Yep. I’m a bored slacker. Here’s what’s been going through my mind for the last few minutes:
We need more poker hands. What I’ve been able to come up with are as follows. (“H” is for hearts.)
[ul][li]The Fibonacci: A,A,2,3,5[/li][li]The Ugly Fib: Any consecutive Fibonacci numbers[/li][li]The Fibonacci Suicide: 2H, 3H, 5H, 8H, KH[/li][li]The Fibonacci Flush: This should be obvious. It’s when you have a Fibonacci that you think will win, so you bet heavily and end up losing the hand. Or, it could be when they’re all the same suit. That makes sense, too.[/li][li]A Prime Hand: All prime numbers, each different from the other four in hand (J, K prime)[/li][li]Even Prime: Same as Prime Hand, except that one card is a 2[/li][li]Vulgar Prime: All primes, some repeats[/li][li]Straight Prime: A set of consecutive prime numbers[/li][li]Straight Prime Flush: Obvious…[/li][li]Complex Hand: When a Joker is accidently shuffled into the deck. Also known as The Dealer’s Demise.[/li][li]Golden Hand: A,6,A,8,10 (from the golden mean: 1.61810…)[/li][li]Golden String: 10,J,A,A,10 (from the golden string 1011010110…)[/li][li]The Suicide Beast: KH,6,6,6 [/li][li]Satan’s Convenience Store: 6,6,6,7,J[/li][li]And, of course, the Royal Sampler: 3,6,10,J,K[/ul][/li]I guess they’re all pretty specific, so they’ll be infrequent, I suppose.
There’s a few minutes down. What to do? What to do?
The Soviet Flush: All red cards
The Farrakan Flush: All black cards
The Librarian Straight: Any five cards found back to back in this sequence Ace Eight Five Four Jack King Nine One Queen Seven Six Ten Three Two
My girlfriend’s family’s poker house rules include a “squish,” which is a 3- or 4-card straight; it’s usually invoked only for split-pot hands (“Best squish splits with the winner”).
Ah, yes. Similar to a Khmer Rouge Flush, except the KRF is dealt by a ten-year old kid with an AK-47. If the kid is has money in the pot on that hand, it’s best to fold right away.
Our regular poker game participants have been trying to spread the acceptance of the ‘condo’. Which is any hand with three pairs, obviously in stud or hold-em. I have always felt that is a hand just crying out to be named.
I recently wrote an article on non-standard poker hands for Wikipedia:
From lowest to highest:
High card
Pair
Four Straight - Also called Bobtail Straight. Four cards in consecutive order.
Four Flush - Also called Bobtail Flush. Four cards of the same suit.
Two Pair
Blaze - Also called Blazer. All cards are jacks, queens, or kings.
Flash - One card of each suit plus a joker.
Little Bobtail - A three card straight flush (three cards of the same suit in consecutive order).
Three of a Kind
Skeet - Also called Pelter or Bracket. A hand with a deuce; a three or a four; a five; a six, a seven, or an eight; and a nine.
Five and Dime - All cards are fives, sixes, sevens, eights, nines, or tens with no pair.
Skip Straight - Also called Alternate Straight, Dutch Straight, or Skipper. Cards are in consecutive order, skipping every other card. (Example 3-5-7-9-J).
Round the Corner Straight - Consecutive cards including a ace which counts as both the high and low card. (Example Q-K-A-2-3).
Straight
Little Dog - All cards are deuces, threes, fours, fives, sixes, or sevens with no pair.
Big Dog - All cards are nines, tens, jacks, queens, kings, or aces with no pair.
Little Tiger - Also called Little Cat. All cards are threes, fours, fives, sixes, sevens, eights, and nines. (Some house rules prohibit nines.)
Big Tiger - Also called Big Cat. All cards are eights, nines, tens, jacks, queens, or kings with no pair.
Flush
Full House
Big Bobtail - A four card straight flush (four cards of the same suit in consecutive order).
Four of a Kind
Straight Flush
Skeet Flush - The same cards as a Skeet and all in the same suit.
Five of a Kind - Four of a kind plus a wild card, or three of a kind plus two wild cards.
We call these the “every-other straight” and allow them if the dealer specifies. We play a lot of dealer’s choice. I’ve also heard them called Big Tiger and Little Tiger, but I think that’s a misuse of those terms.
Of existing hands, there’s also the Wheel aka the Bicycle, which is an Ace-low straight. In most hi-low or lowball games, this is the lowest possible hand.
