Card Poker
Seven real sports cards. Five picks. Build the best poker hand you can — same-year cards make pairs, same-sport cards make flushes, and five rookies from one sport is a Royal Flush. Five hands per game, shareable final score.
How It Works
- You get 5 hands. Each hand deals 7 real sports cards.
- Pick 5 of the 7 to build your best Card Poker hand.
- Same-year cards = pairs, trips, quads. Same-sport 5 = Flush. 5 consecutive decades = Straight.
- Royal Flush: 5 rookie cards, all same sport. Rarest hand, 10,000 points.
- Same-player bonus: +200 pts per repeat player in your hand.
In All-Sports mode the deal is biased toward one sport per hand — Flush attempts are viable.
Frequently Asked Questions
▶How do poker hands work with sports cards?
Same-year cards act like rank matches — four cards from 1989 = Four of a Kind, three from 2018 + two from 1952 = Full House. Same-sport cards act like suits — five baseball cards = Flush. Five consecutive decades (e.g., 1960s–2000s) = Straight. Royal Flush is the rarest: five rookie cards all from the same sport.
▶What are the point values?
Royal Flush 10,000. Straight Flush 5,000. Four of a Kind 2,500. Full House 1,500. Flush 1,000. Straight 750. Three of a Kind 400. Two Pair 200. One Pair 100. High Card is based on the max card value in your hand (value ÷ 100, minimum 20). Same-player pairs add a +200 bonus each — find two Mickey Mantle cards in your hand and you stack the bonus.
▶Is the deal fair?
Daily mode seeds the random number generator from today's date plus the sport-filter letter, so every player gets the same 5 hands on the same day and can compare scores fairly. Random mode reseeds on each game for replay variety. In All-Sports mode the deal is biased toward one primary sport per hand (4–5 of 7 cards same sport) so Flush attempts are viable — otherwise uniform random across all four sports would make Flush essentially unreachable.
▶Why are some "pairs" across different years that share nothing?
Only same-year cards count as pairs in Card Poker. Two 1989 Upper Deck Griffeys = a pair. A 1989 Griffey and a 1991 Thomas do NOT — different years, even if both are famous rookies. The year rank maps to the suit-free "rank" from traditional poker. Same-player repeats trigger a separate +200 bonus layered on top of the base hand.
▶How is my final grade calculated?
Total score across 5 hands determines your grade. S: 12,000+ (requires at least one of the top-4 hand types plus consistent mid-tier play). A: 7,000–11,999. B: 3,500–6,999. C: 1,500–3,499. D: 500–1,499. F: under 500. Best score, grade, and rare-hand counts (Royal Flushes, Straight Flushes, Four of a Kinds) persist in localStorage so you can chase a lifetime Best Ever.