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Who wins if a player mis-identifies their hand?
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 ...
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Is there a rule variation where only a single high card (not 2nd,3rd etc.) is used to resolve 2 flush hands?
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 ...
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Why did I lose with a flush in Omaha?
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 ...
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Player allowed to play for main pot after folding during side pot action?
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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Who wins if two players have a straight?
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 ...
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Hide high value chips
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 ...
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Is "talking to influence action" illegal at WSOP?
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. ...
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Talking during a hand
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 ...
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How is players raising each other indefinitely prevented?
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 ...
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Hands when playing Omaha
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 ...
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Can I showdown early
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 ...
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Who wins if two players have a straight?
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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Questionable Tournament Rule With Two Players Left
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 ...
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Rules when dealer flips river early
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 ...
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Full house vs Full house
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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Acting out of turn.
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 ...
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The loser has a 2 pair over a one pair
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&...
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How to determine the winning hands in poker?
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 ...
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What are the rules of a misdeal in casinos?
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 ...
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Ruling on a non-standard check
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 ...
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Ruling on a non-standard check
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 ...
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I lost and i dont get why, can any one help?
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 ...
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Do you HAVE to show your cards in an all-in heads up situation?
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 ...
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Question of declaration in Texas Hold em
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 ...
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Kicker cards - and splitting pots
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 ...
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Omaha: Interesting dealer mistake at showdown
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 ...
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Poker Main Pot is 100 and split in 3
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 ...
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Card flip on deal. Misdeal or next card?
This doesn't apply universally, but anywhere that uses the TDA rules would use this:
34: Misdeals
A: Misdeals include but are not necessarily limited to: 1) 2 or more boxed cards on the initial ...
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What happens if there is royal flush on board
The best five cards play, so the remaining players at showdown split the pot.
In the case of a full house, if somebody has a better pair in their hand or make of 4 of a kind the best 5 card hand wins....
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Who wins the Side pot if everyone interested in side pot folds
When B folds, the side pot belongs to C, immediately, regardless of what C might later do. If you suspect that C is cheating by protecting A, you are entitled to ask the floorman to expose C's hand ...
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