Teen Patti is based on poker and its rules are quite similar to the game. Some online casinos even refer to Teen Patti as “Three-Card Poker” due to the similarities between the two games.

The most common variant of the game is played with a 52-card deck without the jokers. All the players on the table are given three cards from the deck and an ante (also known as boot) is collected from every player before the betting starts. The ante or the boot is half the amount of the standard bet amount which is also known as chaal.

The ante amount collected from the players is added to the pot. The betting rounds start after that and the pot keeps growing until someone wins the hand by having the highest-ranking hand at showdown or being the last remaining player in the hand. The pot is then collected by the winner of that hand.

Blind Player / Seen Player - During the betting rounds of the game, you can be a “blind player” or a “seen player”. A blind player is one that doesn’t look at his or her cards during the hand and a seen player is one that looks at their cards. The betting rules are slightly different for blind players and seen players. 

In order to understand the game better, let’s go through how a hand is played in Teen Patti: 

Suppose players A, B, and C are playing a hand. The dealer collects the ante of 100 chips (the stake / chaal is 200 chips in this case) from the three players and deals them three cards each. 

All the players have the option of either becoming a seen player by looking at their cards or being a blind player by refusing to look at their cards. In this example, let’s say A is a “blind player” and B and C are “seen players”. 

The betting starts with A who has to put in a bet amount that is equal to the chaal / stake to start the betting. Now the betting goes to B who has the option of either betting an amount equal to the previous bet or double but not less than the previous bet. Let’s say B puts an amount that is double the previous bet and the betting goes to C. 

Here is where it gets interesting - since B is a “seen player”, the minimum bet that C has to make is half the bet that B made and not the entire bet. 

In Teen Patti, when you’re betting after a “blind player”, the minimum bet for you is equal to the bet made by the “blind player” but if you’re playing after a “seen player”, the minimum bet you’re required to make is only half the bet amount made by the “seen player”. So in this case, C has to make a bet that is at least half the bet made by B.

The betting rounds will continue until either two of the three players fold (also known as pack in Teen Patti) or if only two players remain in the hand, and one of them wants a “show” instead of making a bet. 

In that case, both the players will have to show their hands and the better hand wins. In the case only one player remains in the hand, there is no need for that player to show his or her cards and they win the pot automatically. 

It is a good idea to try out a few hands using casino bonuses to get a hang of the game before playing it with real money. This way you have the chance to familiarize yourself with the rules of the game so you can win big when you play with real money.