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Do wild cards speak?
Hi,
I've been looking around online and haven't seen this question directly addressed. In the showdown in a game with wild cards does the player have to nominate what his wild card(s) represent, or does the table just formulate the best hand? In the case at hand, a player made a flush with a natural K, and a wild card, and at the showdown called out "Flush, King high", when of course he should have nominated the wild card as an Ace. His opponent had an Ace high flush with no King, so it was the difference between winning & losing - what's the right decision? Peter |
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Re: Do wild cards speak?
Typically, if the hand is tabled, the cards speak and can be read by anyone. There are home game rules where you have to call your own hand so it could be ruled either way depending on the home game rules.
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Re: Do wild cards speak?
Barring any other rules being specified, Id say the highest possible hand that can be made by the cards tabled is what the player should get credited for.
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Re: Do wild cards speak?
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Barring any other rules being specified, Id say the highest possible hand that can be made by the cards tabled is what the player should get credited for. [/ QUOTE ] That's what I say, but again House Rules should override anything. IF there is no House Rule pertaining to Cards Speaking, then the cards speak, simple as that. Why the hell are you playing bingo anyway? |
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Re: Do wild cards speak?
Slightly off topic, but in most home games is a double ace high flush possible? For example does:
Ah-wild-9h-3h-2h Beat As-Ks-9s-3s-2s, or is that a tie? Paul |
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Re: Do wild cards speak?
interesting question. surely 4 Aces and a wild is 5 aces, so 1 ace must be of a duplicate suit. so logically you should be able to have an Ad Ad Kd xd xd flush.
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No, not really
By convention, wild cards substiture for cards you DO not have but that DO normally exist. The doubling feature is ignored for 5-of-a-kind (call it the X of suit eagle, like those old 5-suit decks that companies tried to introduce years ago0 and hands where both players have the "same" card/suit.
Special house rules may override this convention. |
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Re: Do wild cards speak?
Is the general rule cards speak, or declarations are binding?
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Unless you have tiebreaker rules
based on highest suit, or natural beats wild card hands, this is a tie
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Re: Do wild cards speak?
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Is the general rule cards speak, or declarations are binding? [/ QUOTE ] Yeah well if declarations are binding, then it wouldn't come up - the player who has a natural King & a wild card but calls "King high flush" would lose. It is only a question if the general rule is cards speak - and the question I guess is as implied in the subject, cards speak, but do wild cards have a voice? The clear consensus is that they do, and that the best hand that can be made wins (subject of course to house rules). As for that cheeky question posed by Stew, what can I say, a weekly dealer's choice game is what I have to subject myself to in order to get everyone to agree to the monthly NL Hold'em single table tournament that we host. "N-23!" Maryfield |
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