Three Card Poker, also known as Tri Card Poker, Poker 3 or Trey Poker is quickly rising to the top of players’ favorite table games. This online variant of the game combines the excitement of poker and the fast speed of traditional gambling games. The game is simple to play: players get dealt three cards and must decide whether to bet on the hand being better than the dealer's. The object of the game is to make the best poker hand possible with only three cards. How To Play 3 Card Poker. To start, the player places an ante wager and/or a pair plus wager, betting that they will have a hand of at least a pair or better. Three cards are then dealt face down to each player and to the dealer. The goal is to move all cards to the four foundations on the upper right. Turning and Moving. Click the stock (on the upper left) to turn over cards onto the waste pile. Drag cards to move them between the waste pile, the seven tableau columns (at the bottom), and the four foundations. You can also double-click cards instead of dragging them to a foundation. You dispose of cards by building melds which are made up of sets, three or four of a kind and the same rank; or runs, three or more cards in sequence and same suit. An example set is the 7 of diamonds, 7 of hearts and 7 of spades.