER DE CIRCULO”, y sus variantes, “CASINO MONTE”, “RUEDA DE LA FORTUNA” y “CHEMIN DE FER”.Free translation: the modification of the fluctuation band for the minimum and maximum amounts currently in force for the games of "RULETA", "BLACK JACK", "PÓKER", "PUNTO Y BANCA", "CRAPS", "PAI GOW PÓKER", "PÓKER OASIS", "TRIPOKER", "PÓKER DE CIRCULO", and their variants, "CASINO MONTE", "RUEDA DE LA FORTUNA" and "CHEMIN DE FER".
The game
El Póker con descarte es un juego de azar de contrapartida practicado con naipes en el que los participantes, mediante la utilización de cinco cartas y jugando contra la "Banca" tienen por objetivo lograr una combinación de superior valor al juego que presente la banca.Free translation: Draw Poker is a house-banked game of chance played with cards in which the participants, using five cards and playing against the "Bank", aim to make a combination of higher value than the hand presented by the bank.
The table and the deck
La mesa sobre la que se practicará el juego tendrá las mismas medidas y características que las utilizadas para el juego Black-Jack, su capacidad será de hasta 7 jugadores, para cada jugador habrá una casilla de apuesta.Free translation: The table on which the game is played shall have the same dimensions and characteristics as those used for Black-Jack; it shall seat up to 7 players, with one betting box for each player.
Se jugará con una baraja de cincuenta y dos naipes de tipo francés.Free translation: The game is played with a deck of fifty-two French-type cards.
No se admitirán apuestas de jugadores que se encuentren de pie en torno a la mesa de juego.Free translation: Bets from players standing around the gaming table shall not be accepted.
Las apuestas de los jugadores, exclusivamente estarán representadas por fichas de juego del casino.Free translation: Players' bets shall be represented exclusively by the casino's gaming chips.
The ace can be low
Sin embargo, el As podrá ser utilizado como carta menor para armar un juego de escalera: As, 2, 3, 4 y 5.Free translation: However, the Ace may be used as the lowest card to make a straight: Ace, 2, 3, 4 and 5.
No talking about your hand
Los jugadores no pueden interactuar o cambiar información de sus juegos con el resto de los participantes, la violación de esta regla es causal de nulidad de la mano.Free translation: Players may not interact with the other participants or exchange information about their hands; breaking this rule is grounds for voiding the hand.
The Ante and the bet
Cada jugador, para recibir cartas deberá realizar una apuesta inicial denominada "ante". Luego, en caso que decida apostar con las cartas recibidas, podrá realizar una segunda apuesta denominada "bet" por el doble del "ante" o desistir.Free translation: To receive cards, each player must place an initial wager called the "ante". Then, if the player decides to bet with the cards received, the player may place a second wager called the "bet" for double the "ante", or fold.
Antes de la distribución de las cartas, los jugadores deberán efectuar sus apuestas iniciales "ante", y en su caso, las apuestas del jackpot, dentro de los límites mínimos y máximos de cada mesa de juego.Free translation: Before the cards are dealt, players must place their initial "ante" wagers and, where applicable, the jackpot bets, within the minimum and maximum limits of each gaming table.
Five cards, one showing
distribuirá en sentido de las agujas del reloj, los 5 naipes del reverso a cada jugador y por último a la banca, con la salvedad de que la última carta que le corresponda se la distribuirá descubierta.Free translation: will deal, clockwise, the 5 cards face down to each player and lastly to the bank, except that the last card due to the bank will be dealt face up.
Paso loses the Ante
En caso que el jugador opte por retirarse indicará verbalmente "paso" (o término similar). El croupier retirará el importe de la apuesta inicial ingresándolas a la bancaFree translation: If the player chooses to withdraw, the player shall say "paso" (or a similar term) aloud. The dealer will remove the amount of the initial wager, adding it to the bank.
Voy is twice the Ante
En caso que el jugador opte por apostar indicará verbalmente "voy" (o término similar), deberá realizar una apuesta "bet" por el doble exacto de la apuesta inicial "ante", colocando las fichas en el área de la mesa correspondiente.Free translation: If the player chooses to bet, the player shall say "voy" (or a similar term) aloud and must place a "bet" wager of exactly double the initial "ante" wager, placing the chips in the corresponding area of the table.
One card for the Ante
En forma optativa y al costo de la apuesta inicial "ante", cada jugador podrá cambiar una sola carta a su elección con la expectativa de mejorar la combinación recibida inicialmente.Free translation: Optionally, and at the cost of the initial "ante" wager, each player may change a single card of their choice in the hope of improving the combination initially received.
colocará la apuesta, que será equivalente al valor de la apuesta inicial "ante".Free translation: will place the bet, which shall be equivalent to the value of the initial "ante" wager.
