About High Flush
High Flush throws out everything you know about poker hands except one thing: the suit. You and the house each get seven cards from a single deck, and the only hand that matters is the longest run of one suit. Four hearts beat three spades. When two flushes are the same length, the highest card decides, then the next, and so on.
You pay an ante to see your cards, then decide. Fold and the ante stays with the house. Raise and you add a second stake: one times the ante with a two-, three- or four-card flush, twice the ante with five cards of a suit, three times with six or seven. The house only takes part with at least three cards of a suit, nine high. If it cannot, your ante comes back twice and the raise is simply returned.
We show our suggested play for every hand: raise with any four-card flush or longer, raise with a three-card flush headed by a jack or better, fold the rest. You do not have to follow it; it is there so nobody is left guessing.
How a round works
- Choose the ante: 5, 10, 25, 50, 100 or 250 bolts.
- Press Deal. Your seven cards are sorted by suit and your longest flush is lit.
- Fold to give up the ante, or Raise to add the raise shown on the button.
- The house turns its cards. It needs a three-card flush, nine high or better, to take part.
- If the house takes part, the longer flush wins; equal length goes to the higher cards.
Pay plate
Everything below is what comes back for a stake of one bolt; multiply by your stake. The numbers are read from the same file the game uses.
| Situation | What happens |
|---|---|
| Raise allowed with a 2-card flush or longer | 1 × the ante |
| Raise allowed with a 5-card flush or longer | 2 × the ante |
| Raise allowed with a 6-card flush or longer | 3 × the ante |
| House has no 3-card flush, 9 high or better | Ante back twice, raise returned |
| House takes part, your flush is better | Ante and raise back twice |
| House takes part, its flush is better | Nothing back |
| House takes part, the flushes tie | Ante and raise returned |
| You fold | The ante stays with the house |
Fair play
Every result is drawn by your browser's own random number generator at the moment you press the button. Nothing is adjusted for your bolts, your history, the time of day or how long you have played, and the game cannot see who you are. Over a long run every stall returns a little less than it takes, as games of chance do; bolts have no cash value, so nothing real is lost or won.
