Does a fouled hand count as "getting a royal flush"? (1 Viewer)

[MrCatPants]

Pretty simple. Playing a split hand game. Player shuffles his hand together on the turn while he is thinking and then gives a big "oh f^%k". we tell him his hand is fouled - no clear way to separate it and we are pretty deep into the hand.

Hand finishes and he fishes out his hold 'em hand to show he turned a royal flush.

Can he say "I had my first royal flush."/"I had a royal flush last night." or not, given he fouled his hand?

 

[CraigT78]

You might run the worst game I've ever heard of.

 

[MrCatPants]

You might run the worst game I've ever heard of.

You're the worst Ive ever heard of.

 

[Jers28]

I mean, he can say whatever he likes. He can say he’s Batman, for example.

 

[CraigT78]

You're the worst Ive ever heard of.

There's a reason people wear "Don't be a Craig" tshirts to my meetup.

 

[Jimulacrum]

IMO it counts for the purpose of tallying lifetime royal flushes or whatever. Assuming he's correct about the split he remembers, he did have a royal for a brief moment before he fouled his hand.

I wouldn't accept it for anything meaningful, though, like claiming a high-hand bonus.

 

[shorticus]

Good Story, but it doesn’t count.

 

[Rieguy]

If I were there I would've punched the guy in the face.
You're a sick person.

Edit - Oops, wrong CarPants thread. Still, if the shoe fits.

 

[Colquhoun]

If you hit a golf ball out of bounds and it hits a tree and bounces back , then goes into the hole...is it a hole-in-one?

Nope.

 

[shorticus]

If you hit a golf ball out of bounds and it hits a tree and bounces back , then goes into the hole...is it a hole-in-one?

Nope.

Ummmmm what?

 

[BarrieJ3]

Question don’t even make sense. It’s a mixed game. I don’t even play that often and seen plenty of royals and 5+ of a kinds.

Not sure why it matters what the cat says. Or how you’d keep him from saying it.

 

[Colquhoun]

Ummmmm what?

It means…if you do something that ends up being deemed illegal, you cannot claim any positive outcome that follows.

 

[TheBigTater]

You might run the worst game I've ever heard of.

 

[DrStrange]

Sure! let the player brag on his fouled royal. Who cares? If it makes the player happy, then go for it.

Though I would be tempted to point out that it takes a remarkably bad poker player to find a way to lose the pot with a royal flush in hand. -=- DrStrange

 

[glynn]

It's only slightly more remarkable than if he had folded suited broadway preflop when he would have hit a royal, and many times more embarrassing. Sure, let him tell the story of when he fouled a royal flush! The story can be the consolation prize if he wants it.

 

[shorticus]

It means…if you do something that ends up being deemed illegal, you cannot claim any positive outcome that follows.

I know what you’re trying to explain, but I believe you’re incorrect. If your balk strikes a tree that is OB and lands in the cup, that, in fact, is a hole out.

…but I digress

 

[Josh Kifer]

Fuck no. My dumb play does not give me the badge of earning pass. Ya hit your first royal when you hit for first royal. Until then, you have a "I folded a royal" story. You get that badge.

I don't have a "hit a straight flush and kings for 35k in Pai Gow" story, I have a "didn't play the bonus even tho the dealer told me to 3 times and got paid out 10 bucks on a straight flush and pair " story. Work with what ya got...

 

[shorticus]

Also, I’m more likely to believe someone nut on your table over this foolishness.

 

[Josh Kifer]

I know what you’re trying to explain, but I believe you’re incorrect. If your balk strikes a tree that is OB and lands in the cup, that, in fact, is a hole out.

…but I digress

This post angers me way more than it should.....

 

[Jimulacrum]

Ya hit your first royal when you hit [your] first royal.

He did hit his first royal. He just killed it by accident, but for that brief moment, he had live cards in his hand plus the cards on the board to make a royal. You don't have to go all the way to showdown to claim you had a flush or a straight or whatever. If you had it, you had it, even if you ended up folding or getting your hand killed by a technicality. Same rules should apply.

 

[Colquhoun]

I know what you’re trying to explain, but I believe you’re incorrect. If your balk strikes a tree that is OB and lands in the cup, that, in fact, is a hole out.

…but I digress

I always thought the rule was as soon as it crossed the OB plane, it was OB.
Lots of conflicting info doing a search

 

[MrCatPants]

If I were there I would've punched the guy in the face.
You're a sick person.

Edit - Oops, wrong CarPants thread. Still, if the shoe fits.

Subject in question is indeed a sick person...

You should feel bad.

 

[Eriks]

People don’t seem to be able to keep their nuts to themselves in your game, so why should this guy be any different?

 

[shorticus]

People don’t seem to be able to keep their nuts to themselves in your game, so why should this guy be any different?

Him and @Himewad need to switch poker room themes.

 

[Josh Kifer]

He did hit his first royal. He just killed it by accident, but for that brief moment, he had live cards in his hand plus the cards on the board to make a royal. You don't have to go all the way to showdown to claim you had a flush or a straight or whatever. If you had it, you had it, even if you ended up folding or getting your hand killed by a technicality. Same rules should apply.

He folded his first royal. But he didn't have his first royal. No badge!

 

[MrCatPants]

He folded his first royal. But he didn't have his first royal. No badge!

Youre grumpy today.

 

[Josh Kifer]

Youre grumpy today.

NO BADGE!

 

[Kam]

Youre grumpy today.

As opposed to…

 

[MrCatPants]

As opposed to…

last time he hugged me i felt loved.

 

[Jimulacrum]

He folded his first royal. But he didn't have his first royal. No badge!

He had it. Then he folded it. He had to have had it in the first place to have folded it.

However, fair to say he never proved it to anyone else before the cards were mixed, so he has no witnesses.