El croupier cambiará la carta descartada por el jugador, por la primer carta que se encuentra en el lomo del mazo.Free translation: The dealer will replace the card discarded by the player with the first card on the top of the deck.
The card is bought after the bet
En caso que el jugador opte por apostar indicará verbalmente "voy" (o término similar), deberá realizar una apuesta "bet" por el doble exacto de la apuesta inicial "ante", colocando las fichas en el área de la mesa correspondiente.Free translation: If the player chooses to bet, the player shall say "voy" (or a similar term) aloud and must place a "bet" wager of exactly double the initial "ante" wager, placing the chips in the corresponding area of the table.
El croupier consultará si desea comprar una carta. El jugador podrá optar por comprar una y sólo una carta, o conservar sus 5 cartas iniciales.Free translation: The dealer will ask whether the player wishes to buy a card. The player may choose to buy one and only one card, or keep the initial 5 cards.
The bank keeps its five
El croupier no podrá realizar descarte o compra de carta alguna, debiendo participar de la mano con las 5 cartas que inicialmente le corresponden a la banca.Free translation: The dealer may not discard or buy any card, and must take part in the hand with the 5 cards initially dealt to the bank.
La banca no tiene la posibilidad de comprar carta y participará con las 5 cartas originales.Free translation: The bank cannot buy a card and will play with its original 5 cards.
The bank needs ace and king
La banca calificará sólo si entre sus cartas existen, como mínimo, un As y un Rey o una combinación superior.Free translation: The bank qualifies only if its cards include, at a minimum, an Ace and a King or a higher combination.
When the bank does not qualify
Si la banca no califica, abonará a cada jugador aún activo en la mano, la suma equivalente a la apuesta inicial o "ante".Free translation: If the bank does not qualify, it will pay each player still active in the hand a sum equal to the initial wager or "ante".
En caso que la banca califique (con una combinación de juego As y Rey o superior), las apuestas "bet" de los jugadores con combinaciones mejores se pagarán de acuerdo a una tabla de pagos y los "ante", uno a uno. En caso que la banca no califique, sólo se pagarán las apuestas iniciales "ante" uno a uno, a los jugadores aún activos en el pase.Free translation: If the bank qualifies (with an Ace and King combination or higher), the "bet" wagers of players with better combinations will be paid according to a pay table, and the "ante" wagers at one to one. If the bank does not qualify, only the initial "ante" wagers will be paid, one to one, to the players still active in the round.
Settling against the bank
El croupier abonará a aquellos jugadores con combinación superior a la de la banca, el importe correspondiente según la tabla de pago respecto a la segunda apuesta "bet". Además, abonará 1 a 1 las apuestas iniciales "ante" a los jugadores con combinación superior a la banca.Free translation: The dealer will pay players with a combination higher than the bank's the amount given by the pay table for the second "bet" wager. In addition, the dealer will pay the initial "ante" wagers 1 to 1 to players with a combination higher than the bank's.
Los jugadores con combinaciones de cartas de valor inferior a las de la banca, perderán sus apuestas depositadas en las casillas correspondientes, siendo retiradas en su totalidad por el croupier.Free translation: Players with card combinations of lower value than the bank's will lose their wagers placed in the corresponding boxes, which will be removed in full by the dealer.
The pay table
Escalera Real de Color 100 veces la apuesta Escalera de Color 50 veces la apuesta Póker 20 veces la apuesta Full 7 veces la apuesta Color 5 veces la apuesta Escalera 4 veces la apuesta Trío 3 veces la apuesta Doble Pareja 2 veces la apuesta Pareja 1 vez la apuesta Cartas Mayores 1 vez la apuestaFree translation: Royal Straight Flush 100 times the bet Straight Flush 50 times the bet Four of a Kind 20 times the bet Full House 7 times the bet Flush 5 times the bet Straight 4 times the bet Three of a Kind 3 times the bet Two Pair 2 times the bet Pair 1 time the bet High Cards 1 time the bet
High cards can be paid
Esta combinación se dará cuando no se produzca ninguna de las combinaciones anteriores y las cartas del jugador sean de mayor valor que las de la banca.Free translation: This combination occurs when none of the previous combinations is made and the player's cards are of higher value than those of the bank.
Se entenderán que las cartas son mayores atendiendo en primer lugar a la carta de mayor valor, si fueron iguales, a la del siguiente valor y así sucesivamente en orden decreciente.Free translation: Cards shall be understood to be higher by looking first at the card of highest value; if these are equal, at the card of the next value, and so on in descending order.
A standoff keeps the bets
En cualquier caso, el jugador sólo ganará sus apuestas cuando su combinación sea de superior valor a la del croupier, perdiendo en caso contrario, y conservará su apuesta, pero sin ganar premio alguno, en el caso del empate.Free translation: In any case, the player wins the bets only when the player's combination is of higher value than the dealer's, and loses otherwise; in the case of a tie the player keeps the bet but wins no prize.
