Texas Reach Around Rules

Texas Reach Around was invented by Nick Henson and named by Phil Moore. The description on pagat.com was contributed by Jeffrey Able.

The game is played with a standard 52-card deck. Each player receives three personal cards and shares four face-up community cards, seven cards in all.

Each player's wild rank is the rank of the lowest card among their face-down cards (their cards in the hole). For that player, every card of that rank is wild, whether it is in their own hand or among the community cards.

1.3(a) Wild ranks are personal. A community card may be wild for one player and natural for another.

1.3(b) If a player's two lowest hole cards are a pair, that rank is wild and both cards are wild.

1.3(c) The source does not say whether an ace counts high or low when deciding the lowest hole card. The usual convention in poker is that an ace ranks high, making the 2 the lowest card, but the dealer shall announce this before the deal.

Hands rank according to the standard poker hand rankings. With wild cards, five of a kind is possible. The source does not rank it; the usual practice is that five of a kind beats a straight flush, and the dealer shall announce this before the deal.

The source does not specify antes or blinds. Any ante or other forced bet shall be agreed before the deal, as in most dealer's-choice home games.

Each player is dealt two cards face down. Each player then knows their wild rank.

The remaining cards are dealt in the order shown in the table in Article 3, with a betting round after each stage.

Each betting round begins with the player on the dealer's left and moves clockwise.

At stage 4 each player is dealt a third personal card. A player who wishes may instead buy that card face up.

3.2(a) A card dealt face down is a hole card. If it is lower than the player's current wild rank, its rank becomes the player's new wild rank, and the old wild rank becomes natural.

3.2(b) A card bought face up is not in the hole, so it can never change the player's wild rank. Buying it face up protects the wild card the player already has, at the cost of revealing the card to the table.

3.2(c) The source does not state the price of buying the card face up. The dealer shall announce it before the deal.

After the final betting round, each remaining player makes the best five-card hand from their three personal cards and the four community cards, using their own wild rank.

The highest hand wins the pot. Tied hands split the pot equally.