Bored now. Invent a novel poker variant.

[MarkGritter]

Inspired by the recent question about 2-7 rankings... let's have a game which really does use the inverse of the normal 5-card ranks.

6-card "deuce to eight" lowball: Each player gets dealt 6 cards to start. Play proceeds as in triple draw lowball. At showdown, each player makes his best 5-card high hand. The lowest such hand wins the pot.

Examples:

234567 vs. AAKKQQ: The first hand makes a straight (34567) while the second is "just" aces-up (AAKKQ) so the second hand wins.

24569T vs. 223458: The first hand is a T-high (T9654) and beats a pair of deueces (22854).

A23458 vs. 234578: The first hand is an five-high straight and loses to the latter's 87543 (which is the nuts.)

This idea could be expanded to larger hands. In 10-card lowball ranked using "true inversion" like this,
2345789TQK (KQT98-high) with no flushes is the nuts.

With more cards, avoiding a flush probably becomes part of the drawing strategy. Keeping pairs to avoid a straight is probably necessary as well.

[Phat Mack]

This idea could be expanded to larger hands. In 10-card lowball ranked using "true inversion" like this,
2345789TQK (KQT98-high) with no flushes is the nuts.

With more cards, avoiding a flush probably becomes part of the drawing strategy. Keeping pairs to avoid a straight is probably necessary as well.

I like it--in fact, it may well be ingenious. This might have a future as a heads-up game. I'm putting it on my "to-do" list: TCTDSB.

[JoeDimaggio]

The best game ever. Limit "Macho". Dealt from 2 to 8 players with number of hole cards varying from 5-10. Played with two flops of 5 cards each exactly like hold em. Player with the best hand on each flop wins half the pot, if best on both scoop. One minute you can have the nuts and the next second be drawing dead.

[HonestRyan]

This is a creation of my own brain. The newest form of tournament poker to sweep the nation. HAWAIIAN HOLDEM!!! or Honest Ryan Holdem. It is made to be played in tournaments/SNGs and is played exactly like regular holdem except for one small rule change. Winner of the pot also wins the button. It will increase the importance of winning every hand, adds a big advantage to the aggr player, punishes the weak players, encourages allin steals and re-steals. and basically teaches good poker concepts.

[scpi10]

I liked Discard Draw. It's draw with one variation. That's where all cards mucked or discarded are shuffled and then dealt instead of using the deck. It's funny when you get the same 2 cards you discarded, especially when you're drunk.

[LearnedfromTV]

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This is a creation of my own brain. The newest form of tournament poker to sweep the nation. HAWAIIAN HOLDEM!!! or Honest Ryan Holdem. It is made to be played in tournaments/SNGs and is played exactly like regular holdem except for one small rule change. Winner of the pot also wins the button. It will increase the importance of winning every hand, adds a big advantage to the aggr player, punishes the weak players, encourages allin steals and re-steals. and basically teaches good poker concepts.

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I like.

The person two to the left of the big stack is totally [censored] in any big time bubble situation.

[Biggle10]

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This is a creation of my own brain. The newest form of tournament poker to sweep the nation. HAWAIIAN HOLDEM!!! or Honest Ryan Holdem. It is made to be played in tournaments/SNGs and is played exactly like regular holdem except for one small rule change. Winner of the pot also wins the button. It will increase the importance of winning every hand, adds a big advantage to the aggr player, punishes the weak players, encourages allin steals and re-steals. and basically teaches good poker concepts.

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I actually like this alot. Definitely would promote action.

[Uniqueuponhim]

Here's a game I dreamt of playing last night that actually could be a fun game. I'll name it Asspoke, since it is very similar to the game of [censored]. It could be played in two different ways:

1. Each player is dealt a fixed number of cards (I haven't decided the best number), and starting to the left of the dealer, each player plays one card into the middle. Once five cards have been played, play then continues around, but when someone plays a card, they must remove one card from the "hand" in the middle, and replace it with a card from their hand. The replacement they make *must* improve the value of the hand. Play continues until nobody can make a better hand, and the last person to play wins the pot. This can be played either as a limit game with betting rounds after the deal, after the first five cards have been played, and then every time a card is replaced, or it can be played with antes only.

2. The entire deck is dealt out, and play proceeds in the same manner as the first game, except that instead of ending the hand when the best hand is made, the cards in the middle are removed and a new "hand" is begun. Play continues until one person runs out of cards. That person wins the hand. Again, it can be antes only or there can be a round of betting after the deal and each time the cards are removed from the middle.

Sorry if I don't make any sense, I just woke up.

[Salmon]

I think any decent poker variant has to have a skill element BUT a large enough volatility that the fish return.

Here is my variant.

It's draw poker for high. One draw. Two blinds. Four betting rounds.

First betting round is pre-draw.
Second betting round is post-draw.
Third betting round is after every player simultaneously reveals two cards from their hand.
Fourth betting round is after every player simultaneously reveals one card from their hand.

Show-down, each player reveals their remaining two "hole cards".

Betting is 1/1/2/2 as in Hold 'Em.

I suppose you could play this Pot-Limit and/or as a lowball game as well.

[Salmon]

I call this variant "Flip Flop Hold 'Em".

It plays like Hold 'Em EXCEPT.

You deal out two flops.

After the post-flop betting round, you flip a coin to see which flop is "good" and which is discarded.

Buahahahahaha...