The dealer must hold a qualifying hand before there is a showdown. With a six or seven-card flush, the maximum raise is 3X the ante wager.With a five-card flush, the maximum raise is 2X the ante wager.

With a two, three or four-card flush, the maximum raise is equal to 1X the ante wager.

Raising can be made in multiples of the ante, but this is limited based on the number of flush cards held in the player’s hand. There are no additional cards such as exposed community cards as used in other alternative games.Ī player may raise by placing a second bet equal to at least the ante in the appropriate betting area on the table. Each player uses cards in their seven-card hand to decide whether to raise and stay in the game, or fold their hand, drop out and immediately lose the Ante.

The players make an ante wager and then all players and the dealer are dealt seven cards. Poker ranking, such as Ace high, only apply to the dealer’s qualifying hand and breaking the tie when both the dealer and the player hold the same number of suited cards. Even though the game utilizes a standard 52-card poker deck, the object of the game is based on the number of cards held of the same suit, also knowns as the “maximum flush,” of the player or dealer’s seven-card hand. HCF is one of the alternative games that is not directly based on the traditional game of poker. HCF takes the reader into a different type of alternative game all together. In this article we will examine similar methods of attack with the game of High Card Flush (HCF). So far, I have examined the alternative games of Three Card Poker (TCP) and Mississippi Stud Poker (MSP) regarding various ways to attack the game both legally (advantage play) and illegally (cheating). For the purpose of this article, I will be referring to the game as High Card Flush. Note : High Card Flush and I Love Suits are virtually the same game offered by two different table game suppliers.

Flush high card rules