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We play a couple Omaha variations that seem to attract alot of action. They are played H/L with a chip declare at the end. The first is trips Omaha, everyone gets 4 cards and can only use 2 to make the best five card hand, using one of the 5 card rows. Then there are 3 rows of cards put face down in the middle each of the 3 rows consists of a pile of 3 cards then (2) single card rows:
1 1 1
1 1 1
3 3 3
There is a betting round, then then you flip the first row (all 9 cards) betting round then the last 2 rows with a betting round in between each.

Another one we play is called Arnie (dont know if these guys made up this game or if it is referred to as that normally). Its another omaha type game, same deal everyone gets 4 and must use 2, the deal is 3 rows of 3 cards then 1 row of 2. The 3 card rows are turned with a betting round in between followed by the last row of 2. Players must use 2 from their hand, 2 from one of the rows of 3 (horizontally not vertically) then one from the last 2. We play this hi-lo with a chip declare, it lays out like this:
1 1 1
1 1 1 1
1 1 1 1

And one more for good measure.
This game is called Hi-Lo Buy a card, its a 7 card game, each player is dealt 2 cards face down then have the option to keep or pay to pass the card that is dealt face up. There is usually a progression for passing the cost goes up each round but is at the discretion of the dealer .25-.25-.50-$1 or .50-.50-$1-$1 are the norm. There are 4 rounds of up cards and the last card is dealt down. So the first player to the right of the dealer is offered a card face up, if he wants to pass it it costs a quarter to the pot, if passed the card is then offered to the next person, this continues until someone either keeps the card or it goes all the way around and is buried. Once the card is either kept or buried all the passers are given the next top card in the deck. So for instance lets say that the first person is offered the 7c as the first card and opts to pass it he puts a quarter in the pot and the next person is offered the 7c, if he keeps it the top card on the deck is then given to the person who passed and then the next card is offered to the third person in the rotation. The action rotates between rounds, so on the second go round the person two seats to the left of the dealer gets the first option on the next card.


BMWguy we play a game like you mentioned above with 3 cards up and you can buy one of them. We call it Walmart, the card furthest from the stack is .25, the second card is .50 and the card closest to the stack of cards is $1, and if you take a down card from the stack its free (but we have recently started taxing the free card progressively as well free,.25,.50,$1). First person gets the option of what card they want, if they take one of the up cards the two remaining are then slid to the end and the next up card is flipped from the top of the deck and is put in the $1 slot.