I have a couple questions regarding poker rules and etiquette. Does 5 of a kind beat royal flush?
Posted on October 17, 2008
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I have a couple questions regarding poker rules and etiquette.
Q1) Does 5 of a kind beat royal flush? I’m pretty sure that it does, but I was playing in a game the other night and the others there said that it beats a lower straight flush but not a royal flush. Luckily my 5 9’s were only up against a lower straight flush.
Q2) I was playing a high low game where the rules stated that you needed a flush or better to win high. Someone went high ahead of me, and I had a hand that was good enough to go high or low, but not high and low. I had an 8 high flush, so I figured that the guy going high probably had me beat. I went low, and the guy says “Woops, I only have a straight.” So the guy who won low took the whole pot. I would have won high if I had gone that way, and I would have gone that way if this guy wouldn’t have gone high in error. Should I have had any recourse? Should the guy have been penalized somehow? What do you do in your games?
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in strait poker a royal strait flush . bets 4 A’s 5 would be with a joker. Jokers good only with A’s,straits and flushes.
In truth, “royal flush” is nothing more than a nickname for a particular hand, that of course being a “straight flush to the ace,” so five of a kind should beat it. If the rules of your game state otherwise, however, so be it.
Q1. although I think poker games where you can get 5 of a kind are ridiculous, I actually read the technical rules on that one, and no, a royal flush is still the best hand. I believe it beats a straight flush though.
Q2. Again, another rule variation which I think is utterly ridiculous, but a friend of mine abides by. I think your best recourse is to play hi-lo properly, where you simply show your hand and the best hi and best lo win. I don’t play those silly “flush or better” or “call the hi/lo” games, that’s what I do.
answer to # 1 a royal flush is the BEST hand in poker period!!!!! with or without wild cards.#2you have no recourse for someone elses stupidity!!! you play your hand and you ONLY are resposible for your decisions.AT my house we play house rules and discuss such an occurance beforehand and set the rules/penalties etc. ahead of time so there is no missunderstanding before play begins.
5 of a kind, with wild cards of course, beats a royal. That is the door that you open when playing with jokers or wild cards. Straight poker has no 5 of a kind.
Your secund question sounds like a ‘luck of the draw’ misfortune. You win some and you lose more.
5 of a kind is not possible in a regular poker game. The rankings of poker hands depends on how likely the hand is to come into play. Since is more likely to get a royal flush than 5 of a kind, 5 of a kind is a higher ranker hand.
The person who declared high and did not win was penalized in that he did not win the hand.
There is no official rule for 5 of a kind vs royal since regular games do not include wild cards. Since you made the game, you decide.
At video poker machines with wild cards a ‘natural’ royal (a royal with no wild cards) pays out higher than 5 of a kind, but a 5 of a kind pays out better than a royal with a wild card (i.e. A,K,Q,J, Joker). If I were you, that’s how I’d do it.