5 Card Trivia Discussion & Suggestions

[eejit101]

What if all cards do not go out. As at this current rate. 4 players would get to 5 cards fast. Then obviously you have people who get a couple of cards. You need 9 players here for full card allotments for the last card to be drawn,

[ScareCrowAKA]

so the community cards only come into play for the high hand jackpot? ... and the rest of the game is basically the same... do u mean "best hand without using community cards, need 5 to qualify" ?

I vote for the high hand qualification using the community cards to be jacks full of 10's or better.

and u better specify that the fist card drawn after 24 is the turn and the second card is the player who wins that question

[ScareCrowAKA]

say I have 5 cards 2 pair and eejit only has 3 cards but has trips... eejit wins? thats how I understand these rules

[NDN]

say I have 5 cards 2 pair and eejit only has 3 cards but has trips... eejit wins? thats how I understand these rules

Correct. It's the same format we used for the last contest - that part isn't changing. The best poker hand wins that portion of the contest, but the hand doesn't necessarily have to have five cards (thought it virtually always will).

I'm trying to use everyone's ideas and suggestions to come up with a contest that still rewards increased participation, but also provides those who cannot be as active as they'd like to be with a chance to win a prize.

I think we accomplish this with the high hand portion, which only requires you to have 2-cards to have a shot at the prize.

[NDN]

I think we'll need to run a full contest to find the pitfalls with these revisions, but right now, I think this one has the perfect amount of luck and strategy to keep things interesting and to appeal to a wider audience.

I just want to make sure we aren't missing anything obvious that could cause problems before we fire this one up again with the changes.

[ScareCrowAKA]

if u limit everyone to 5 cards, its possible that the best hand wont be a full 5 card hand... I dont like that part of it, but I will stil play, but if I have AAKK2, I shouldnt lost to 222 or 567, that dont seem right... unless u just change it to best 3 card poker hand w a 5 card per member limit

[NDN]

if u limit everyone to 5 cards, its possible that the best hand wont be a full 5 card hand... I dont like that part of it, but I will stil play, but if I have AAKK2, I shouldnt lost to 222 or 567, that dont seem right... unless u just change it to best 3 card poker hand w a 5 card per member limit

If you had AAKK2, you'd still lose to 222 or 22249, it wouldn't make a difference.

It's the exact same system we used for the last round. Someone with 222 could have beat someone with AAKKQQJ9876432.

This is always going to be ranked on a 5 card poker hand (not 3-card poker where 567 is a straight or three of a suit is a flush).

[ScareCrowAKA]

oh ok... so pretty much the only way someone w 3 or 4 cards will win is if they have trips, which isnt likely but could happen...

Im just saying it was diff. last time cuz u didnt have a limit of 5 cards so, AAA wouldnt beat u, cuz u were very likely to have a straight or flsuh if u had like 10 cards...

thats where I was coming from...

now if u have 5 cards and have KKKQ9 and someone has AAA, u will have to take ur chances of returning a card to the deck, which u prob. would anyways to get a boat or quads for the Jackpot hand

I get it

[NDN]

so the community cards only come into play for the high hand jackpot? ... and the rest of the game is basically the same... do u mean "best hand without using community cards, need 5 to qualify" ?

I vote for the high hand qualification using the community cards to be jacks full of 10's or better.

and u better specify that the fist card drawn after 24 is the turn and the second card is the player who wins that question

Yes. Community cards would strictly be used for the high hand portion of the game only.

However, once you reach five cards, you will have to use a bit of strategy to determine if you want keep your current five cards to beat the competition or if you want to risk drawing new cards to go for the high hand and risk losing to the competition.

[NDN]

What if all cards do not go out. As at this current rate. 4 players would get to 5 cards fast. Then obviously you have people who get a couple of cards. You need 9 players here for full card allotments for the last card to be drawn,

I really don't see this being an issue. At first it may take a little longer to complete this contest than the previous one did, but I think once more people catch on, we won't have a problem getting rid of the cards quickly.