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Re: five suit poker, I had an idea.

If one card of each rank has a dot added to its pips, then there are five suits, [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] and "dot." The dots should be evenly divided among the four "natural" suits by dotting A[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], 2[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], 3[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], 4[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] and so on. Note that clubs will have four dotted cards while the other suits will have three, not that it matters that much.

This allows for five different flush and straight-flush suits, and the possibility of drawing to eighteen outs with a four flush in clubs.

This obviously devalues flushes and straight-flushes, but it doesn't change straights, pairs or other rank-defined hands.

Would it devalue straight flushes so much that Quads should out-rank them?