Home › Rules of Poker › Rules of Poker (If all pass up to the player)

Rules of Poker (If all pass up to the player)

If all pass up to the player who broke the pot, the latter takes the pool, and he can only be compelled to show the Jacks or better necessary to open. If, however, the opener is called he must show his whole hand. In any event, he must have a legal hand of five cards.

Should a player open a Jack and before the draw discover that he does not have legal openers his hand is foul and he forfeits his interest in that pot. Those who have come in play for the pool. Should a false opener not discover his error until after the draw his hand is foul and must be abandoned. As a penalty he must put up an amount equal to that then in the pot, the whole being played for by those who have made good.

The player who opens a pot on a pair, in order to draw to a four flush or a four straight may do so; but must lay the discard to one side, separate from any other card, and announce that the discarded card is one of his openers. When the hand has been played out the player will then turn over the discard and show that he had legal openers. I often sit and wonder where the old cards go I suppose the good ones go to heaven-the bad ones down below.

One Jack pot doesn't always make a winner.