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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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In Poker you use the best 5 cards, so in this case no one wins...it's split. In fact, the only cards that could win here are an A, K, TJ, or pocket Q's. Knowing this, even if he had JJ or even QJ, it would still be split.
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First: as amigal said, Alice wins. I just want to say something about the naming convention of the hands.
Alice and Bob do not have a "flush to 10"; that would imply that the cards are consecutive and that would be a straight flush. Alice's and Bob's hand - out of context - would be called a "Ten-high flush". As amigal said, if the highest card of a flush ...
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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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It's a split.
In short, the best 5 card hand that you can make wins. In this case, you're both playing the board.
There is a similar question here, What is the“Top Five Cards” rule and how does it apply to splitting pots?, explaining the scenario in more detail.
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Alice wins because she has higher flush.
the rule is that if both player has the same highest card, the second higher card is checked.
if the second highest card is the same for both players, the third highest card is checked and so on.
in your case, the 4 highest cards are the same for both players.
Alice has the highest fifth card so she wins.
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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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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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There's no way such a price makes any sense. With that money, you can get 20 or 30 other books written by world famous and world champion players; with the help of those books you will definitely improve your game if you're serious about doing it.
No matter how good it is, the price is just unjustified. I don't know if I remember correctly, but I think not ...
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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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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 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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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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Yes, as I understand. Player 2 can either call the amount of the big blind or if they make a raise, they will have to raise to the smallest allowable amount. In this case that would be the twice the size of the big blind (4000).
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For a serious poker book, this isn't the most expensive I've seen. Shootaa (Reid Young) has a book out for around $5k and when it came out it honestly may have been worth the price. The fact is that these tips will allow you to improve your game so much that you'll make more than the price of book in a relatively short period of time. Granted, this is ...
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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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As of October 2017, the two biggest places for US players to play are currently on sites that are part of either the Pai Wang Luo Network (such as Ignition Casino and Bovada Poker) or the Winning Poker Network (such as America's Cardroom, Black Chip Poker and True Poker). Both sets of sites get a reasonable amount of traffic. PWL Network does not offer much ...
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You do not ever have to count or tell you opponent your stack size. You will have to move your hands/arms out of the way so that your opponent can see your stack size, though.
It's the dealer's job to tell your opponent how many chips you have if your opponent asks.
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I don't think you will find any "official" rules about this situation because in most "official" poker tournaments/cash games the players do not deal themselves anyway.
It would be a bad idea to skip his deal because, as you already pointed out, this would disturb the seating positions. Just have someone deal for him - in the right order of course (...
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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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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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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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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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