Re: Bored now. Invent a novel poker variant.
 

2 ideas:

Texas Hold'em variant:

3 hold cards

4 community cards dealt 2 at a time.
3 rounds of betting.
Best 5 card hand wins.

Add in the following hands:
4-in-a-row
4-to-a-flush
5-all-the-same-color

This way - - - all the women playing at our family poker
nights would actually make some hands.

Someone could run the numbers to figure out where these
new 3 hands fit in. I'm guessing somewhere between 1 pair
and 2 pair.

Re: Bored now. Invent a novel poker variant.
 

Oh, and another poker variant that was a lot of fun, 4 handed,
called "13".

The deck is dealt out, 13 cards each player.

You must created 3 hands, worst to best,
using 3 cards, 5 cards, and 5 cards.

If you mistakenly switch the order, the
out of order hands are voided and you lose your bets.

You must bet 1 2 and 3 chips ( blinds, whatever )
for your worst, second-best and best.

Extra betting may be done as follows:
1-5 extra chip bets on any hand,
but players' bets are treated as "all-in's";
in other words, if you bet 8 chips on your
best hand, i can leave my 3 bet out there,
and still win 3 chips if my hand is better.
Your 5 chip bet would be returned to you.

Re: Bored now. Invent a novel poker variant.
 

I was thinking about this thread yesterday and invented five-card badugi with a five-suit deck.

And then I decided, what the hell, let's play everything with a five suit deck.

So that's like thirty new games. Enjoy!

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Why stop at five? Eight's probably just as easy to do. At some point I will put together a Cripple Mr. Onion deck.

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Why stop at five? Eight's probably just as easy to do. At some point I will put together a Cripple Mr. Onion deck.

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Yeah, why not? At least for badugi, it's tough enough to get dealt pat with 5; it's ~54-1. Would be a lot of four-card hands mostly.

Eight would turn into a war between 5-7 card hands, which would be pretty cool too.

Re: Bored now. Invent a novel poker variant.
 

I like the idea of 7 card hands. You could have 3 pair, double trips, trips and 2 pair, quads full of trips, 6 and 7 card straights and flushes, pairs or trips with a straight or a flush, etc.

I wonder which is harder to make, trips and quads, or a 7 card straight flush? I guess the straight flush, but I'm not sure.

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And then I decided, what the hell, let's play everything with a five suit deck.


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Why stop at five? Eight's probably just as easy to do. At some point I will put together a Cripple Mr. Onion deck.

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Heh... 8-card badugi, distinguishing between suits by the card back? That might put an interesting spin on things--- you couldn't represent a pat hand unless you had four red backs and four blue backs (or whatever.)

Re: Bored now. Invent a novel poker variant.
 

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.

Re: Bored now. Invent a novel poker variant.
 

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.

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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.