The rules as they are dealt in Britain.

Rulesets

The documents.

One ruleset per game or variant, each with a document number, its rule assumptions and the date it was last verified.

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  UK Three Card Poker Rules: Ante and Play, the Queen High Qualifier and a 2.32% Pair Plus Paytable

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  Three Card Poker as dealt in UK casinos and on UKGC licensed sites is two games sharing one hand: an Ante and Play contest against the dealer, carrying a 3.37% house edge per Ante under correct play, and a separate Pair Plus wager that pays on the player's hand alone, at 2.32% on the common 1, 4, 6, 30, 40 paytable. The two bets are settled independently and the rules below treat them that wa…

  House EdgePair PlusThree Card PokerUK Poker Room RulesVariant Comparisons

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  UK Baccarat Rules: Punto Banco's Third Card Tableau, the 5% Banker Commission and a 14.36% Tie

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  Baccarat in British casinos is played as Punto Banco: the house banks every hand, the drawing rules are fixed by a tableau, and players choose only where to stake. Three bets are offered. On the standard eight deck shoe the Banker bet carries a house edge of 1.06% after a 5% commission, the Player bet 1.24%, and the Tie, paid at 8:1, 14.36%. Rule assumptions for all figures Eight decks, shuffled to…

  House EdgePunto BancoThird Card RuleUK Baccarat RulesVariant Comparisons

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  UK Blackjack Rules: No Hole Card, Doubling on 9 to 11, and What Each Costs in House Edge

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  Blackjack at a British table differs from the American game on three points that carry a measurable cost: the dealer takes no hole card until the players have acted, doubling is commonly restricted to hard totals of 9, 10 and 11, and a dealer blackjack collects doubled and split stakes as well as the original bet. Together these add roughly 0.2% to the house edge against an American style six dec…

  Doubling RulesHouse EdgeNo Hole CardUK Blackjack RulesVariant Comparisons

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  UK Roulette Rules: La Partage, En Prison, and When the House Edge on Even-Money Bets Actually Halves

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  A single-zero roulette wheel carries a uniform 2.70% house edge on every bet type, straight-up numbers included, because every payout is priced against the same 37 pockets. That uniformity breaks on exactly one category of bet, the even-money wagers, at any table running La Partage or En Prison. On those tables, Red/Black, Odd/Even and High/Low drop to a 1.35% house edge, while every other bet on…

  En PrisonHouse EdgeLa PartageUK Roulette Rules

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  Pontoon: The UK Card Game Often Confused With Blackjack, and How Its Rules Actually Differ

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  Pontoon is a British card game frequently mislabelled as "just UK blackjack," and the mislabelling hides real structural differences: a Pontoon hand's terminology, its banker advantage, and its specific five-card trick rule all diverge from blackjack in ways that change how the game should actually be played. Card Values and the Basic Objective Pontoon uses a standard deck, and card v…

  Blackjack ComparisonPontoonUK Card GamesVariant Comparisons

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