Equal hands
Cuando ambos obtengan Full, ganará aquél que tenga las tres cartas iguales de mayor valor.Free translation: When both get a Full House, the one with the higher-value three of a kind wins.
Cuando ambos obtengan Color, ganará aquél que tenga la carta de mayor valor.Free translation: When both get a Flush, the one with the card of highest value wins.
Cuando ambos obtengan Escalera, de cualquier tipo, ganará aquél que tenga la carta de mayor valor.Free translation: When both get a Straight, of any type, the one with the card of highest value wins.
Cuando ambos tengan doble Pareja, ganará aquel que la tenga formada por cartas de mayor valor; si coincidiesen en la pareja de mayor valor, se recurrirá a la otra pareja y, en última instancia, a la carta restante de mayor valor.Free translation: When both have Two Pair, the one whose pairs are made of cards of higher value wins; if they tie on the higher-value pair, the other pair is compared and, as a last resort, the remaining card of highest value.
Cuando ambos tengan Pareja, gana aquél que la tenga de mayor valor y, si coincidiesen, se atenderá a la carta de mayor valor de las restantes.Free translation: When both have a Pair, the one with the higher-value pair wins and, if they tie, the highest-value card among the remaining cards is considered.
Ninguno de los palos de la baraja (pica, corazón, trébol y diamante) tendrá un valor superior sobre otro, a los efectos de la determinación de las combinaciones de los juegos.Free translation: None of the suits of the deck (spades, hearts, clubs and diamonds) shall have a value higher than another for the purpose of determining the combinations in the games.
The jackpot bet
Existirá una apuesta adicional, voluntaria e independiente denominada jackpot.Free translation: There shall be an additional, voluntary and independent bet called the jackpot.
Además, cada jugador podrá realizar en forma optativa una apuesta adicional o "seguro" para intentar ganar un pozo especial o "jackpot" en función de la combinación obtenida con las cartas recibidas inicialmente.Free translation: In addition, each player may optionally place an additional bet or "seguro" to try to win a special pot or "jackpot" based on the combination obtained with the cards initially received.
The jackpot ignores the bank
Su objeto es conseguir un premio especial, dependiente de la jugada que obtenga el jugador, e independiente de las cartas que tenga el croupier.Free translation: Its purpose is to win a special prize, depending on the hand the player obtains and independent of the cards the dealer has.
La combinación será válida sólo si es realizada con las 5 cartas recibidas inicialmente.Free translation: The combination is valid only if made with the 5 cards initially received.
The jackpot needs the Ante
Para poder efectuar la apuesta del jackpot, es condición indispensable, haber efectuado la apuesta inicial de la mesa.Free translation: To be able to place the jackpot bet, it is an indispensable condition to have placed the initial bet of the table.
una cantidad estipulada de créditos (de 1 a 5 créditos, según la decisión del jugador)Free translation: a stipulated number of credits (from 1 to 5 credits, according to the player's decision)
siendo que en ningún caso el valor total de estos, podrá ser superior al mínimo de la mesa.Free translation: provided that in no case may their total value exceed the table minimum.
Buying a card gives up the jackpot
En caso que un jugador haya cambiado una carta, perderá todo derecho a participar por el jackpotFree translation: If a player has changed a card, the player loses all right to take part in the jackpot.
La combinación será válida sólo si es realizada con las 5 cartas recibidas inicialmente.Free translation: The combination is valid only if made with the 5 cards initially received.
The jackpot table is posted
La relación de los premios será expuesta en un lugar visible de la mesa.Free translation: The list of prizes shall be displayed in a visible place on the table.
The fixed jackpot table
En caso que el jackpot sea fijo, la tabla de premios será la siguiente: Combinación Se pagará Escalera Real de Color 10.000 Escalera de Color 5.000 Póker 500* Full 100* Color 50* Escalera Simple 25* *se multiplicará por cada seguro apostadoFree translation: If the jackpot is fixed, the prize table shall be as follows: Combination Will pay Royal Flush 10.000 Straight Flush 5.000 Four of a Kind 500* Full House 100* Flush 50* Straight 25* *will be multiplied for each seguro bet placed
Las combinaciones de Escalera Color y Escalera Real el monto a pagar será fijo.Free translation: For the Straight Flush and Royal Flush combinations, the amount to be paid shall be fixed.
The progressive jackpot
Si el jackpot es del tipo progresivo, sea manual o automático, la tabla de pago será la siguiente:Free translation: If the jackpot is of the progressive type, whether manual or automatic, the pay table shall be as follows:
El valor del jackpot comenzará en una cantidad que en ningún, caso podrá ser inferior a 5.000 veces la apuesta mínima del mismoFree translation: The value of the jackpot shall start at an amount that in no case may be less than 5.000 times its minimum bet