On a five-player game of Poker, what is the lowest possible hand you can get that still wins?
>>7657485
Jack high.
>>7657492
OP here. I probably should have put down my secondary question. What cards would be on the board and each hand if this were true? I've thought about this for a while and thought "maybe 4chan can do the work for me" so I went here.
It's all standard Texas Hold 'Em Rules.
>>7657499
1: J S 3 D
2: 2 C 3 S
3: 2 S 3 H
4: 2H 3 C
5: 2D 5 S
Then 7, 4, 9, 8, 6
>>7657499
Pretty simple. In order to get a 9-high, you have 2345678, 7 cards. These must make up every player's hand except yours.
Five of those cards need to be face-up. WLOG let's say 23456 are face-up. We have 9 cards left to fill into the hands of the players with the last one being the high 9. But since none of the cards can be 23456, that means there are only 8 cards to chose from (7 and 8 of all suits). So the best you can do is get two people tie with a 9-high.
Thus (since it's easy to construct a situation where a Jack high wins) Jack high is the lowest win.
>>7657524
Thanks!
>>7657505
Sorry if I'm dumb, but doesn't player 5 have a straight?
>>7657492
Eight high
>>7657646
whoops.
>>7657524
B-but, 10 is higher than 9 and lower than Jack? Why isn't 10 high the lowest win?
down on the table: 2 4 6 8 9
1: 3 7
2: 3 7
3: 3 7
4: 3 7
5: 5 10
So high ten seems to me to be the lowest. The suit doesn't matter, unless you want to calculate the probability of this configuration happening.
>>7657485
22345
Seriously? If everyone else has mismatched cards, then a pair wins.