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08-31-2005, 12:38 PM
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Playing Hold\'em (or Omaha) with two decks
top flush would be AAKKQ
what would the hand rankings be? how well do you think this would play? i think it would make for interesting games of PLO with 12+ people 
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#2
08-31-2005, 02:15 PM
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Re: Playing Hold\'em (or Omaha) with two decks
You might as well make them up, unless you're doing the math to figure out what's more likely. Technically, one of the very best hands (due to rarity) is 75432 unsuited- you making THAT your better hand?
Stick with the existing hand rankings, with adjustments for flushes and such as you noted, if you are determined to play the silly game.
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#4
09-02-2005, 02:07 AM
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Re: Playing Hold\'em (or Omaha) with two decks
[ QUOTE ]
Technically, one of the very best hands (due to rarity) is 75432 unsuited- you making THAT your better hand? [/ QUOTE ] Nah. That loses to the just-as-rare 76432. It's been a good 10 years since I've played with two decks, but we just did things the same way as Frank's table shows and never had any problems. I sometimes miss those days. Those games were carefree, reckless, and fun. Sometimes we had as many as 16 wild cards(!). I remember four-way splits with five aces. I usually made a small profit in those games, but I had very little understanding of poker theory beyond what simple math and logic gave me. If only I knew then what I know now... I'd probably have killed the game within two months and had no one to play poker with. [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]
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#5
09-02-2005, 11:21 AM
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Re: Playing Hold\'em (or Omaha) with two decks
I guess I should have intuited that, since you're just doubling the available cards- it shouldn't change the relative probability of one hand versus another.
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#6
09-03-2005, 09:20 AM
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Re: Playing Hold\'em (or Omaha) with two decks
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I guess I should have intuited that, since you're just doubling the available cards- it shouldn't change the relative probability of one hand versus another. [/ QUOTE ] Actually, it wasn't a bad intution. Doubling the number of cards does shift the probabilities, just not enough to changing the rankings. But tripling the number of cards starts to shift the rankings, with a pair becoming more common than nothing (and five of a kind becoming more common than a straight flush). Quadrupling the cards messes things up a bit more, making straights better than a full house.
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