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Summary: Understand how the showdown of roller coaster poker works in this free video series from our poker expert who will have you mastering roller coaster poker in no time.
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About the Expert
Reg Brittain Like many, Reg Brittain has benefited from the poker boom of recent years. He learned poker at age 9 from his “Papaw”, and he has been thankful ever since. In... read more
It's important to understand that round five in roller coaster is the only round with a showdown and it is important to understand why that's the case. After every round we have this 1 2 3 show and if you are in, you have a chip, let's say you and I are in we show each other our cards and we decide who wins. We'll say I won and you match the pot. What happened here is that only you and I know what each others cards are and the people who choose not to play don't know the values of our cards. This is important because as you go along the incomplete information factor is heightened and that is what makes poker, poker. It's a game of skill and a game of chance because you have money involved and you have incomplete information and since there is no betting rounds in the game of roller coaster, we need to something to bring up the skill factor. That is the incomplete information by not having a showdown until the end of the hand.