Similarly, cards lower than a 10, 2-9, in your off-suit cards, weaken your 10-high flush because they reduce the probability that the dealer will have a low-ranking three-card flush that you can beat. The presence of high cards in your four off-suit cards increase the power of your 10-high three-card flush because they reduce the probability that the dealer will beat your hand with a higher ranking three- card flush.

In order to better decisions when playing a 10-high three-card flush, this strategy requires that you count the number of high cards in your hand and, sometimes, check your suit distribution.

The differences in the ranks of the off-suit cards, and, less importantly, their difference in suit distribution are the reason these T-8-6 flushes have such different expected values. Let’s look at the EV of 2 hands with the same T86 flush but with very different off-suit cards: So, the off-suit cards need only be considered when you play a 10-high three-card flush, which will occur with a frequency of about 5.3% of all your hands.

T32 to T98 - it depends upon the off-suit cards.

The strategy for a three-card flush depends first upon the ranks of the cards in the flush: That strategy for three card flushes was developed without regard to cards that are not part of the flush.īelow is a slightly more powerful strategy that does take into account the off-suit cards in a hand with a three-card flush.

The only published strategy for High Card Flush has been the Charles Mousseau Strategy, which is to make a maximum Raise bet on any four-card or higher flush, and to Raise any three-card flush of rank T-8-6 or greater, otherwise FOLD. The casino game High Card Flush has been growing in popularity.

High card flush layout