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High Card Flush is a casino table game gaining in popularity. The game was the brainchild of a dealer at the Rio (1) and was the winner of Raving’s 2012 Cutting Edge Table Games Conference Competition and Casino Enterprise Management’s 2013 International Table Game Awards (2) == Rules 1. High Card Flush is played with a standard 52-card deck of playing cards. 2. To begin play, each player makes the mandatory Ante wager, and if desired, the optional bonus side wagers. 3. The player and dealer each receive seven cards face down. 4. Hands are evaluated in the following fashion: - The first ranking criteria is the greatest number of cards in any one suit. This is referred to as the "maximum flush." For instance, any hand with a maximum four-card flush beats any hand with a maximum three-card flush, but loses to any hand with a maximum five-card flush. - The second ranking criteria is the standard poker-rankings for flushes (High Card Flush); that is, a hand with a maximum four-card flush of K-Q-J-T would beat a hand with a maximum four-card flush of K-Q-J-9, but lose to a hand with a maximum four-card flush of A-4-3-2. 5. Each player then decides upon one of the following options: - Fold, and surrender the Ante. - Call, placing a second bet equal to at least the Ante. The maximum amount of the Call wager depends on the rank of the player’s hand: 	With a two-, three- or four-card flush, the maximum Call wager is equal to the Ante wager. 	With a five-card flush, the maximum Call wager is double the Ante wager. 	With a six- or seven-card flush, the maximum Call wager is triple the Ante wager. 6. Once all players have decided, the dealer turns over his seven cards and evaluates his hand in a similar fashion as described above. 7. If the dealer does not have at least a three-card flush, nine-high, all remaining players have their Antes paid, and the Call bets are pushed. 8. If the dealer has at least a three-card flush, nine-high, the dealer's hand is compared to each of the other players: o All players with a higher-ranking hand win, and have their Ante and Call wagers paid at even money. o All players with a lower-ranking hand lose, and have their Ante and Call wagers collected. o Players with the exact same ranking hand as the dealer push both their Ante and Call wagers. 9. Finally, any player who made the Bonus wager has his hand evaluated against the Bonus pay table, and the Bonus wager is either paid or collected as necessary.

Side Wagers (3)

== Flush Side Wager Players are paid on the “Flush” side wager when they have a flush of 4 or more cards and are paid according to the pay table below: Cards	Pays	Combinations	Probability	Return 7	300	6,864	0.000051	0.015392 6	100	267,696	0.002001	0.200095 5	10	3,814,668	0.028514	0.285135 4	1	26,137,540	0.195370	0.195370 3 or less	-1	103,557,792	0.774064	-0.774064 Total		133,784,560	1.000000	-0.078072 Overall house advantage of 7.8%

== Straight Flush Side Wager Players are paid on the “Straight Flush” side wager when they have a straight flush of 3 or more cards and are paid according to the pay table below (3): Cards	Pays	Combinations	Probability	Return 7	8000	32	0.000000	0.001914 6	1000	1,568	0.000012	0.011720 5	100	39,924	0.000298	0.029842 4	60	676,148	0.005054	0.303240 3	7	8,642,916	0.064603	0.452223 2 or less	-1	124,423,972	0.930032	-0.930032 Total		133,784,560	1.000000	-0.131093 Overall house advantage of 13.1%

High Card Flush can be found at Binion’s, Flamingo, Four Queens, Green Valley Ranch Resort, Harrah’s, Harrah’s Laughlin, M Resort, Planet Hollywood, Red Rock Resort and Sunset Station. At least one table is offered at Hollywood Casino in Charles Town, West Virginia.

(1)	http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2014/feb/16/easy--learn-high-card-flush-gaining-popularity-tab/ (2)	http://www.galaxygaming.com/games/table-games/high-card-flush/ (3)	http://wizardofodds.com/games/high-card-flush/  and Charles Mousseau - tgscience.com