<p>As with your first option, <strong>you keep the extra card but your hand limit goes back to normal</strong>.</p>

<p>This is covered in <a href="http://riograndegames.com/getFile.php?id=150" rel="nofollow">these rules</a> in the <strong>special cards</strong> description (which I think isn't part of the main rules book but is an extra rules reminder sheet):</p>

<blockquote>
  <p>The player can have up to <strong>4 cards in his hand</strong>. If the player upgrades the warehouse, he need not immediately reduce his hand to 3 cards.</p>
</blockquote>

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<p>In Saint Petersburg, if you own a warehouse you can hold an extra card in hand.  What happens if you have four cards in hand and then upgrade the warehouse?</p>

<ul>
<li>Do you keep the fourth card, but can't take another fourth in hand
after you've played it? </li>
<li>Do you discard one? </li>
<li>Are you just not allowed to do the upgrade?</li>
</ul>

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Saint Petersburg: What happens when you upgrade a full warehouse?
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# Saint Petersburg: What happens when you upgrade a full warehouse?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2015-06-08)

In Saint Petersburg, if you own a warehouse you can hold an extra card in hand. What happens if you have four cards in hand and then upgrade the warehouse?

* Do you keep the fourth card, but can't take another fourth in hand
  after you've played it?
* Do you discard one?
* Are you just not allowed to do the upgrade?

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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2015-06-08. Score: 4 | Accepted answer

As with your first option, **you keep the extra card but your hand limit goes back to normal**.

This is covered in [these rules](http://riograndegames.com/getFile.php?id=150) in the **special cards** description (which I think isn't part of the main rules book but is an extra rules reminder sheet):

> The player can have up to **4 cards in his hand**. If the player upgrades the warehouse, he need not immediately reduce his hand to 3 cards.


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