Poker Strategies
After receiving pocket cards, you are immediately faced with a choice: play your cards and either raise or call the blinds, or fold.
Practice Matters
In short, at the showdown the lowest-ranking five-card hand wins
In short, at the showdown the lowest-ranking five-card hand wins the pot. If all players pair or stay until the showdown, one pair of aces wins the pot, since they are lower than a pair of deuces or any other pair. If some players fail to hold one pair or better, the hand having the lowest-ranked high card wins the pot. If two or more players have the same-ranked high card, the second-lowest-ranked card wins the pot. If the second-highest cards in each hand are equal in rank, the third-highest card determines the loser. And so it goes with the fourth and fifth cards. If all five cards are the same denomination, the pot is split equally. Furthermore, anything can open the pot and a player may draw up to five cards.
As noted earlier, there are 2,598,960 possible five-card
As noted earlier, there are 2,598,960 possible five-card combinations to be made from a 52-card deck with no wild cards. Among these 2,598,960 combinations, 1,296,420 consist of one pair or better and 1,302,540 hands are made up of five cards of different denominations that do not together make a straight, flush, straight flush or royal flush. For the purpose of this discussion, the 1,302,540 hands that do not make one pair or better will be considered as low hands in this Low-ball variation. It is true that a Lowball game may be won on occasion by a pair or better, but such hands will not here be classified as low hands.