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Summary: Learn how the showdown works in the z poker variant in this free video series from our poker expert and professional card shark who will have you mastering this unique poker style in no time.
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Reg Brittain In 2006, Reg Brittain won $25,000 on Fox Sports Network's Poker Dome Challenge, and came close to playing for $1 million in the championship. Like many, Britt... read more
Now we're going to look at the showdown portion of how the Z works. In poker there is a showdown phase in the last hand of the last phase of a poker hand and decides who takes down the pot. The showdown is first done by the person who made the last bet, we'll say it's this guy. He has to take from his five down cards he has to use three and then from the up cards on the board he's got to use two to make his best card hand. The way Z works is I can use cards that are beside each other okay, cards that are connected. Here I can use the nine and the eight, I can use the eight and the ace or I can use the ace or the jack. So there is not even flush potential out there the way you know is that turn the cards 1 2 3 4 okay, in the showdown phase we can use 1 an 3 we can use 3 and 4 or we can use 2 and 4. So unfortunately there wasn't flush potential cause these cards can't be used here together but there is straight potential. So let's see what we got, there is straight potential here with the nine and the jack but we didn't get quiet there with a straight. We didn't get there on the flush it looks like we have is we have a pair of nines.