Jacks To Open Poker: The Showdown

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Summary: The player who bet or raised last must be the first to show cards. Learn how to play the showdown in jacks to open from a champion poker player in this free card video.

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Reg Brittain Reg Brittain has benefited from the poker boom of recent years. In 2006, Brittain won $25,000 on Fox Sports Network's Poker Dome Challenge. read more

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Jacks To Open Poker: The Showdown

All right, we're discussing the showdown in Jacks To Open and we've pretty much gone through the showdown in last segment but what, what happens in the showdown is that the player who bet or raised last must be the first show, to showdown his or her hand. That was you in our example, so you showdown a pair of kings with an ace kicker. Me, this is a hand that I would muck, I actually would never call with this hand but for the sake of our example I did. Now normally I would muck because it's not as good as your hand, but I'm going to go ahead and show it down and then the player on my left also cannot beat your hand, but he shows it down nonetheless. The reason being that I showed these hands is I want to make a point. For some reason the player on my left and I stayed in a game of Jacks To Open, when someone had opened the betting, we stayed in to the draw-around, through the draw and through the next betting round to the showdown with hands that were not even jacks, not even a pair of jacks. Now normally I wouldn't do this, but I did it here and I want to make a point. It's really bad! Because to ride this pair of eights, or this pair of threes, knowing that someone at the table has a better hand because they're required to have that better hand to open the betting. Bad, bad, bad call, so don't do it. That's all I have to say about that. I do want to say that typically in this game, a pair of kings is a so-so hand. You're looking for two pair of three of a kind, to win a game like Jacks to Open.