Bored now. Invent a novel poker variant.

[BBQbowser]

2-7 Triple Draw variant

The rules are exactly the same EXCEPT after the second draw there is a community card put out for players to use. Six cards total to make the best five card hand. Mmmm.. more action !

2-7 Triple Draw Hi/Lo variant

Players are dealt 5 cards each face down. After the players SECOND discard they are dealt the number discarded plus one additional card (6 cards total now.) Players are allowed to use three cards for the high (AAA being the best) and three for the low (A23) being the best).

The best hand is AAA23x.

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I'm still stumping for Swingo. I know you said all previously-devised games suck, but nobody's heard of Swingo, and it's awesome.

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Nice, sounds like a really rocky game too [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

Here are 2 new variants from the DPC homegame that I came up with (this is the same home game that brought us Thermonuclear Pineapple, invented by Bounty Hunter and unleashed on the world by Lottery Larry).

1. Lomaha -- Played much like O/8 but only for low. If none of the remaining players can make a qualifying low on the river then the board is mucked and a new flop, turn, river are dealt with bets upped as a half kill. A maximum of 3 boards are dealt, and the pot chopped if no player(s) can claim the pot by that point. If the board make a low impossible, then after the next betting round is completed the board is mucked and play resumes with a new flop at the increased limits.

2. Draw Pai-Gow -- A variant on Pai-Gow poker (ok, not real poker but still fun). Each player is allowed to draw one card (or stand pat) in turn, starting on the dealer's left, before setting their hands. Best when played with a bug (tho maddening when you have 3 pr and the bug and have to pitch it to draw for a full house!)

[SteelWheel]

Binglaha is great. I play it in a home game, for crazy stakes (everyone antes $25, except for the dealer who antes $50). We don't usually have dice around, so we take the top card off the other deck to determine whether we're playing hi or hi/lo--black for hi/lo, red for hi only.

Another game we play is an oldie, suggested in one of Mike Caro's old books from the 70's--"Tic-Tac-Toe Holdem"--except we play it as Tic Tac Toe Omaha/8 (with declare). Players are dealt four hole cards, and the community cards are laid out in a 3X3 grid. First betting round is based on your starting cards, and the flipping of the two "middle" cards--but not the center one. Top row is flipped for the second round. Bottom row for the third one. And the all important "center square" is flipped for the fourth and final round.

[MarkGritter]

I prefer Lomaha played without the qualifier. It's a less trivial game--- low-only Omaha with the 8 qualifier is all about having ace-deuce with a low backup.

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I prefer Lomaha played without the qualifier. It's a less trivial game--- low-only Omaha with the 8 qualifier is all about having ace-deuce with a low backup.

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Damn, scooped again! Thanks for the link tho Mark. The best part of the description:

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This variant is probably only seen in drunken home games.

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[btmagnetw]

each player is dealt 3 cards, one face up.
after the first round of betting, each player passes one card to his left.
if he passed the face up card, he gets 2 more cards and discards another 2 cards.
at the point of this discard, any player may yell BENJAMIN HOLLOWS and if so, randomly exchanges one of his down cards with a discard.
in the event that this card pairs his hand, he turns over those two and each player antes X amount where X is the number on the paired cards times the big bilnd.
next comes the flop. 3 cards.
if the flop is monotone, each player discards all cards of that color and receives new cards for each discard.
at this point, all players must announce their hand, based on the following rules:
if the cards are all numbers, they must tell the truth.
if they are all face cards, they must lie.
if they are one face card and two numbers, they must pretend to lie but tell the truth under their breath.
if vice versa, they must pretend to tell the truth about 2 of their cards and must lie about the third one while intentially "accidentally" turning it over.
each player then ante's 10x the pot, for no reason.
the final 2 cards are then dealt.
the best 5 card hand wins the pot. unless the pot is an odd number. then its lowball. if the pot is a prime number, its H/L.

[SteelWheel]

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2-7 Triple Draw Hi/Lo variant

Players are dealt 5 cards each face down. After the players SECOND discard they are dealt the number discarded plus one additional card (6 cards total now.) Players are allowed to use three cards for the high (AAA being the best) and three for the low (A23) being the best).

The best hand is AAA23x

[/ QUOTE ] The hi/lo one sounds like a blast..have to try that sometime. Is the low hand played same as regular A-5 TD (i.e., straights and flushes don't count against you), or Badugi style (a "wheel" has to be A23 of three different suits)?

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2-7 Triple Draw Hi/Lo variant

Players are dealt 5 cards each face down. After the players SECOND discard they are dealt the number discarded plus one additional card (6 cards total now.) Players are allowed to use three cards for the high (AAA being the best) and three for the low (A23) being the best).

The best hand is AAA23x

[/ QUOTE ] The hi/lo one sounds like a blast..have to try that sometime. Is the low hand played same as regular A-5 TD (i.e., straights and flushes don't count against you), or Badugi style (a "wheel" has to be A23 of three different suits)?

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I would think it's best played flushes do not count against since low is only 3 cards, A-3. I've never played it though, I just made it up lol. Perhaps a better version may be to just deal 6 cards from the beginning. I'm determined to think of a great TD hi/lo so if anyone can do better or refine please do so.

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2-7 Triple Draw Hi/Lo variant

Players are dealt 5 cards each face down. After the players SECOND discard they are dealt the number discarded plus one additional card (6 cards total now.) Players are allowed to use three cards for the high (AAA being the best) and three for the low (A23) being the best).

The best hand is AAA23x

[/ QUOTE ] The hi/lo one sounds like a blast..have to try that sometime. Is the low hand played same as regular A-5 TD (i.e., straights and flushes don't count against you), or Badugi style (a "wheel" has to be A23 of three different suits)?

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I would think it's best played flushes do not count against since low is only 3 cards, A-3. I've never played it though, I just made it up lol. Perhaps a better version may be to just deal 6 cards from the beginning. I'm determined to think of a great TD hi/lo so if anyone can do better or refine please do so.

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Maybe a 4 card low instead of 3 card low would be more balanced against the 3 card high.

AAA234, thoughts ?

Wait, no one else cares ? Yea I know it's stupid [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]

[monroe]

Here is one from my never-been-play-tested (except for dealing hands to myself) file. Its novelty lies in the ranking system (much like badugi).

Vienna: It's a triple-draw game where each player is dealt five cards to start. The goal is to make the worst flush possible (aces are low). If no player has a flush, the worst four-flush wins, and so on. Offsuit cards don't play. I believe (but haven't bothered to confirm) that it has a "reverse bunching" trait.

In holdem, if it is folded to you on the SB, there is a "reasonable" strategy that your opponents could be following that would make it slighty more likely than random that the BB is holding an ace. In Vienna, when it is folded to you on the SB, I believe there is a "reasonable" strategy that your opponents could be following that would make it less likely that the BB has a playable hand. This is interesting if the BB knows you know this.

Here's another one: At the end of our Chinese Poker sessions, we sometimes play a few hands of some variant. One we have been playing lately is CP high, with the front being won by the highest point total there. So, AAA in front (33) is the nuts, but junk like KJT or QJT is actually solid. Usually 30 points in front will give you a shot, sometimes 29.