Dealer's Choice

[Gone Forever]

Kinda curious to hear if and what poker variations everybody is playing at their respective home games.

One of the games I regularly play at is a Dealer's Choice game. While we mostly play NL Holdem and Pot Limit Omaha Hi/Lo, around 3 deals a round are some of these games:

KINGS AND WEENIES (Also known as Kings and Little) - 5 Draw with Kings AND the lowest card in your hand WILD. 5 of a kind is the best possible hand as with any wildcard game.

5 DRAW JACKS OR BETTER - Must have at least a pair of Jacks to open the betting. If nobody can open, we re-ante and redeal and repeat until somebody can open.

HIGH SPADE IN THE HOLE (Also known as "Chicago".) - 7 Stud. High spade in your hole cards splits half the pot. Dealer can also call this low spade, high diamond, high heart, low heart, etc.

CONTAGIOUS - 7 Stud with Suited Connectors wild. I.E. 5 [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] 6 [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] both become whatever you need them to be. This applies to your hand only.

FOLLOW THE QUEEN - 7 card game. While it can be played in 7 stud format, 90% of the time it's dealt as "No Peek". What this means is you get all 7 of your cards FACE DOWN. Left of dealer goes first. He flips a card and decides wether to check or bet. The next person must then beat that person's board. I.E. If first person flips an Ace, the next person must keep flipping cards until they can beat Ace high. Once that happens he then checks or bets. We have also implimented a Match Pot Rule if you look at your cards. This is evil. I almost forgot! The most important part! If a Queen is flipped up the very next card is wild. If another Queen is flipped up later in the hand, the next card flipped becomes wild and the original wildcard returns to normal value.

OMAHA 2ND CARD ON THE FLOP IS WILD - This is pretty self explainitory.

RAZZ - 7 Stud. Lowest possible hand wins. 54321 is the best possible hand.

PINEAPPLE - Hold em variant. 3 cards dealt preflop to each person. There's a round of betting and then whoever is still in discards 1 card before the flop.

CRAZY PINEAPPLE - Same as Pineapple, but, the 1 card discard happens on the flop.

Anybody playing anything "crazy" too?

This game has been pretty good to me. I normally cash out with 2-3 buyins profit in a 2-3 hour period. Losing is VERY rare.

G O N E F O R E V E R