ITH Poker Forum

[Damien]

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?

[nsidestrate]

In wild card poker, 5 of a kind beats a straight flush.

[Cript]

Bad ass game...I love it!

[nsidestrate]

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.

[Damien]

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....

[Henry]

I have never heard of bowling poker but it sound like a lot of fun.

[enteratlantis]

I have never heard of bowling poker but it sound like a lot of fun.

Me too !!! never heard of bowling poker??

[Muttly]

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.

[nsidestrate]

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.

[Nutjob]

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.

[Suited_Jock]

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?