[shanghai_sparky]

I was at the Ho Chunk casino today, and one guy was describing a new version of hold 'em in Vegas.
I think he said it was being called Royal Hold 'em.

6 players at the table, no cards in the deck below a 10.
Three down cards and only the flop and turn.
He said that four of a kind was no guarantee of winning, and there were huge pots for every hand.

[hachkc]

That's been played at either Party or UB for quite some time now though I've never played it myself though.

[shanghai_sparky]

Tonight I think I will deal a few hands (by myself) to see what it is like.

[imperial10]

Is it like pinochle?

[Big Mike]

Originally Posted by hachkc

That's been played at either Party or UB for quite some time now though I've never played it myself though.

It is at Ultimatebet. When it first came out it was just among the regular hold'em games, but marked Royal not very noticably. People kept making posts on forums saying how they got this "great run of cards" before they realized what was up.

[jdunford]

Originally Posted by shanghai_sparky

6 players at the table, no cards in the deck below a 10.
Three down cards and only the flop and turn.
He said that four of a kind was no guarantee of winning, and there were huge pots for every hand.

Without doing any math, I'm going to speculate that straights and flushes are going to be much more common, so hands like AA and KK are less likely to win than in normal HE, while AKs and KQs will be much more valuable... until the board pairs, of course.

An Ontarian would have a distinct advantage at this game. From all our childhood years of playing Euchre (usually with a 24-card deck containing 9's and up), we're desensitized to those sorts of hands...

[nelohalo]

Is it limit or no-limit? And can you use all three of your down cards or only two?

[tastic]

LOL! That takes me back to TO! Every high school lunch hour was spent playing either Euchre or Briscola

Originally Posted by jdunford

An Ontarian would have a distinct advantage at this game. From all our childhood years of playing Euchre (usually with a 24-card deck containing 9's and up), we're desensitized to those sorts of hands...

[HarrysAllOut]

There's an asian game like that that my uncles use to play (depending how many players it would be 9s or 10s and up in the deck)where they would burn holes in the joker cards (seem to make it more dramatic) to squeeze out there hole cards, and it was played like a stud game. One of my uncles lost 10 grand on a hand when his quad kings beat quad tens, but lost to quad aces. DOH! Oh and the straight is a higher hand than a flush.

[jldecarlo]

Originally Posted by jdunford

Without doing any math, I'm going to speculate that straights and flushes are going to be much more common,

Straights yes. I think flushes will be the same or less common.

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