Teen Patti may be a somewhat new card game for the international market, but it surely is not new to one country in particular. We’re talking about India, where it originated, and where it has been one of the most popular activities for leisure and professional tournaments.
For the longest time, however, despite its insane popularity, Teen Patti was omitted by the live software developers. This applies even to those studios that specifically target the Asian markets.
Super Spade Games was among the first to notice and fill in the empty niche. It was the first one to provide an adaptation of another popular live game, Andar Bahar, to the live dealer action. And then, in 2019, it introduced its version of Teen Patti during ICE Totally Gaming in London.
Regardless of whether you are a newbie to the Teen Patti table keen about the rules, or an experienced player willing to check out where you can play the game online, this publication will be useful in providing answers to these and other questions.
What’s Unique About the Super Spade Gaming’s Release?
The game streams from SSG’s studio in Eastern Europe and is available in English, Hindi, and Spanish. The voice is pre-recorded, so the live dealer remains silent, which may be a bit of a bummer for those of you joining the online live lobbies for an immersive experience.
While the original Teen Patti invites between 3 to 6 players to participate, at SSG’s live table, there’s only room for 3. The bets start at 10 credits and reach 200. These bets are the Ante, standard, and the Pair Plus Bonus Bet.
The Ante bet is how the action starts for SSG’s Teen Patti. From here on, the cards are dealt, and the bet can be raised in either Blind or Seen modes, maneuvering between Chaal or standard bets, as well as considering the Pair Plus Bonus Bet.
The dealer will stay in the game only if he or she will have two Queens or a higher combination on hands. If not, the round continues between those of the players, that remain in the game, and continue to raise the pot.
The list of combinations includes 2-of-a-kind, 3-of-a-kind, 3-of-a-kind AAA, Flush, Straight Flush, and a High Card.
The game streams in full HD. It’ll have statistics for the 15 previous rounds.
How to Play Teen Patti?
In many ways, the game is similar to poker, and especially, a 3 Card Poker variation. The goal of the game is to land the hand with the highest combination of cards while raising the boot and bidding against 3 to 6 players at the table.
The game plays with a deck of 52 cards, Jokers excluded. The first task is to initiate the first bet, to which each player has to contribute. This is the boot amount that is then placed in the middle of the table.
Three cards are dealt, and each player can either call (stay in the game but without raising a stake) or raise for the next move.
Calling or raising is possible in two ways. The first one is not to look in the dealt cards, which is a Blind option. The second one is seeing the cards, which is a Seen option. If the player goes Blind, the bet should be either equal or double the previous bet. If the player goes Seen, the Chaal mode means betting 2x or 4x the stake of the previous bettor.
At this point, each of the players can also request for the player betting before him/her, to Side Show, or reveal the cards, which the one being asked can respectfully decline.
As far as the winning combinations go, they are the following:
- 3-of-a-kind in Teen Patti is called a Trail or a Set. The most desirable Trail is that of the triple AAA.
- Straight Flush is also known as the Pure Sequence in Teen Patti. It is a combination of 3 consecutive cards of the matching suit.
- The Sequence is the alteration, where the cards should be consecutive, but may not be of the same suite.
- The Color will match the combination by the same suit, without any requirements as per the sequence.
- A Pair is two cards of the same rank.
- A High Card is Teen Patti’s peculiar twist where you need to score a hand of three cards not matching by a suit or a sequence.