Play Criss Cross Poker
Your hand in Criss-Cross poker is taken from 7 cards: the 4 hole cards dealt to you, plus 3 of board cards. You may use any combination of hole and board cards to make your hand (4 hole & 1 board; 3 hole & 2 board or 2 hole & 3 board). It is highly desirable to have at least 3 and preferably 4 well coordinated hole cards to play.
STARTING HAND SELECTION
The very best high starting hand you could hope for is 4 of a kind. You have what is almost assuredly the best hand right from the start. The board can neither improve or counterfeit your quads, but could (very rarely) give another player a bigger hand. But, that is such a far off possibility that it should not concern you. Unfortunately, being dealt quads is about a 20,000 to 1 long shot. Another rare starting hand is 4 to a straight flush, including 1 gapper. With this type of hand you will either draw a fabulous hand (straight flush), a decent hand (regular flush), a vulnerable straight or nothing (unless it consists of low cards). Excellent starting hands that occur more frequently are trips and two pair. These hands are just one board card away from becoming a huge hand. Four cards to a flush is also a decent starting hand, while four to a straight is typically not worth playing unless it can be played for low. With the exception of starting with trips, having just 3 cards to these hands will require the help of both cards from one of the board pairs and that is much more difficult. But, if they include multiple possibilities like a pair or 3 low cards they may be worth playing.
Excellent starting hands for low are obvious: 4 cards of 6 or lower. Such a hand will also include straight possibilities, vulnerable though it is. Having 3 to a flush (including the ace) gives an additional possibility.
Three low cards, all 4 or under, is a decent start, but will take help from 2 of 3 of the board cards. Unless you have other possibilities for high, having just A2 is not a reasonable low hand as it requires 3 nearly perfect board cards.
Play Criss Cross Poker Online
Criss Cross Poker is a poker game played with a standard 52 card deck using two 5-card hands in one game. The player plays against a pay table – no dealer hand and no qualifying required. To begin, each player must place two Ante bets of equal value, with one corresponding to the “Across” hand and the other corresponding to the “Down. Poker is one of the most popular card games in the world. No casino- is it online or offline- is ever complete without the game of poker. While earlier Criss Cross poker was only restricted to bars and casinos, the advent of the internet has revolutionized the game totally. Now you can play casinos anytime, anywhere, courtesy of the internet. Criss Cross Poker Introduction Photo taken at 2014 Global Gaming Expo. Criss Cross Poker is poker variation by In Bet Gaming. In 2014, I started to hear reports of the game in several casinos in the eastern United States. The thrust of the game is the player bets on two hands, in part using five community cards placed in a cross pattern.