[frogjerk]

A straight flush on the widow or are you holding a straight flush?

[frogjerk]

Poker Ping!

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[trebb]

Put them back up your sleeve for future hands...

[Mathews]

Go with highest hole card.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

The winner is........

[taxcontrol]

Same rules still apply - best 5 cards.

In the case of a flush on the board, it is possible that one or more players will be also suited and then the order of the flush held by the individuals would carry the table.

For example

my hold - A-clubs, Jack of Diamonds


Table - A-Diamonds, 10 Diamonds, 8 Diamonds, 5 diamonds, 7 Diamonds

your hold - King Diamonds, King Hearts


You would win because your flush would run as A K 10 8 7
My flush is only A J 10 8 7

[BenLurkin]

You can bet. If the other players fold it is your pot. If theyu call you split the pot.

[AngryJawa]

When I flop a straight flush, I normally jump out of my chair, do a happy dance on top of the table, and give a really big tip to the nearest drink wench.

My opponents say that's a tell, but that's 'cuz I'm all up in their head. Strategery, baby. 8^)

[VRWCtaz]

You use the hand made up of the five highest cards of the seven from the two in your hand, the flop, the turn, and the river. If your two original cards aren't needed for the best hand then they aren't used. In the situation you describe, the hand would be a tie with both players holding a straight flush.

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

Split pot for all that stay!

[JLS]

Well if it is less than an ace high straight flush the hand is still in competition and you bet as usual. That is if you have J, 10, 9, 8, 7 of clubs on the board, anyone in the hand still might have the Q of clubs in the hole.

So you can bet. Probably both sides go all in and split the pot. But if that Q of clubs in my example or the next highest card in that suit is in anyone's hand, they will probably knockout anyone else in that hand.

Seriously, wouldn't you go all in in such a case? I know I would be very hessitant to let someone get a pot that probably is a split pot. Of course if it is an ace high straight flush on the board, everyone left in the hand will go all in and split the pot.

[deport]

The highest five cards win whether it's the board or a combination of board and hold cards.... best five. If it's the board then it's a shared win among those that remained in the hand

[Yo-Yo]

If the community cards make the best hand for both of you, you split the pot.

Forming a Five Card Hand

In holdem, players use the best combination of their two pocket cards and the five board cards to form a five-card poker hand. Unlike Omaha (another type of flop game otherwise similiar to holdem), players can use any combination of their two pocket cards and the five board cards. So players can use...

1. Both their pocket cards and three of the board cards. 2. One of their pocket cards and four of the board cards. 3. Neither of their pocket cards and all five board cards, which is called "playing the board". In fact, players must use the exact combination of cards to make the best possible hand. Even if a player miscalls his or her hand, they still are credited with the best possible hand they could make. The idea is that the cards speak for themselves, and "cards speak" is the term used to reference the idea that your hand is the best possible combination of cards available to you.

Another idea that is essential to all poker games where players use the best five out of seven cards (or six, or ten, or whatever) is that you only use five cards. If two players have the same hand, they don't go on to a sixth or seventh card to determine who the winner is.

[MikefromOhio]

you have to play a hand like that by ear.

If your opponents have a possible higher straight flush, then you have to play it easy.

If you are more or less certain they can't beat you, try to get one of them to bet it up with you.

[Dick Bachert]

Unless a player has the NEXT HIGHER card in sequence and suit in the str8 flush IN THE HOLE, the BOARD plays and it's a split pot.

[GOP_Raider]

What were your hole cards? Usually if there's a straight flush on the board--and I've only seen this once in B&M casinos BTW, you're essentailly playing for a split pot unless someone has a card that makes a higher straight flush.