Variant Poker Hand Rankings Question

[Al Mirpuri]

As many of you will know there are alternative poker hands that can be included such as big tiger, little tiger (I just remember the terms not what constitutes them) so can anyone confirm what the name is of the five card hand that is all red and where it would rank in the normal poker hand ranks and if it is known as a lollapalooza or not.

Scarne's Guide To Modern Poker had a list of them or is it some old card game book by David Parlett?

Thanks in advance for any replies.

[Siegmund]

Believe that's a "blaze", and comes up 4.86% of the time (2 x 26C5/52C5, minus 0.20% for real flushes and straight flushes) in a 5-card hand.

That makes it just a shade more common than two pair - but if memory serves it's ranked between two pair and three of a kind (presumably because it's harder to improve).

[Siegmund]

I see, from wikipedia and the crosspost, that in fact this isn't what a blaze is nowadays - blame a 30-ish-year-old Hoyle, the only place I ever saw the term before, for that.

[chillrob]

I thought a blaze was a hand with all face cards? Maybe that is something else though. Never heard of a hand like the one you describe, although when people in my home game get it they say "Check it out - all red"!

Rob