Poker Hands Ranking Suits
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Introduction
If remaining players have exactly the same hand at showdown, only in different suits, the pot is split. The value of poker hands is determined by how rare or common it is to be dealt them, with the most common hands valued lower than the rarer hands. The complete list of poker hands is as follows, in increasing order of scarcity. Poker articles Poker Hand Ranking. The poker deck consists of 52 cards that are ordered by poker card rank in the following order: A, K, Q, J, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2. The same cards of different suits have the same poker card rank. For example - the king of spades and the king of hearts both have the same value. A poker hand consists of.
A Poker hand ranking with any five consecutive cards of different suits. Aces can count as either a high or a low card. Our example shows a five-high straight, which is the lowest possible straight. A French deck of cards is split into four suits: Clubs, Diamonds, Hearts, and Spades. Typically, no one suit is ranked above another. For example, in poker, a Royal Flush with hearts is worth the. Poker hands from highest to lowest 1. Royal flush A, K, Q, J, 10, all the same suit.
I ♥ Suits Poker offers the same base game as High Card Flush. The Flush Rush and Super Flush side bets are the same as the Flush and Straight Flush side bets respectively in High Card Flush. A Cover All Bonus and Progressive side bets are added. At this time, I have incomplete information on those second two side bets.
I ♥ Suits Poker is distributed by Shuffle Master (a.k.a. Scientific Games).
Rules
Following are the rules of the base game, which are identical to High Card Flush.
- High Card Flush is played with a standard 52-card deck of playing cards.
- To begin play, each player makes the mandatory Ante wager, and if desired, any side bets.
- The player and dealer each receive seven cards face down.
- Hands are evaluated in the following fashion:
- The first ranking criteria is the greatest number of cards in any one suit. This is referred to as the 'maximum flush.' For instance, any hand with a maximum four-card flush beats any hand with a maximum three-card flush, but loses to any hand with a maximum five-card flush.
- The second ranking criteria is the standard poker-rankings for flushes; that is, a hand with a maximum four-card flush of K-Q-J-T would beat a hand with a maximum four-card flush of K-Q-J-9, but lose to a hand with a maximum four-card flush of A-4-3-2.
- Each player then decides upon one of the following options:
- Fold, and surrender the Ante.
- Raise, placing a second bet equal to at least the Ante. The maximum amount of the Raise wager depends on the rank of the player's hand:
- With a two-, three- or four-card flush, the maximum Raise wager is equal to the Ante wager.
- With a five-card flush, the maximum Raise wager is double the Ante wager.
- With a six- or seven-card flush, the maximum Raise wager is triple the Ante wager.
- Once all players have decided, the dealer turns over his seven cards and evaluates his hand in a similar fashion as described above.
- If the dealer does not have at least a three-card flush, nine-high, all remaining players have their Antes paid, and the Raise bets are pushed.
- If the dealer has at least a three-card flush, nine-high, his hand is compared to each other player:
- All players with a higher-ranking hand win, and have their Ante and Raise wagers paid at even money.
- All players with a lower-ranking hand lose, and have their Ante and Raise wagers collected.
- Players with the exact same ranking hand as the dealer push both their Ante and Raise wagers.
- The Flush Rush side bet pays according to the number of cards in the longest suit, as follows:
- Seven-card flush pays 300 to 1
- Six-card flush pays 100 to 1
- Five-card flush pays 10 to 1
- Four-card flush pays 1 to 1
- The Super Flush Rush side bet pays according to the number of cards in the longest straight flush, as follows:
- Seven-card straight flush pays 8,000 to 1
- Six-card straight flush pays 1,000 to 1
- Five-card straight flush pays 100 to 1
- Four-card straight flush pays 60 to 1
- Four-card straight flush pays 7 to 1
If these rules were not clear, please click the image of the rack card below for a larger image of it.
Strategy
For the player strategy, please see my page on High Card Flush.
Analysis
For my analysis of the base game, please see my page on High Card Flush.
