Weird cash games

Boomaholic · Tweet this Post! #1 08-07-2008, 12:02 PM

Played .05/.10 Dealers Choice cash game last night, first for my group. I have no idea if some of these are just made up games my friends thought of, but i'll describe them b/c while crazy and wierd we had alot of fun last night (i walked out fairly positive after going out early in the tournament).

Pass The Trash?? -- Limit game. ante, seven card hand, bet round, pass two cards to the player to left. bet round, one card to right, bet round, show down best 5 card hand

Superhold'em-- played pot limit with this, 3 card hand instead of 2 play any variation of cards via hole and community

Stud/hold'em-- delt 2 cards down, 1 card up. w/ community board. play any variation of cards.

one of the crazier hands was we played hold'em but with two boards... so preflop play. put out two flops, one bet round, two turns, one bet round, two rivers, one bet round.. basically more than likly a chop pot game, b/c of two boards but my J7 caught the best with two pair on the turn and OE w/ flush draw on the turn via the other board, which i hit on the river scooping me the entire pot.

we also played Pineapple and basic HORSE games too, 5 draw and 5 draw 2-7 lowball. Have a feeling DC will become more commen as the weeks roll on. i need some more games to teach people lol gimmie some fun ones if you got em.

wafflestomper · Tweet this Post! #2 08-07-2008, 12:10 PM

I don't know what this is called either, but it is a mixture of Stud & Hold Em with 2 boards as well.

One board (designated before the hand begins) is the good one, and the other one is the bad one.

Everyone is dealt 4 or 5 cards (I can't recall). You deal the flop on both boards. If a card on the "bad board" matches on of the cards in your hand, you have to throw away the card in your hand. Continue with turn and river. You then play whatever cards are left in your hand with the cards from the good board.

Kind of a luck shoot, but can be fun.

If someone knows the name of this (or can clarify anything I messed up) please let us know. I played it one night 9 months ago, so I could be wrong about a few things...

abby99 · Tweet this Post! #3 08-07-2008, 12:22 PM

I've played Omaha (high only) with two boards, which I first encountered in a mixed game at Harrah's LV. Betting, two flops, betting, two turns, betting, two rivers, betting. The mixed game was played limit for everything, but this also works well as a pot-limit or no-limit game.

The usual Omaha rules apply, including playing two from the hand and three from the board. You can play different hole cards on each of the two boards. Most pots were split, but quite a few were scooped. Everybody liked this game, and at one point we stopped the rotation and agreed to play this for about an hour before breaking the game.

luckychick · Tweet this Post! #4 08-07-2008, 01:04 PM

Pass-the-trash is also known as Anaconda, and has been a favourite in a couple of home games I played in.

By far the strangest game I have played was made up by statisticians, called "Least Squares Difference"; I described it in this thread. There are some other poker variants in there too.

Another fun stud one is called "Roll your own". Five card stud, but first three cards are dealt down, and you choose which one to show. Your down card is wild. Each subsequent card is also dealt down, and each time you get to chose which one to roll over.

SILKS POKER ROOM · Tweet this Post! #5 08-07-2008, 01:44 PM

$20.00 buy in...the guys like to play 7stud hi low declare.
betting $1.00 max 3 raise max per rd.
If your in after the 6th card and you loose you have to MATCH THE POT! (you can fold at this point without matching the pot-highest hand showing starts the betting)
after the 7th card is dealt and the betting round..you then chip declare
1 chip in hand -LOW 2 chips in hand-HIGH 3 chips in hand BOTH WAYS.
They play the best low is A-2-3-4-6.
The catch is you don't need a low hand to "declare" low. If your the only player declaring one way you win half the pot plus 1/2 of the other pots the loosing players have to match.
Avg pot is around $40.00 but they ***** when I play $2-$4-$6-$8 HOLD 'EM.

Another game (mostly luck) is called "cow screw"
played as best 5 cards. All cards dealt down. 7 total cards.
Each player is dealt 4 cards. A rd of betting. Then $1.00 to get your next card. A rd of betting...then $1.00 to get you next card. Then after your 7th card a round of betting $1.50 max. Then the dealer flips over top card on deck this is the "splitter card". So if the dealer flip a 4 of clubs then the guy with the lowest club in his hand gets half the pot and the best high hand gets the other half.
I refuse to play this game anymore since I started A-A-2-2 with half of the possible splitters and a strong 2 pair and didn't get once cent!

BUT my favorite DC wild card game is called 'NUTS" deal like 3 down cards to everyone. It's roll your own with low hold wild and all like it. Also 2's 7's and one eyed jacks are wild. The queen of spades is wild if she is kept down. YOU CAN ROLL THE QUEEN OF SPADES AT ANY TIME AND KILL THE HAND. High spade in the hole gets 1/2 the pot. So you could keep your queen of spades hidden (also wild) until the 7th card is dealt and if you don't have 5 aces at that point it's a good idea to kill it. The remainig players re-ante and you deal again.

chipandachair · Tweet this Post! #6 08-07-2008, 02:05 PM

Pass the trash sounds like fun. Good thing the limits were low.

pokerplayingpisces · Tweet this Post! #7 08-07-2008, 02:14 PM

Those type of games can be lots of fun. More social, If I get lucky I might win a few bucks. My friends and I have started doing a dealer's choice game like this after our league game on Sunday night. Lots of fun, a good way of breaking the routine of playing Hold'em all the time. You have to try the Omaha with two boards, you get lots of crazy action with that game.

rowlin · Tweet this Post! #8 08-07-2008, 02:51 PM

Tic-tac-to'maha!

Stevo · Tweet this Post! #9 08-07-2008, 04:18 PM

Pass the trash, screw your neighbor and anaconda. We usually play with 3 rounds of passing. Get cards, bet. Pass 3. Bet. Pass 2. Bet. Pass 1. Fold, er, bet. Game is played hi/lo with chip declare at the end.

My friends don't love it, but it makes for huge pots when folks think their nut flush is going to win.

We play a bunch of stuff, some of it made up.

6 card stud - 1 down, 4 up, 1 down with a "buy one at the end" for $.50 for an up card and $1 for a down or something like that is also a great game.

We also play a lot of 7 stud hi/lo, roll your own with chip declare at the end. That's a nice game. Basically you get 3 down and everyone flips one up after looking. Get another down. Flip one up and so on to the final street which stays down. Then everyone frantically looks at everyone's up cards and tries to figure out which way to go - God I love the guys I play with...

omar · Tweet this Post! #10 08-07-2008, 10:21 PM

Juarez
Basically hi-lo hold 'em with a declare. Deal 3 down cards to each player. Each player discards one. PF bet. Flop, bet, turn, bet, river, bet. No limit or limit, whatever you like. Declare with zero, 1 or 2 chips (trying to win both the hi & lo - have to win both outright -straights & flushes don't count against you for the low).