I'm tinkering with an idea for a game I'm calling GigaPoker. I've put together a ranking of poker combinations. At the start of the game players would be playing more or less normal Texas Holdem, but the game would involve messing with the deck Balatro-style, getting opportunities to make six and even seven card combinations, and other wacky stuff.
Some of the rankings might seem out of place; in particular, the current list has anything involving straights pretty inflated. This is because I'm expecting the screwy mechanics I have planned like duplicating cards to do less to help with straights than other combos.
Thoughts lol? Any placements just seem wrong even if I'm accounting for planned screwyness? What do you think of the names? I think Ultima is kinda meh, haven't thought of something better yet
Kicker (a single card)
Pair (two cards with the same value)
Two Pair (four cards comprised of two Pairs)
Trips (three cards with the same value)
Three Pair (six cards comprised of three Pairs)
Straight (five consecutive cards)
Flush (five suited cards)
Full House (five cards comprised of Trips plus a Pair)
Quads (four cards with the same value)
Deep Flush (six suited cards)
Super Straight (six consecutive cards)
Village (seven cards comprised of Trips plus two Pairs)
Jumbo Flush (seven suited cards)
Stacked Sets (six cards comprised of two sets of Trips)
Straight Flush (five consecutive suited cards)
Deluxe (six cards comprised of Quads plus a Pair)
Macro Flush (suited Three Pair, Full House, or Quads)
Giga Straight (seven consecutive cards)
Yahtzee (five cards with the same value)
Royal Flush (Straight Flush which includes an Ace and a King)
Galactic Flush (suited Village or Stacked Sets)
Super Straight Flush (suited Super Straight)
Flush Deluxe (suited Deluxe)
Flush Yahtzee (five suited cards with the same value)
Giga Deluxe (seven cards comprised of Quads plus Trips)
Six-Pack (six cards with the same value)
Super Royale (Super Straight Flush which includes an Ace and a King)
Ultima (seven cards comprised of Yahtzee plus a Pair)
Flush Six (six suited cards with the same value)
Giga Straight Flush (suited Giga Straight)
Flush Giga Deluxe (suited Giga Deluxe)
Nukes (seven cards with the same value)
Flush Ultima (suited Ultima)
Giga Royale (Giga Straight Flush which includes an Ace and a King)
Flush Nukes (seven suited cards with the same value)
@100Anonymous I have to do some more to get to a minimum testable point but sounds good, you can be first in line for playtesting haha 😃
If there are weird ties because of wonky combinations like 'Macro Flush' or weird ties for any other reason, here are the tiebreaking procedures (I believe I've structured this so that the procedure should always agree with traditional poker tiebreakers, while also handling edge cases, similar to how the poker hand ranking themselves don't contradict traditional poker hand rankings)