Following is my analysis of the Flush Rush side bet. The lower right cell shows a house edge of 7.53%.
Flush Rush
Cards Pays Probability Return 7 300 6,864 0.000051 0.015392 6 75 267,696 0.002001 0.150071 5 5 3,814,668 0.028514 0.142568 4 2 26,137,540 0.195370 0.390741 3 or less -1 103,557,792 0.774064 -0.774064 Total 133,784,560 1.000000 -0.075292 Following is my analysis of the Super Flush Rush side bet. The lower right cell shows a house edge of 13.11%.
Super Flush Side Wager
Cards Pays Combinations Probability Return 7 8000 32 0.000000 0.001914 6 1000 1,568 0.000012 0.011720 5 100 39,924 0.000298 0.029842 4 60 676,148 0.005054 0.303240 3 7 8,642,916 0.064603 0.452223 2 or less -1 124,423,972 0.930032 -0.930032 Total 133,784,560 1.000000 -0.131093 Progressive
Some tables offer a progressive side bet with the following pay table:
- 7-card straight flush — Major Jackpot
- 6-card ace high straight flush — Major Jackpot
- 6-card straight flush (7-K kigh) — Minor Jackpot
- 5-card straight flush — 200 for 1
- 4-card straight flush — 50 for 1
- 3-card straight flush — 3 for 1
The following table shows my analysis.
Progressive Side Bet
Cards Pays Combinations Probability Return 7-card straight flush Major 32 0.00000024 ? 6-card ace high straight flush Major 96 0.00000072 ? 6-card straight flush (7-K kigh) Minor 1,496 0.00001118 ? 5-card straight flush 200 39,960 0.00029869 0.059738 4-card straight flush 50 676,196 0.00505437 0.252718 3-card straight flush 3 8,642,932 0.06460336 0.193810 All other 0 124,423,848 0.93003145 0.000000 Total 133,784,560 1.00000000 0.506266 + ? Here is how much each $10,000 in each meter contributes to the return on a $1 bet.
- Major — 0.24%
- Minor — 0.72%
Written by:Michael Shackleford
6+ Hold’em is a popular ‘short deck’ poker format that plays much like Texas Hold’em, but with a few exciting differences:
- All cards lower than a six are removed from the deck
- Everyone posts an ante and only the button posts a blind – known as the ‘button blind’
- A flush beats a full-house
Available in cash games, exclusively at PokerStars, 6+ Hold’em is your chance to play an action-packed variant loved by high-stakes players around the world.
Let’s face it – fives, fours, threes, and twos got in the way a little bit in regular Holdem. They were consistent contributors to dry boring flops, blank turns, and no one ever making a hand. 6+ Hold’em (known conventionally as ‘Short Deck’) has been taking the poker world by storm and giving jaded long-term players a fresh breath of life as they gamble it up in this wild format of the game played with a 36-card deck. Six Plus is exactly as it sounds. There is no card in the deck below a six. As you can imagine, this leads to a lot less discoordination and makes it far easier to make a strong hand. When I first saw this game, I recall my first thought being:
‘Wait a second…it’s almost impossible not to make a straight!’
While this is a huge exaggeration. I think it captures the instinctive reaction of most players. Regular Holdem players must adapt quickly in 6+ Hold’em, migrating from a world where good hands are relatively rare, to one where they come along much more frequently. We shall get into the strategic effects of this shift in a future article. Today’s job is to get our heads around what hand rankings and rules have changed and why these changes were necessary to make 6+ Hold’em the harmoniously enjoyable game that it has become.
Blind & Antes
6+ Hold’em uses a ‘button blind’ structure: every player posts an ante, and the player seated at the button position is the only one who posts a blind – meaning there is only one blind per hand, rather than traditional small/big blind format.
The action starts with the player seated to the left of the button. Each hand then plays out according to Texas Hold’em rules, with pre-flop, flop, turn and river betting rounds.
