Stupid question about a stupid hand

Glowingmind · 2007-10-08 20:36:34

Now that this part of the poker fourm has been devoted to the eternal questions "Who's prawn is that?" (it's flushdraw's) and "What can we do about our flame haired brethren other than shun them at poker tables?" (that's a rhetorical question) i've decided to ask a question that has bugged me for many years (or the last 15…

08-10-2007 09:36PM

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Now that this part of the poker fourm has been devoted to the eternal questions

"Who's prawn is that?" (it's flushdraw's)

and

"What can we do about our flame haired brethren other than shun them at poker tables?" (that's a rhetorical question)

i've decided to ask a question that has bugged me for many years (or the last 15 mins, i forget). Despite having briefly studied statistics at university (so briefly that i risked getting booted out of UCD in my attempt to pass), i never bothered to try to figure this out....

The marvelous hand that is the Low Straight (eg 2345, 9TJQ) - where would it rank in the standard poker hand rankings? Better or worse than trips?

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#2 09-10-2007 07:06AM

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there is a stud game called sökö where this hand is ranked between 1 pair and 2 pair.

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