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Casinos in the US generally have the "cards speak" rule. That is, when a hand is properly tabled--exposed to everyone at showdown--it is the responsibility of all players, the dealer, floormen, and anyone else present to see that the pot is awarded to the best hand shown, regardless of what the players might say.
Some players object to this rule: they ...
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There isn't a special ranking rule for flushes. The winning hand is always the best five cards out of the seven available. The two hole cards plus the five community cards.
My guess is that player 1 just didn't want to lose. So he made up this rule to get what he wants. Again, this is just an educated guess.
I've been playing poker for years and I've never ...
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I think this question is a little different than the usual question that needs the standard Best Five Cards answer. In this question, the nuance is whether player 2 gets any special consideration for having his 10 counterfeited. Does player 2 get some sort of bonus for being able to play both of his cards to make the best five-card hand, while player 1 could ...
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In Omaha Hold'em you have to use exactly two of the four cards from your hand and three on the board (since a poker hand is exactly five cards).
This means you can only have the flush when you have two cards of the same suit in your hand and there are at least three cards of that suit on the board.
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No, B folded. They are no longer in the hand. Cards are tabled, main pot of 75$ goes to A or C, depending on who has the best cards. If a side pot exists it goes to C.
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Must be visible at all times, you can get a penalty for hiding them. You'll get a warning normally first but you will get a penalty if you keep hiding them in most places. In general I'll ask a player once to move their large chips out in front of their stack, after that I'll call floor if they don't.
You as a player have the entitlement to know what size ...
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That was the wrong way to do it.
It should have been a split pot. They both had the same best five card hand.
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Yes talking to influence action is against the rules and people push it. When he announced the pot size it went over the line. By announcing the pot size he was coaching. That is a rule violation. The dealer said cannot influence action.
Yes talking to influence action is done but it needs to be more subtle than that.
From there his excessive chatter was ...
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Poker is typically played "table-stakes" which means that a player cannot bet more money/chips than is setting on the table in front of him. The only thing that would prevent infinite reraises between two determined players is one (or both) running out of money to bet.
In heads-up play, as soon as one player goes all-in and is called (or calls all-in), the ...
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I am an online player and can guarantee you that every major online poker room considers A2345 a straight. The reason it is so hard to find a citation is because it is considered common knowledge (so if there exists a poker room where A2345 is not a straight, the designers clearly just didn't know the rules).
Here is a list of reputable organizations' ...
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I am angered enough at the other two answers here to move my comments to an actual attempt at an answer. I think they really miss the point. In short:
This behavior from the big blind is illegal collusion and deserving of a penalty.
The intent of the BB here is obviously to signal to the SB that he is no threat in the hand. That's a big deal. This is a ...
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Yes. You must use exactly two cards from your hand to make your best 5-card poker hand, so if there were three 9's on the board your best hand would use the 9 and the highest ranked other card from your hand. For example, if you held KQ97 and the board were 999AJ, your best hand would use the 9 and K, for a best hand of 9999K. Of course, in this case the ...
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I am going to ignore the bet amounts and your stack size first and give you a general answer, you have no fold equity anyway.
Well in live, yes you can, there is nothing stopping you from physically turning your hand over and if you're all-in your hand cannot be made dead.
However it is extremely bad etiquette. I have been a poker dealer for 3 years, ...
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This is false. The hand will play out as usual with the flop, turn, and river.
I'm not sure where your friend heard this or why he believed it. There are plenty of televised heads-up tournament matches available with a quick youtube search where you can see how heads-up hands get played.
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Depends on the rules in use. Two common sets are Roberts rules and Tournament Directors Association (TDA) rules.
From Roberts Rules:
IRREGULARITIES:
If the dealer prematurely deals any cards before the betting is complete, those cards will not play, even if a player who has not
acted decides to fold.
Also Section 5 (HOLD 'EM):
If the ...
