WHO WILL WIN???

[GazaBabe]

If there is house on the table, I have a A & a 2 in my hand, and the other player has a 2 & 5, the HOUSE is: three 10's and two 8....QUESTION....WHO WILL WIN??

[GazaBabe]

If there is house on the table, I have a A & a 2 in my hand, and the other player has a 2 & 5, the HOUSE is: three 10's and two 8....QUESTION....WHO WILL WIN??

And can a PAIR win over a STRAIGHT????? ON the Table is: A, 2, 3, 4, 5....and one player has a 7 & 3....the next has a 10 & Q.... who will WIN???????????

[HalfSugar]

Read this and it will all become clear - poker-faq-please-read-before-starting-a-new-thread-t3459.html

[ak2009]

If there is house on the table, I have a A & a 2 in my hand, and the other player has a 2 & 5, the HOUSE is: three 10's and two 8....QUESTION....WHO WILL WIN??

It's a full house on the table i.e 10,10,10,8,8

A,2 will win.

[golddog]

Well, if there's a house on the table, you're likely playing Monopoly. The guy with the pair of Chance cards wins.

If, by "on the table", you mean the board is 10s full of 8s, it's a split, unless one of the competitors can make a better five-card hand.

[BeerWench13]

Damn, I had a pair of Community Chest cards. So close.

It sounds silly, but I have a question that came up in a home game with some newer people and need to know how you would handle this. I guess it's more of an etiquette question?

Home game, not at my home, split pot with an odd chip in the pot. The extra chip should go to the player closest to the dealer so when I split the pot as dealer, that's what I did. One of the players says that he is supposed to get the extra chip because his kicker, which didn't play in the hand, was higher. Two others at the table agreed with him and Mr. Wenchie and another player who learned to play from us agreed with me (none of whom were in the hand). It's a home game for low stakes ($50) what would you do?

[HalfSugar]

Defer to the guy who runs the game and then make sure that rule becomes standard.

The correct ruling is nearest left of the dealer of course.

[BeerWench13]

I deferred to the host and he said they played highest kicker wins, so that's what we did, but the one guy seemed to be bent out of shape over my giving "his" chip to the other guy.

[HalfSugar]

I deferred to the host and he said they played highest kicker wins, so that's what we did

Get better friends In a game where only five cards can ever play, using the sixth for ANYTHING is retarded. You can quote me when you say that to him the next time he tries that shit.

[golddog]

I deferred to the host and he said they played highest kicker wins, so that's what we did, but the one guy seemed to be bent out of shape over my giving "his" chip to the other guy.

Ummm...the kicker is defined as part of the hand played, which doesn't include sixth cards. Point out to them that your approach (which is, of course, correct) is:

a) How it's handled in every card room on the planet and
b) done that way because the little bit extra is given to the person who's taken the most risk -- i.e., the person in the worst position.

Then get better friends.

[BeerWench13]

These guys aren't my friends, they're Mr. Wenchie's co-worker and his neighbors, but it's a local game and they're terrible players so I can usually make some dosh there.

I have had numerous issues with some of their "house rules", but being ever the polite guest I have kept my mouth shut about most of them (except for the chick who kept splashing the pot-grrrr). Trying to explain the actual rules to this group is impossible when their reply is "That's how they do it in Vegas". I just chug a beer, shake my head and chuckle because I want to them to invite me back so I can have more of their money.

[HalfSugar]

I have a similar situation with my work colleagues who are just horrible, horrible poker players. The structure of our rare games is as follows:

25/25
25/50
50/100
100/200
200/400
300/600
400/800
...........

I stop there because we've never gone about 400/800 due to running 10 minute blinds with a 2,000 chip starting stack at a table of 7-8 players.

They like to play two games in about 4hrs so the structure is bonkers and is exasperated by the inability of some people to shuffle and deal.

I've almost got them to stop splashing the pot and string betting but they come up with something new each time we play.

The reason I play with them is because they are just so bad and provided you don't catch a frozen wave of cards, getting HU is a piece of cake. Most of them never, EVER raise pre-flop with any holding and the one or two that do will only do it with AA or KK. This leads to some of the funkiest hands you have ever seen because you just never know what they might showdown but provided you don't try and get at all creative if they appear willing to call post-flop or call light on the end, you almost never come up short.

The two best things about them are that unless they have something, they will offer NO resistance pre or post flop so 80-90% of my winning pots are bluffs, and that they have no clue of their stack size vs the blinds. In last game, with someone on the 600 BB with 300 behind, I raised 88 and she folded. It's glorious.