[OT] Poker question

[LabattBlue]

In any game where you use your best 5 cards, a flush always beats a straight. In any 3 card poker game(i.e. 3 card monte), a straight beats a flush.

 

My question is, in a game where it is your best 3 out of either 4 or 3 out of 5(combination of cards in your hand and on the table), does a straight still beat a flush?

[wjag]

Not if you are playing five cards total

[deluca67]

In any game where you use your best 5 cards, a flush always beats a straight. In any 3 card poker game(i.e. 3 card monte), a straight beats a flush.

 

My question is, in a game where it is your best 3 out of either 4 or 3 out of 5(combination of cards in your hand and on the table), does a straight still beat a flush?

I've played poker for 30 years. Starting with the family 10 dollar weekly game with the aunts and uncles when I was 12 as a fill in. In 3 Card Monty a 3 card flush still beats a 3 card straight. At least it did with my old school West Side aunts and uncles.

[eball]

It's pretty simple, and all based on math. Playing three cards, it is easier to get a flush than a straight. Playing five cards, it's easier to get a straight than a flush.

 

If you have your choice of five cards to make a three-card hand, it serves to reason that a flush is still the easier hand to achieve, and therefore a straight should beat it.

[deluca67]

It's pretty simple, and all based on math. Playing three cards, it is easier to get a flush than a straight. Playing five cards, it's easier to get a straight than a flush.

 

If you have your choice of five cards to make a three-card hand, it serves to reason that a flush is still the easier hand to achieve, and therefore a straight should beat it.

My Grandmother would have kicked the crap out you ;)