Costanza Poker

Inverted Hold'em — where the worst hand wins

Hold 'Em, But Worst Hand Wins

Weirdest Game Ever.

Finally, a game where bad luck is the strategy. Press Play to get started.

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Quick Start: Lowest high card beats everything. Pairs, trips, straights, flushes — all progressively worse.

COSTANZA

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You

2,000

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In Costanza Poker, everything is the opposite.
The worst hand in regular poker is the best hand here.

High Card — The ultimate winner. Nothing fits together.
One Pair — Second best. Just two matching cards.
Two Pair
Three of a Kind
Straight — A-2-3-4-5 is the best straight; T-J-Q-K-A is the worst.
Flush
Full House
Four of a Kind
Straight Flush — Almost always fatal. A-2-3-4-5 suited is the one version you can live with.
Royal Flush — T-J-Q-K-A suited. You made it. You should be proud. Now please, just go low.

Heads-up (2 players) Texas Hold'em rules — but rankings are inverted.
Hold'em mode: Each player gets 2 hole cards. Use any combination of hole cards and board to make your best 5-card hand.
Omaha mode: Each player gets 4 hole cards. You must use exactly 2 of your hole cards and exactly 3 board cards.
Five community cards are dealt (Flop, Turn, River).
Best 5-card hand wins — but “best” means closest to High Card.
Blinds start at 10 / 20. Starting stacks are 2,000.
Match plays until one player runs out of chips.

Within the same hand type, lower card values win.
High card / Flush: lowest top card wins — 7-high beats Q-high, 2-high beats Ace-high.
Pairs / Trips / Quads: lowest rank wins — pair of 2s beats pair of Aces.
Straights: Ace plays low (as 1) — A-2-3-4-5 is the best straight because it's the lowest. T-J-Q-K-A is the worst.
Outside of straights, Ace is always high (14) — so it's the worst card to have in your high-card hand or flush.

Avoid connecting cards — straights and flushes hurt you.
Mixed suits, non-sequential ranks are your best friends.
Suited connectors (7♠8♠) are trash — fold them.
Offsuit, disconnected cards (2♣ 9♦) are gold.
The Hand panel bottom-right shows your current hand rank and percentile in real time.

Blinds increase on a timer in Normal, Turbo, and Hyper modes. Friendly mode keeps blinds fixed at Level 1 forever.

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BB-ante (= Big Blind) applies at every level when Ante is enabled.

Level	Small Blind	Big Blind	Ante
1	10	20	20
2	15	30	30
3	20	40	40
4	25	50	50
5	30	60	60
6	40	80	80
7	50	100	100
8	60	120	120
9	75	150	150
10	100	200	200
11	125	250	250
12	150	300	300
13	200	400	400
14	250	500	500
15	300	600	600
16	400	800	800
17	500	1,000	1,000
18	600	1,200	1,200
19	800	1,600	1,600
20	1,000	2,000	2,000