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How to Play the Best Flush Poker

March 18, 2008

There are a lot of different poker games out there. It seems like the possibilities are endless, even with one deck of cards. If you are interested in playing a new kind of game, you may want to check out best flush poker, a fairly easy way to shake things up when you are playing with a group of friends. 

The rules are simple; the only hands that can win are either full or partial flushes. You start by dealing five cards to begin the game and each player only gets three draws after that. Since partial flushes can win, a royal flush is the best hand and a two-card flush is the worst. Ties are broken by seeing whose flush contains the high card.  

The best part of the best flush draw poker game is that you get to work on your bluffing. If you’re used to Texas Hold ‘em or another game, then this is a skill you can work on even as you are goofing around with a game like best flush. It all depends on how many cards you draw. Everyone will have a two card flush with five cards, so all you need to do is convince the other players you have more than two cards in your flush. Maybe you just pick a card, maybe you pick two. Either way, you’re in their head. 

How about betting? Well this is the best part, because you can have a lot of bets and you can have a big table when you are playing best flush. Up to 10 players can play (if you can fit them all around the table). Bets are taken after each card is dealt. You should end up with a good pot, because everyone will have a two card flush and those with three will think they have a chance.  

If you are the dealer, then you have bit of an advantage over the rest of the players at the table. If the dealer wants to try a three-card bluff, then they can see if other players draw two cards in response. Then the dealer knows if they have the upper hand. It’s all about being the best bluffer. If you can do that in an off-the-wall game like Best Flush draw poker, then you will be able to carry some of that practice over to big stakes tables at big stakes games that you play.

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