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5-card poker games may be your enemy when trying to get a royal flush. In a 5-card stud or draw poker game, your probability of making a royal flush are a whopping 1 in about 650,000. Moreso, the royal flushes account for only 1 in 10 straight flushes, so the odds of landing a straight flush in the first place are about 1 in approximately 65,000. The value of flush goes all the way up to AKQJ9 of the same suit, and this is the biggest flush possible without having the strongest hand in poker – royal flush (AKQJT of the same suit). The highest flush beats not only all the lower flushes that will not be folding to our huge bets, but it also beats all sets (trips), two pairs, and pairs.

*JQKA/KQ (Royal/KQ)	No votes (0%)
JQQKK/A* (two pair/AA)	17 votes (100%)
some other way	No votes (0%)

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odiousgambit

I don't think either recipient set it right...

Royal Flush + Royal Match in Pai Gow Poker. This hand is similar in strategy to the 2 hand rule when you have a flush, straight, or straight flush in the hand.
So, in a game where it's possible to make a royal flush like draw poker or stud and two opponents both get a royal flush-is that a split pot or do the suit rankings come into play?

did they ask to have it set the House Way? I could see the dealer setting it wrong too.

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Ibeatyouraces

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rdw4potus

i agree, but I think my fellow players would have set that as quad aces with QJ up:-)

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sodawater

I'd set it as the royal with the KQ suited in the low hand just to make it easier for everyone to read my huge bonus hand.

beachbumbabs
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In my experience, to play your best odds it has to be AJoker up top, KKQQJ in the back. EXCEPT Harrah's LV for years paid a different schedule, where you had to keep a hand together to pay its value (the Rio did this too when they opened up, but quickly changed to what everybody else was doing, which was paying the bonus regardless how the hand was set). Harrah's paid a higher rate as well for FH because of this (6:1 FH instead of 5:1, with a pair it paid 12:1). So it depended on your base bet to bonus bet ratio how you might set the hand, as a FH/non-second pair was almost always a push, but 3OAK with a pair set was mostly a winner. House way was to always split the FH for the highest possible top. If I had this hand at Harrah's during this time, I would've held it for the bonus, because the worst it would do is push and pay. I'm pretty sure they finally dumped that paytable; nobody else, including their own properties in other places, was using it to my knowledge. And, even at Harrah's, if you're NOT playing the bonus, the Ajoker top is the only way to go.
This hand is similar in strategy to the 2 hand rule when you have a flush, straight, or straight flush in the hand, but also 2 pairs. It's almost always right to split the pairs and go for the win. That's the house way as well (there are a few exceptions, like 2 small pair and a flush or straight that includes the ace, most houses will keep the 2 small pair together and play ace whatever up top) but in either case, disregarding the flush or straight. However, if you (not the house) have a huge (say 8x base) bet on the ante, there are times when you virtually concede it will be a push and hold the straight/flush with no top (splitting your two pairs) just to protect the big bet. I think you have to decide what your tolerance for the riskier play will be (though there are those on here marvelous with numbers to tell you your chances); I tend to chicken out and protect the base bet at around 4x base. Generally, though, it's best to play as strong a top as the hand will allow; the house doesn't play to win, they play NOT TO LOSE, so there are times when it pays to be aggressive. Keep in mind that all houses seem to have slightly different house way rules, and find out what they are before you start. All in my experience....now to go see what the Wiz's numbers say about it. lol...

If the House lost every hand, they wouldn't deal the game.

Deucekies

EXCEPT Harrah's LV for years paid a different schedule, where you had to keep a hand together to pay its value (the Rio did this too when they opened up, but quickly changed to what everybody else was doing, which was paying the bonus regardless how the hand was set). Harrah's paid a higher rate as well for FH because of this (6:1 FH instead of 5:1, with a pair it paid 12:1). So it depended on your base bet to bonus bet ratio how you might set the hand, as a FH/non-second pair was almost always a push, but 3OAK with a pair set was mostly a winner. House way was to always split the FH for the highest possible top. If I had this hand at Harrah's during this time, I would've held it for the bonus, because the worst it would do is push and pay. I'm pretty sure they finally dumped that paytable; nobody else, including their own properties in other places, was using it to my knowledge. And, even at Harrah's, if you're NOT playing the bonus, the Ajoker top is the only way to go.

Late to the party, but was reading old threads and found this. What you're describing is a game called Jackpot Pai Gow Poker. I've never seen it anywhere, and like you said, it's probably been completely abandoned. I do have one story regarding it though.
My boss's friend was playing at (I think) Harrah's, and was playing the Jackpot Pai Gow table, but either had no idea that he wasn't playing Fortune or didn't know the difference. He was dealt Five Aces, and he played it like you would ordinarily play it (AAAxx/A*). Whoops. He got paid for trips. He asked the dealer 'Why didn't you tell me I had to keep them together to get paid?!' The dealer responded that he would have been instantly fired if he did.

Poker Royal Flush Vs Royal Flush 3

It's not hard to see why the game faded away. Many people probably became disgusted with the game by basically being tricked into throwing away a massive payout. Imagine getting a natural 7-card and not even getting paid 50:1 (Jackpot pays 30:1 for a straight flush). Interestingly though, Jackpot Pai Gow offers a tremendously low house advantage if played optimally, never going any higher than 2.36%. The additional edge must be in player errors such as not knowing you can't break up your bonus.

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Royal Flush

Ace high Straight Flush.

Ace of Spades King of Spades Queen of Spades Jack of Spades 10 of Spades in a single suit. Also frequently referred to as 'Broadway'.

Straight Flush

Five consecutive cards of the same suit.

Five sequential cards in the same suit. The highest type of Straight Flush is a Royal Flush, and the lowest is an A-2-3-4-5 hand (if Aces are low or high/low). This type of hand is referred to as a 'Steel Wheel'. Other Straight Flushes with special names include:

King of Clubs Queen of Clubs Jack of Clubs 10 of Clubs 9 of Clubs - Off Broadway (because it's shifted down one rank from a Royal Flush, or 'Broadway').

Four of a Kind

One of each suit in a single rank.

Also known as Quads. Many of the Four of a Kind hands have their own nicknames:

King of Clubs King of Diamonds King of Hearts King of Spades - Four Horsemen (of the Apocalypse)
Queen of Clubs Queen of Diamonds Queen of Hearts <