Bola Tangkas on 3Win8: How the Seven-Card Poker Game Works

Bola Tangkas is a card game on 3Win8 that borrows the hand rankings of poker but plays more like a machine game. You get seven cards, and the aim is to end up with the strongest possible poker hand from them.

How a Bola Tangkas hand works

Regular five-card poker gives you five cards and that is your hand. Bola Tangkas deals seven. Two of them are dropped, and the best five-card combination from the remaining cards is the one that counts.

Having seven cards to choose from makes a strong hand more achievable than in straight five-card poker, but the ranking of hands stays the same.

Poker hands, from strongest to weakest

If you are new to poker, these are the standard rankings the game is built on:

• Royal flush: A, K, Q, J, 10 of one suit
• Straight flush: five cards in sequence, same suit
• Four of a kind
• Full house: three of a kind plus a pair
• Flush: five cards of one suit
• Straight: five cards in sequence, mixed suits
• Three of a kind
• Two pair, then one pair

Check the game's payout screen on 3Win8 to see which of these hands pay and how much.

A console game, not a table game

Bola Tangkas is not played across a table against other people. It runs on a computer console roughly the size of a slot machine, and you play the machine directly. That makes it quick and private, a little like video poker.

Playing it sensibly

Start with the smallest stake the game allows while you learn which hands pay. Set a budget before you begin and stop when it is gone. The game has a house edge, like everything else on the platform.

To try it, play Bola Tangkas on 3Win8, or browse more 3Win8 reviews.