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[QUOTE="OzExorcist, post: 4084955, member: 23910"]
So... you mean adding an entire new suit (ie: another 13 cards) to the deck, right?  Assuming that's the case yes, you'd have to reassess the hand rankings to make sure they were still in line with their probability.

I'm not going to do the full math, but I'm pretty sure it would actually make flushes [I]harder[/I] to get, not easier.  Say you're four to a flush going to the river.  With a regular four-suit deck, 9 of the remaining 46 cards complete your flush, so you'd hit 19.5% of the time.  With a five-suit deck you still need one of 9 cards to complete your flush, but now there's [B]59 [/B]unseen cards.  You're only 15.2% to hit your flush in that spot.

Other hands can become harder to make too.  Say you're open ended going to the river.  With a regular deck you've got 8 outs in the remaining 46 cards, for a 17.4% chance to hit.  With a five-suit deck you've got 10 outs in the remaining 59 cards for a 16.9% chance.  That's not [I]as[/I] big of a drop, but it's still a drop.

Long story short, with a fifth suit you may or may not get extra outs (depending on what you're chasing) but you add a lot more brick cards to the deck too.
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