Poker Race Who will reach the finish line?

At first, anyone might confused a High Low Jim for a split-pot game, just like any other High Low poker games. In the case of High Low Jim poker game though, a player needs to choose whether to play high or low before revealing their cards near the end of the game. High Low Jim is quite an interesting game laden with twists for anyone to enjoy. It is the only stud game wherein players can see all their cards. Usually, a maximum of seven players can play the game.

To begin the game, each player must place their antes to be added to the pot. An ante is a sort of forced bet each player must place, often in small amounts only. Once the antes has been placed by all players in the table. the dealer can proceed in giving seven cards each to all players. The players may examine their cards and must decide if they will play for the high or the low hand. In this game, no one can play for both hand. There is no need to announce what hand a player will play, they must proceed in choosing five cards out of the seven in their hand to make the best possible hand. Players are still left with two cards at this moment, one of which will be discarded, so that makes a total of six cards in a player’s hand now.

From the five cards that players has formed, they must now choose only four and put them on the table facing down. The two remaining cards must be placed on both sides of the four cards. If the player decides that he is going to play a high hand, the card that was taken away to form his five-card hand must be placed to the right of the four cards in the table. If he is playing a low hand, that card must be placed on the left side. After this is done, all players will turn their top cards at the same time to reveal what card it was and this will be followed by a round of betting. The three remaining cards will be turned over too all at the same time with betting in between until the final round. Again, flipping over the left card means that the player wishes to play the low hand, while flipping over the right card means the player is vying for the high hand. No player may scoop the pot, meaning get both the half-pot, unless every other player in the game has already folded. Players with the highest and lowest five-card hand will win the half-pot.