If you’ve played Texas Hold’em games before, the rules of 6+ Hold’em are easy to follow.
Hand Rankings
The table below illustrates how the hand rankings have changed in 6+ Hold’em to accommodate the shorter deck:
The Top Hands
There is no change at the very top of the hand ranking chart. While you will make a straight flush and a royal flush more often in 6+ Hold’em than in Holdem, it is still very hard to make these hands relative to the other hands. Four of a Kind is a hand you will see much more often than in Holdem since there are now 9 ranks of card instead of thirteen but is still rare compared with other 6+ Hold’em holdings.
Flushes vs. Boats
The main change to the hierarchy is that Flushes now beat Full Houses (boats). This makes sense and to see why think of it this way.
In regular Holdem, there are four 9s in the deck, but there are also four of twelve other ranks of card. One in thirteen cards is a nine in regular Holdem. In 6+ Hold’em, there are only nine ranks of card and so one in nine cards is a 9. If you are dealt 99, any card in the deck goes from having a 2/50 = 4% chance of being a 9 to having a 2/34 = 6% chance. In 6+ Hold’em, it is 50% easier to find those set making cards. In fact, in 6+ Hold’em you will fail to flop a set (32/34 x 31/33 x 30/32) = 83% of the time. This means that we flop a set 17% of the time! After we have done the hard part, and hit one of our two cards to make a set, it is much easier for the board to then pair since sixteen of the cards that would prevent it from pairing in regular holdem (the deuces through fives) do not exist. Those cards really did spoil all the fun.
As for flushes, they are sadly no easier to make and come along less often than a full house does. While there are less ranks of cards in the 6+ Hold’em deck, there are still the same number of suits. Had we also removed all of the diamonds from the deck, we would have made flushes more likely. As it is, every card still has a one in four chance of being a spade (13/52 = 9/36).
One thing that has changed about flushes in short deck is that when a you hold a card that blocks an opponent from making a flush, you will block a greater portion of his possible flush cards. The board is J♣8♣6♣10♠Q♥ and we hold A♥K♣. In regular Holdem, we would remove one of ten remaining clubs, leaving Villain with nine clubs to instead of ten to form a flush. In other words, there are 10% less clubs in the deck for him to make a flush with when we hold this blocker. In 6+ Hold’em, there were only six possible clubs and we reduce this number to five due to our K♣ blocker. We have now made it 17% harder for Villain to hold a flush by removing a sixth of the clubs in the deck. Blockers matter more in 6+ Hold’em in just about every way due to the smaller deck, not just when it comes to blocking flushes.
Straights vs. Trips
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While it is easier to flop three of a kind in 6+ Hold’em than it is to flop a straight, it is easier to make a straight by the river. There are only 9 ranks of cards remaining in the deck so if the board doesn’t double-pair, there will be straights everywhere. A board like K♠J♠10♣8♥6♥ is scary at the best of times in regular Holdem. In 6+ Hold’em, there are no deuces through fives to dilute the number of straights in each player’s range. The result is that it is incredibly easy to hold a straight in 6+ Hold’em. Pre-flop you will be dealt [97, Q9, AQ] 48/630 times. In Regular Holdem you will be dealt these hands 48/1326 times. While there are some versions of short deck Holdem where three of a kind beats a straight, this is not the case in 6+ Hold’em and so connected cards are very powerful. This format of the game encourages action by providing an incentive to play connected cards, which come along very frequently.
We should also note that there is a rather unconventional looking straight available in 6+ Hold’em. A6789 is a low straight in 6+ Hold’em just as A2345 is a low straight in regular Holdem. Look out for this one, it can really tak you by surprise if you are not careful.
Conclusion
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6+ Hold’em is a different game. Some of the rules are very different, but as we have seen, these adaptations have been necessary to ensure that the game is fair and balanced. Now that we are acquainted with the different hand rankings and hand formation rules, it is time to get stuck into some strategy. In my next article on 6+ Hold’em, I will be discussing pre-flop hand selection.
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