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Damien
Joined: 30 Jun 2008
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Location: Donk Betting the Flop
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 Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2008 8:33 am Post subject: Bowling Poker |
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| Don't know if anybody has ever played this. In the bowling league I am in, everybody on the team or 2 teams puts a dollar or two in the pot before each game. We use 2 decks, including jokers (which are wild) = 108 cards. Strike = 2 cards, spare = 1 card, picking up a spare = 1 card. So there is no skill other than your bowling skill. The best 5 carded hand wins the pot at the end of the game. The other night, someone had a straight flush and the other guy had 5 aces. The 5 aces won. I'm wondering if this is statistically right? Is it harder to get the 5 aces than it is to get the straight flush in this game? |
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nsidestrate
Suited's Love Monkey
Joined: 26 May 2004
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| Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2008 9:13 am Post subject: |
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| In wild card poker, 5 of a kind beats a straight flush. |
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Cript
Cheesehead
Joined: 13 Feb 2004
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Location: Milwaukee, WI
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| Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2008 9:15 am Post subject: |
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| Bad ass game...I love it! |
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nsidestrate
Suited's Love Monkey
Joined: 26 May 2004
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| Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2008 9:21 am Post subject: Re: Bowling Poker |
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| Damien wrote: | | I'm wondering if this is statistically right? Is it harder to get the 5 aces than it is to get the straight flush in this game? |
It is, by the way, harder to get five of a kind. It does distort other hands. However, as you add wild cards, it becomes easier to get a full house than a flush. Nobody ever says a flush beats a full house in wild card games, but mathematically speaking it should.
The tiwst in your game that makes me a bit unsure is that you are potentially getting to make your hand from a lot more cards. That changes the odds too, but I don't know the overall effect. |
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Damien
Joined: 30 Jun 2008
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Location: Donk Betting the Flop
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| Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2008 3:41 pm Post subject: |
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| I wouldn't want to tell some of the guys in this league that my flush should statistically beat their FH. Some of them have a real hard time totaling up the score card.... |
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Henry
Joined: 14 Jul 2008
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Location: Charleston, SC
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| Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 5:17 am Post subject: |
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I have never heard of bowling poker but it sound like a lot of fun.  |
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enteratlantis
Joined: 16 Jun 2008
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| Henry wrote: | | I have never heard of bowling poker but it sound like a lot of fun. |
Me too !!! never heard of bowling poker?? |
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Muttly
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| Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 10:52 pm Post subject: |
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Most of the leagues I've played in jokers only count for aces, straights and flushes which I would think would now make the full house harder to get overall.
Also they typically make you discard any cards in excess of five after drawing although I have played in some that let you keep all your cards. |
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nsidestrate
Suited's Love Monkey
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| Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 2:37 am Post subject: |
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| Muttly wrote: | | Most of the leagues I've played in jokers only count for aces, straights and flushes which I would think would now make the full house harder to get overall. |
I never ran into that outside of Pai Gao poker. That sounds like a cool way to do it. |
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Nutjob
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Location: somewhere dark and wet
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You can play this in golf, too. Start with 3 cards, every one-putt is +1 cards, every 2-putt is 0 and every three-putt is -1.
Of course, those flubbed chips to the fringe draw the ire of ye opp's, but o well. |
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Suited_Jock
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Joined: 20 Sep 2004
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| Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 3:29 am Post subject: |
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| Nutjob wrote: | You can play this in golf, too. Start with 3 cards, every one-putt is +1 cards, every 2-putt is 0 and every three-putt is -1.
Of course, those flubbed chips to the fringe draw the ire of ye opp's, but o well. |
Can you get an eagle? |
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