Teen Patti online casino South Africa: Springbok's rules

"Teen patti" is Hindi for "three cards", and the casino version keeps the idea simple. You are not dealt a hand of your own. Two hands are dealt, Player A and Player B, and you predict which one will be stronger. Springbok's game uses a single 52-card deck, shuffled before every game.

1. Pick a side. Put your main bet on Player A or Player B. Once one is chosen, the other main-bet area is switched off for that round, so you cannot back both hands.
2. Add side bets if you want them. Pair Plus A, Pair Plus B and the 3+3 Bonus only open once a main bet is down.
3. The deal. Each player receives three cards from the freshly shuffled deck.
4. Compare the hands. The stronger three-card hand wins the main bet. If the hands are equal, it is a push and the main stake comes back to you.
5. Settle the side bets. Each one is paid or lost on its own terms, whatever happened to the main bet.

So a side bet can pay on a round where your main bet loses, and the other way round.

The main bet and Pair Plus use a three-card ranking, and the order is not the one you may know from five-card poker. Springbok's help page lists the hands like this:

An Ace can play high (Ace-King-Queen) or low (Ace-2-3) in a straight. Two changes from five-card poker matter most: a straight beats a flush, and three of a kind beats a straight.

Home games often treat a trail as the best hand there is; at Springbok the royal flush and every straight flush outrank it. For how two hands of the same type are split, see the game's help page under Sources.

Both main bets pay 0.95:1: a win returns your stake plus a little less than the same amount again, much like the commission-paying Banker bet in Springbok's baccarat. That shortfall below even money is the house's margin on a contest that is otherwise level, since both hands pay the same and are judged by the same ranking.

A tie is a push: your main stake comes back, and the round costs you nothing on that bet.

The bigger numbers live in the side bets. This is the full list from the game's help page, which matches what is printed on the table:

Pair Plus A and Pair Plus B

Pair Plus looks at one player's three cards only. If they make a pair or better, the bet pays, from 1:1 for a pair up to 100:1 for a royal flush. Whether that hand wins the main contest makes no difference. The pays follow the three-card ladder, which is why a straight earns more than a flush on this bet.

3+3 Bonus

The 3+3 Bonus pools both hands. The game takes all six cards on the table, finds the best five-card poker hand among them and pays when it is three of a kind or better: 7:1 at the bottom of the scale, 1000:1 at the top. Because five cards are used, this bet switches to five-card order, with four of a kind and the full house on the list and a flush paying above a straight.

Large multiples belong to rare hands: a pay of 1000:1 reflects how seldom that hand turns up. Springbok publishes no house edge for either side bet, so this guide cannot say which costs less over time.

The article's minimum matches its smallest chip, which may explain the gap; neither source says so, and this guide does not pick a side. Read the sign when the table loads, since that is what the game shows you. Either way, the ceiling is R400.

For comparison, the signs at Andar Bahar and 32 Cards read up to R500.00 and R500.00. The full list of table limits sits in the table index on the home page.

Springbok publishes no house edge or RTP for Teen Patti, and neither the help page nor the table states one; Andar Bahar, 32 Cards and European Roulette share that gap. The rules do show where the house earns its margin on the main bet: winners are paid at 0.95:1 rather than even money.

How much that adds up to over many rounds also depends on how often the hands tie, and this guide does not work out edges Springbok has not published. To compare tables by a single number, use the Springbok house-edge guide.

Teen Patti is not on the list in Springbok's Terms and Conditions of games whose bets count toward bonus wagering. Bets here do nothing to clear a bonus, and placing them while one is still being wagered can cost you the bonus and its winnings.

So come in with a deposit that carries no coupon. If a bonus is still active, settle it first; while wagering runs, each bet is capped at R100. Open Teen Patti at Springbok when you are ready to play for rand.

Springbok keeps Teen Patti in the lobby's Table Games tab, beside the other card tables, and every chip is in rand. It is a software table rather than a studio stream: Springbok's lobby had no live dealer games at all when checked on 9 October 2026. The game deals and reshuffles on its own, so there is no dealer to wait for between rounds.

• Practice is available. Springbok says logged-out players get a one-off R1,000 practice (fun-money) balance that does not renewOperator claim: Springbok article, 9 Oct 2026. Use it to learn the ranking above until you can read a hand at a glance. For more on fun-money play, see free table games at Springbok.
• The rules travel with the game. An information button in the game's menu opens its help page, the same page the payouts on this guide come from.

• Counting a tie as a loss. A tied main bet is returned, so there is nothing to "win back" with a bigger next stake.
• Reading a streak into A or B. The deck is shuffled before every game, so a run of wins for one player says nothing about the next deal.
• Loading up side bets to chase the top line. The 1000:1 pay exists because the hand is rare. Keep side bets small next to the main bet, or leave them out.
• Bringing a live bonus to the table. It cannot be cleared here and it can be voided.

Settle on a stake and a stop time before the first deal; the stake plan for table players on our safer gambling page sets one out step by step.