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If you think five-card Omaha is wild, try mixing it with tic-tac-toe, especially as JV suggests (he calls it "Bughouse" in the book, and adds in the option to use all five cards in your hand instead of making your hand from two in your hand and three on board; I call this game "Tic-Tac-Dough," in honor of one of my favorite game shows)
Used to play a split variant of this called Timbuk (no idea why). You get 4 cards in your hand, create a cross of down cards like the picture below
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Bet, flip one of the 2 card stacks, . . . the 3 card stack in the center is flipped last and you now have 4 cards in your hand + 7 cards on the board either up/down or left/right to make your best hi card hand (rarely less then a boat) and your best timbuk. A timbuk is the most parts to a str8 flush. For example, 234s is beat by 456s which is beat by 2345s which is beat by 789Ts etc. A str8 flush can easily scoop the whole pot. Basically, not a lot of strategy other then playing connected cards but seems to keep a lot of people invovled.
We play a version of this but we play it must use 3 in the hand, 2 on the board. We call it Dan's game as he is the one that usually calls it. It get's kind of crazy both high and low as boats are totally hidden and figuring out if your low is good because it is harder to have 3 very low cards in the hand.
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