Breakfast of Champions: Rules Of The Game... Teen Patti

Everybody gets three cards and they throw in the minimum stake at the start of the game. Then all players bet to figure who has the best hand. Or you can pay nothing and fold.

Everybody gets three cards and they throw in the minimum stake at the start of the game. Then all players bet to figure who has the best hand. Or you can pay nothing and fold.



The betting continues till all except one player have folded (he wins the pot). Or when someone asks for a ‘show’ and that’s when cards are compared. The winner is decided on the possible combinations from the strongest to the weakest

Cards

Three of a kind

Pure sequence (sequence of the same suit)

Sequence (Three cards in a row)

Colour (Three of the same suit)

High card (Ace is highest) Pair

From HT Brunch, October 28

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