(a) Wagers at Three
Card Prime shall be made by placing value chips, plaques or other
Board-approved table game wagering instruments on the appropriate areas of the
table layout. Verbal wagers accompanied by cash may not be accepted.
(b) Only players who are seated at a Three
Card Prime table may wager at the game. Once a player has placed a wager and
received cards, that player shall remain seated until the completion of the
round of play. If a player leaves the table during a round of play, any wagers
made by the player may be considered abandoned and may be treated as losing
wagers.
(c) All wagers, except the
Play Wager, shall be placed prior to the dealer announcing "no more bets" in
accordance with the dealing procedures in §
679a.8, §
679a.9 or §
679a.10 (relating to procedures
for dealing the cards from a manual dealing shoe; procedures for dealing the
cards from the hand; and procedures for dealing the cards from an automated
dealing shoe). Except as provided in §
679a.11(b)
(relating to procedures for completion of each round of play), a wager may not
be made, increased or withdrawn after the dealer has announced "no more
bets."
(d) The following wagers may
be placed in the game of Three Card Prime:
(1) A player may compete solely against the
dealer's Three Card Prime hand by placing an Ante Wager then a Play Wager, in
an amount equal to the player's Ante Wager, in accordance with §
679a.11(b).
(2) If specified in its Rules Submission
under §
601a.2 (relating to table games
Rules Submissions), a certificate holder may offer to each player at a Three
Card Prime table the option to make an additional Prime Wager which shall win
if all three of player's cards are of the same color.
(3) If specified in its Rules Submission
under §
601a.2, a certificate holder may
offer to each player at a Three Card Prime table the option to make an
additional Pair Bonus Wager, which shall win if the player's hand contains a
pair or better as provided in §
679a.6(b)
(relating to Three Card Prime rankings).
(4) If specified in its Rules Submission
under §
601a.2, a certificate holder may
offer to each player at a Three Card Prime table the option to make an
additional All-Six Bonus Wager, which shall win if the player's three cards and
the dealer's three cards form a three-of-a-kind or better as provided in §
679a.6(d).
(e) A certificate holder shall specify in its
Rules Submission under §
601a.2 the number of adjacent
boxes on which a player may place a wager in one round of play.
