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08-27-2005, 08:06 PM
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? about a hand in Texas hold\'em involving a flush
The other night I was playing in a small poker game in which a debate occurred involving a flush hand. The game was Texas Hold'em and the situation was as follows:
{ [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]=Hearts, C=Clubs, S=Spades, D=Diamonds) Community Cards: Ace[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] 8 [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] 4 (S) 2 [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] 6 (C) Player one: K [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] 7 [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] Player two: J [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] 9 [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] Both players have an Ace high flush. My question is: Does player one win the pot because he has the next highest heart with the K [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], or is it a split pot because they both have an Ace High Flush? I have always thought that the best five cards win the hand. It seems that when I play online that the player with the next highest card in the flush wins the hand. However no one could confirm my answer to this situation. If anyone knows the answer to this situation please let me know. Is there a texas hold'em or poker rulebook that would have some type of "official" answer to this type of situation? Any type of documented answer would be very helpful. Thanks for any input that you guys can offer. 
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#3
08-28-2005, 09:43 AM
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Re: ? about a hand in Texas hold\'em involving a flush
after a quick google search, i found this:
poker hand rankings refer to this, or something similar when a question arises about who wins the pot. it gets awefully frustrating when you are playing with people who don't know how to rank a hand, and they insist on arguing about things as simple as which flush wins. cheers!
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#4
08-28-2005, 10:33 AM
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Re: ? about a hand in Texas hold\'em involving a flush
I was amazed one night in a home no-limit game when it came out that one of the regulars didn't realize that the trips portion of a full house determined the ranking against another boat. A situation came up where he thought that 666AA beat 99966, simply because the first boat contained aces.
Luckily, it wasn't too huge an argument, because he had already folded a weak hand (low pair-A kicker against a big bet from the guy who had flopped a set of 9s), and simply commented that he would have hit the winning hand runner-runner. There was no fight over a pot. The shocking thing about it was, this guy wasn't a rookie. He was one of the better players in the game, a consistent winner, who I know played casino poker fairly regularly as well.
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08-28-2005, 02:24 PM
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Re: ? about a hand in Texas hold\'em involving a flush
Thanks for the input guys!
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08-28-2005, 03:19 PM
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Re: ? about a hand in Texas hold\'em involving a flush
I'm shocked by both the flush and the full houses that the other player mentioned being contested at all.
Both are very, very basic things that anyone who has played longer than a couple of weeks should know...
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#7
08-28-2005, 04:24 PM
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Re: ? about a hand in Texas hold\'em involving a flush
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Both are very, very basic things that anyone who has played longer than a couple of weeks should know... [/ QUOTE ] You'd be suprised. Generalizations are never true... [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]
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#8
08-28-2005, 04:42 PM
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Re: ? about a hand in Texas hold\'em involving a flush
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He was one of the better players in the game, a consistent winner, who I know played casino poker fairly regularly as well. [/ QUOTE ] he MIGHT be a consistent winner in your run-of-the-mill fishy home-game. But he is most certainly NOT a long-term winner at regular B&M casino poker. It would be almost impossible to misunderstand the rules THIS badly but somehow still have enough knowledge to actually consistently beat the game.
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#9
08-31-2005, 03:02 AM
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Re: ? about a hand in Texas hold\'em involving a flush
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he MIGHT be a consistent winner in your run-of-the-mill fishy home-game. But he is most certainly NOT a long-term winner at regular B&M casino poker. [/ QUOTE ] Oh, absolutely concur...I never played with him in a casino, but I too would be surprised that he's a winner there. Being a "better player" in THIS game isn't saying much. There were only maybe 3 regular players who I'd think were good enough to play break-even or better in a casino game. (needless to say, I tore this game to shreds) My only point was that this guy had enough exposure to the game, in both home and casino environment, that I was absolutely dumbfounded that he didn't know what rule determines what hand wins when it's boat vs boat.
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