please, explain to me how this isn't a straight, no really, I IMPLORE YOU

[Kaiden Wilkins]

yup.. im getting real tired of this game.

MY HAND IS THUS!:
ace of spades, nine of clubs, eight of spades, seven of clubs, and 6 of spades
this is called a STRAIGHT... as any poker player knows, its an ace high straight. However anytime I play a hand similair to this its not considered a straight. EXCELLENT WORK!

I have over 100 hours in the Poker night at the inventory games so i think know what im talking about :) fix your game pls

[Melodia]

You guys sure seem to have an abundance of goats.

[senitewolf]

Originally posted by Kaiden Wilkins:

Originally posted by senitewolf:

are we implored now?

Hi! I understand this response perhaps was supposed to be comedic but it doesn't really make sense and also contributes nothing to the conversation, please refrain from polluting the replies in the future so that we can focus on the subject at hand, thanks! :)

As others have mentioned, this matter has been answered (several times by now in fact). So while yes, partially comedic, it also was meant to point at whether or not you are willing to mark one of the (many) replies explaining the matter to you as answer to avoid this thread sliding into even more into a meme thread ;)

Edit: Of course if you call personal experience higher authority than WPT rules, nobody will be able to help.

[Ronald Brain]

Originally posted by Kaiden Wilkins:

If you'd like to go the route of citations and whatnot, I present to you a firsthand source; something invaluable compared to a secondary source (some poker website). My 'citation' is my firsthand experience with poker. If you're not going to continue the discussion in a constructive manner, please refrain from overshadowing other helpful replies. Best regards, thanks.

Sorry, we don't accept "trust me bro" source here. You either present a screenshot, video or anything of that matter, in those games you play, that demonstrate 6789A or whatnots are valid Straight, and we can talk. Otherwise, just go play those game instead. Balatro does NOT adhere to obscure Poker rules, the hands are CLEARLY defined in the game, and you're free to not accept that.

[BaconHer0]

Originally posted by Kaiden Wilkins:

I've played hundreds of hours of poker, thousands of hands. I've played poker in the Scarface game, San Andreas, Red Dead, Poker Night 1, Poker Night 2, Mario 64 DS, etc. And then suddenly for the first time in my poker career

I had a career in City Planning too. Over a thousand hours of Sim City, Anno and Tropico under my belt. I was absolutely shocked when real world civil engineering firms didn't accept that on my resume

[de4dcowboy]

as someone who has played texas holdem, omaha and many other variations of poker over 15 years, what you described is not a straight. never has and never will be.

[ulia]

That's not a straight, what you're describing is a crooked.

[malogoss]

To those gifting jesters, you are rewarding a behavior you don't like. It's like giving a treat to a dog after it took a crap under the kitchen table.

Gift positive awards to encourage behaviors you like instead, that simple.

[Kaiden Wilkins]

Originally posted by ulia:

That's not a straight, what you're describing is a crooked.

Thanks for the help, I'll look into this!

[yorky5305]

Hey Kaiden I am 40 yrs old and played online poker at poker stars (before it turned to crap separating some countries, now its almost impossible to play sit and go and good tourneys with high payouts are damn near non existent at least in Ontario, Canada) my point I have played poker for 22 years and for 6 years of those 22 yrs I played almost everyday for real money of course...There is not a straight that can be made with the cards on your original post..your other example that had two Aces would be considered a Pair of AA...Balatro poker hands for the most part are exactly the same as Texas holdem excluding of course 5 of a kind and flush five ect ect..I challenge you to find proof that a straight can be made with the cards in your post in Texas Holdem and share that proof because it would have to be a brand new poker hand option and every single Poker Site would have to update their data....I do believe you might be confusing your hand maybe with a different Poker Game :)

[Moyai]

Bait used to be believable

[Dollop of Mayo]

hey everybody I have the following hand

Jack of Spades, Ten of Spades, Swamp, Black Lotus, and Pot of Greed

To anybody even REMOTELY familiar with Poker, this would be an EASY Royal Flush. And yet when I try to play it, it won't score! What's wrong, LocalThunk? You only play Old Maid or something?!

[Moyai]

Originally posted by Dollop of Mayo:

hey everybody I have the following hand

Jack of Spades, Ten of Spades, Swamp, Black Lotus, and Pot of Greed

To anybody even REMOTELY familiar with Poker, this would be an EASY Royal Flush. And yet when I try to play it, it won't score! What's wrong, LocalThunk? You only play Old Maid or something?!

Classic mistake, that just displays as a high card at first because Pot of Greed draws 2 cards during card scoring (even if you'll always get a certain hand). It's an obvious royal flush if you draw the right cards, but otherwise your hand scores practically nothing. I only ever take it on Checkered Deck runs for that reason, but even then I lost my last run to a high card draw against the Needle. Still mad about that run.

[Wheelchair Murdura]

Originally posted by Kaiden Wilkins:

I understand your concerns about trolling, but Im asking you to view this from my perspective.

View it from my perspective, I was one of the chief technical operators at chernobyl and even as we saw the core overheat and realized a catastrophy was pretty much unavoidable, we still had time to all have a good laugh in the control room over someone thinking this troll would be even remotely believable to anyone.

[smhunter771]

Kaiden (my grandsons name)

Hope this clears this up for you.

A straight is a hand in poker that ranks higher than three of a kind but less than a flush. It is sixth on the list of poker hand rankings and it is made up of five sequential, consecutive cards.

An easy way to remember what is a straight in poker is that it consists of five cards in a row.

Key word - consecutive.

Hope this helps.

[strandd505]

I really enjoy your profile and all the rules and regulation there are, and this thread. i love ridiculousness!! Thats not a Spike Lee quote pimpin. come on... you actually thought spike lee said that...geezus. Workout that brain son, i implore you!