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Each full house is first ranked by the rank of its triplet, and then by the rank of its pair. So TTT99 is ranked higher than 999AA.
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Most of the time in poker, the WSOP rules are held as canon, so keeping that in mind, this is what the 2016 WSOP rulebook has to say:
Non-Standard Folds: Any time before the end of the last betting round of a hand, folding in turn when there’s been no bet to you (ex: facing a check or first to act post-flop) or folding out of turn are both binding ...
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Both players have two pairs, as there is a pair of Kings on the board. Inclinations was ahead until the river paired the board.
Rubina's best five card hand is: K♥K♠6⋄6♣T⋄
Which beats Inclinations best five card hand: K♥K♠6♥6♣5⋄
The two pairs are equal in rank, so the fifth card acts ...
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Each player in a basic game of poker is given five cards to make their hand. There are variants to the game where players receive more than five cards and players have community cards. However it is the best five cards of a player's hand that make their hand.
If the best five cards you have are not better than another player's best five cards you lose the ...
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So I'm going to just copy and paste the TDA rules here as they are one of the most common set of rules enforced around the world, and often if a place is not using the official TDA rules, they're using a variant of it or something that was built off of it. In any case you should check with your local casino what they're doing as different places can have ...
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The only relevant question here is what the other players thought and how they reacted. If they thought it was a check, and reacted in any way that you might have been able to see before you bet, then ruling it a check is reasonable to prevent an angle shot. But if the bet was reasonably simultaneous with your ambiguous declaration, and the other players saw ...
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If you did one of the following things, you committed to checking the turn:
Clearly say the word "check"
Deliberately pat the table with your fingers extended twice in succession
Deliberately knock the table twice with your knuckles
Time was called on you and you failed to make an action in the appropriate amount of time and there was no action to you (...
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There's not really an "official rules of poker" out there. Asking for a citation for this is like asking for a citation to the rule that states a flush beats a straight. However, the WSOP.com site does have a page on hand ranking :
http://www.wsop.com/how-to-play-poker/hand-ranking.asp
And in it, the WSOP official site states "In Poker, the Ace is the ...
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While I have no experience with any on-line sites, I've never seen a casino poker game where A2345 wasn't a straight. On the other hand, KA234 is never a straight.
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The king on the river gave your opponent two pair, kings and nines. It also changed your best hand, giving you two pair, kings and nines. Your opponent had a queen kicker, which plays on this board and is the sole difference between your hand and your opponent's. In hold-em, the best hand is determined by the best 5-card combination of cards for each player ...
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The responsibility to show first lies on the person who put in the last bet or raise on the last betting round. In your example, this will be the person who shoved all-in. If the second player sees those cards and his hand is not a winner, he can safely muck and the pot will be awarded to the shover. If the second player has the best hand and wants to win ...
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This kind of thing is irritating at best and angle shooting at worst.
I suspect whether this is considered a binding action will depend on lots of context, such as the frequency he's been doing this and the intonation of his voice and the level of confusion of the other players in the hand after one of these incidents. Not all "I want to call" statements ...
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In the example you give both players have 1 pair. Poker is the best 5 card hand. Your best hand would be 2,2,A,Q,6 your opponents best hand would be 2,2,A,Q,7.
Therefore his 7 would "out kick" your 6.
However, if the board was 2,2,3,3,Q
You both would share the best hand 2,2,3,3,A and the pot would therefore be split
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It seems quite plain to me that the sequence of events it crucial to resolving this situation. The fact that villains hands is mucked, and that a live hand is in play means Hero should be awarded the pot. It seems irrelevant to me that the Hero's four hole cards aren't all exposed.
It also seems disingenuous that the game runner should award himself half ...
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Common casino rules are these: Pots are split as evenly as possible down to the smallest betting unit of the game. In a typical small game, that's usually a $1 chip, but in some games it might be a $5 chip or even bigger. The "odd" chip(s) left over after everyone gets the maximum equal amount are distributed differently depending on the game being played.
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