This is a bar bet. You bet another player "You cannot beat me at Poker even if we pick our hands out of a faceup deck, and you pick first."

The rules:
* First, a player picks five cards from the face up deck.
* Then, the other player picks five of the remaining cards.
* Suits are all ranked the same
* There is one draw phase where either player may get new cards.

QUESTION 1: How can you win your bet if the other player goes first, and picks a Royal Flush (10-J-Q-K-A of the same suit) as most people would?

QUESTION 2: How can you win your bet if you go first?

The bet doesn't claim that I am going to win the hand - only that my opponent will *not* win the hand. In both the first and second cases, if I pick a royal flush, the best my opponent can do is to pick the same hand (in a different suit, of course). If we both have the same hand, then my opponent has not beaten me. I've tied the hand and won my bet.

Posted by Jyqm on 2007-06-04 12:00:26