[BlakeC27]

Just wondering if anybody plays any weird/strange/different variate of poker in their home games?

One of my staples combines Texas Hold'em, Omaha and Draw Poker.

1. Each playing is dealt four hole cards like Omaha with a round of betting.

2. Players can then draw up to 3 new cards then another round of betting.

3. Then the game plays like Hold'em/Omaha with the flop, turn and rivers with a round of betting after each.

4. The best 5 card hand takes the pot using any combination of the 4 hole cards and 5 community cards, 9 cards to make the best hand.

And if we want to get really crazy we us a Joker as a pure wild card sometimes even both Jokers!

[Guma]

Man we play so many but the one we play most has gotten nicknamed Bon Appetite...It is 7 stud with a Hi-Lo (6432A) split roll your own first card and shuck (buy another one) one for 20 riyals once all the cards have been dealt with a declare of Hi or Lo. So there are something like 7 betting rounds...

[BlakeC27]

Originally Posted by Guma

Man we play so many but the one we play most has gotten nicknamed Bon Appetite...It is 7 stud with a Hi-Lo (6432A) split roll your own first card and shuck (buy another one) one for 20 riyals once all the cards have been dealt with a declare of Hi or Lo. So there are something like 7 betting rounds...

Cool. Another fun one is Royal Hold'em, played like regular Hold'em but the deck stripped and only played with card 10-J-Q-K-A. So you can only play with a max of 6 players.

[cpiaaq]

We play a lot of crazy ones. There's Cincinatti which gives you 5 cards, and then 5 board cards (our variation uses 5, officially its 4) to make your best hand. Your standard wild card games like Baseball follow-the-queen (4 of a kind is often a losing hand). We play one called .. lending tree ... and its like 5 card draw, but instead of a draw round there's a free for all trade fest for a 60 seconds "2 cards, anyone? please!!" pretty fun when it gets down to the last 10 seconds, everyone yelling desperately while the same 3 cards get passed around the table. One game called wall street, where it is played like 7c stud, but instead of betting/dealing you go around the table buying up cards from the center of the table (not community cards) until you have 7. There are so many....

I can recommend a book... "The little black book of poker" by John Hartley, which has a lot of good games in it for dealers choice. Screw-thy-neigbor, acey-deucey, 31, guts, 7-27, lowshit, night baseball, anaconda, and on and on.....

Beware of guts. Fear guts with a wild card. Run from the guts variation called 5-5.

[BlakeC27]

Originally Posted by cpiaaq

We play a lot of crazy ones. There's Cincinatti which gives you 5 cards, and then 5 board cards (our variation uses 5, officially its 4) to make your best hand. Your standard wild card games like Baseball follow-the-queen (4 of a kind is often a losing hand). We play one called .. lending tree ... and its like 5 card draw, but instead of a draw round there's a free for all trade fest for a 60 seconds "2 cards, anyone? please!!" pretty fun when it gets down to the last 10 seconds, everyone yelling desperately while the same 3 cards get passed around the table. One game called wall street, where it is played like 7c stud, but instead of betting/dealing you go around the table buying up cards from the center of the table (not community cards) until you have 7. There are so many....

I can recommend a book... "The little black book of poker" by John Hartley, which has a lot of good games in it for dealers choice. Screw-thy-neigbor, acey-deucey, 31, guts, 7-27, lowshit, night baseball, anaconda, and on and on.....

Beware of guts. Fear guts with a wild card. Run from the guts variation called 5-5.

We play Cincinatti too but the draw version:

1. 5 cards dealt to each player with a round of betting.

2. Players draw with another round of betting.

3. Then the community cards one-by-one with a round of betting after each card.

4. Best 5 cards win out of the 10 total cards, 5 in your hand and 5 on the board.

We tend to play it as limit and again sometimes with one or two Jokers as pure wild cards.

[Quads]

As crazy as we get is 5 card Omaha.

No wild, no jokers, no following anyone, and deuces are just that.... deuces.

[BlakeC27]

Originally Posted by Quads

As crazy as we get is 5 card Omaha.

No wild, no jokers, no following anyone, and deuces are just that.... deuces.

Live a little.

[Devilboy]

Ultra-crazy pineapple.

You are dealt 4 cards and you must discard one after the flop betting and one more after the turn bets.

Wrap-around straights are good (e.g. QKA23), 3 pair beats 2 pair, 2 sets beats a boat, and we also allow the rainbow flush (5 different suits).

[BlakeC27]

Originally Posted by Devilboy

Ultra-crazy pineapple.

You are dealt 4 cards and you must discard one after the flop betting and one more after the turn bets.

Wrap-around straights are good (e.g. QKA23), 3 pair beats 2 pair, 2 sets beats a boat, and we also allow the rainbow flush (5 different suits).

Nice. Not quite brave enough for the exotic hands.

[cpiaaq]

5 different suits?