The Palm Beach Kennel Club is now offering three-card poker.

Here's how it works: Players ante $5 and receive three cards face down. Starting with the dealer button, players must either bet $1 or fold. The $5 jackpot rake makes players eligible for six different jackpots.

The player who remains in for all bets and has the highest ranking hand, based on standard poker rankings, receives all the $1 bets that were made.

The jackpot amounts are:

$10 for a pair, $20 for a flush, $35 for a straight, $155 for three of a kind, $255 for a straight flush and $595 for a mini-royal flush (suited A-K-Q).

Instead of getting the cash at the table, though, you get tokens that you cash elsewhere. A house fee of 50 cents per hand will be assessed prior to the deal.

I'll make some calls as to whether this game is a winner or not...

Meanwhile, also at Palm Beach Kennel:

Dec. 12-23: Poker Room 12 Days of Christmas: High hand each hour has a chance to win great prizes including big screen TVs, laptop computers, Blue Ray DVD Players, IPods, $200 American Express Gift Cards and dining certificates and more.

Dec. 26-31: Poker Room Ho, Ho, Hold’em Events: Six days of tournaments, with big tournaments Dec. 26 and 27.