Comments on: Fibonacci poker http://martian.org/marty/2003/09/10/fibonacci-poker/ Marty was here! Mon, 21 Mar 2011 14:26:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Phil http://martian.org/marty/2003/09/10/fibonacci-poker/comment-page-1/#comment-94895 Phil Sat, 18 Sep 2010 03:06:57 +0000 http://uchi.martian.org/marty/2003/09/10/fibonacci-poker/#comment-94895 Three combos, but one involves a pair of aces... ...with two combos you would have 2048 possible hands, with three (distinct cards) it adds up to 3072. The pair of aces makes it somewhere in between, and I'm too lazy to calculate the exact value. In any case, it puts the Fibonacci straight higher than a full house, but lower than four of a kind. The Fibonacci straight flush should beat any straight flush, although the "high" Fibonacci straight flush (2-3-5-8-K of the same suite, aka Royal Fibonacci) has the same odds as the Royal Flush. Whether it beats it or not then becomes a matter of taste... ...if you go only by the rule that a Fibonacci straight is stronger than a regular straight, then the Royal Fibonacci wins. But since the odds are identical, you may decide that a Royal Flush "always is the strongest hand", and has acquired rights to the title. Anyways, the odds of ever having to enforce that rule are rather slim :). Three combos, but one involves a pair of aces… …with two combos you would have 2048 possible hands, with three (distinct cards) it adds up to 3072. The pair of aces makes it somewhere in between, and I’m too lazy to calculate the exact value. In any case, it puts the Fibonacci straight higher than a full house, but lower than four of a kind.

The Fibonacci straight flush should beat any straight flush, although the “high” Fibonacci straight flush (2-3-5-8-K of the same suite, aka Royal Fibonacci) has the same odds as the Royal Flush. Whether it beats it or not then becomes a matter of taste… …if you go only by the rule that a Fibonacci straight is stronger than a regular straight, then the Royal Fibonacci wins.

But since the odds are identical, you may decide that a Royal Flush “always is the strongest hand”, and has acquired rights to the title.

Anyways, the odds of ever having to enforce that rule are rather slim :).

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