Video poker is a popular casino game that combines the elements of slot machines and five-card draw poker. Players are dealt five cards, and they can choose to hold or discard any number of cards. The cards that are discarded are replaced with new cards from the deck. The goal of video poker is to […]
Flush Poker
A flush in poker is a hand that contains five cards of the same suit, such as all hearts or all diamonds.
Here are some key things to know about flushes:
– For cards to make a flush, they don’t need to be consecutive ranks like a straight. Any 5 cards of the same suit makes a flush.
– Flushes are ranked by comparing the highest card in each flush first. If two flushes contain the same high card, then the second-highest card is compared, and so on.
– For example, an A-J-10-8-5 of hearts beats a Q-J-10-9-7 of diamonds because the ace is higher than the queen.
– Flushes are considered very strong hands, rated higher than a straight or three of a kind but lower than a full house or four of a kind.
– The chances of being dealt a flush in an initial poker hand is about 1 in 33. This makes it fairly uncommon compared to hands like pairs and straights.
– To make a flush on the board in games like Texas Hold’em requires catching cards of the same suit on later betting rounds.