What causes the scoring fire effect to appear?

[FoxyLoxy]

So, I had assumed that the score particle fire effect only appears once you play a hand, as it goes through the calculations, and you exceed the target score.

But I was playing and as I selected the last card to make a flush, the fire effect started up.

When I deselected the last card in the flush, the fire died down again.

Rinse repeat. (Fun, actually.)

So, question: is this is a bug, or is there a way to make the fire appear when forming a hand?

(I'm running the latest macOS version.)

Thanks.

[FoxyLoxy]

Me again, 5 minutes later... it happened again.

This time it was a Straight Flush.

Is that trigger? A Straight Flush?

[Xaelon]

As far as I can tell the fire shows up when you would score high enough to win the blind in a single hand. The more you beat it by, the larger the fire.

So the reason why you were seeing fire when you picked the last card is because that hand would already score enough to win, even without further modifiers.

[malogoss]

The effect appears when the chipsXmult scored (or about to be scored) is greater than the Blind's chips.

When you select 5 cards that make a straight flush, the minimum chips and minimum multiplier are enough to guarantee you'll defeat the blind, at low ante level. So you see the fire effect even before playing the hand.

You'd get the same fire effect if you selected a 4 of a Kind at the ante 1 SB.

If your 5 cards make a full house, for example, it might be enough to defeat a blind in a single hand, but it needs the cards' chips, at minimum, to defeat it. So you have to play the hand and some cards need to score for the fire effect to happen.

[FoxyLoxy]

Thanks guys.