Allowable home game methods

imperial10 · #1 (**permalink**) 08-13-2007, 07:09 PM

At my home we follow the Daniel Negreanu poker philosophy of friendly poker. No hard feelings and no bad blood. You loose you take it like a man and have a beer. With that principle, my buddies and I have adopted some allowable methods of playing. Such as if you're dealing you can give the cards to a player that is not in the hand to deal or lay out the community cards face down after dealing the cards out so that you can play correctly and not have to give any tells while dealing.

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with this style we have to be a little careful that the mucked cards don't interrupt the play and get mixed with the community cards. I check each deck before play, checking for marked cards... honest poker here. Doing this will also cure the lazy dealer and have the cards ready for action.

Another thing we do is, when it comes to heads up and a player goes all in, the dealer will ask " hey you want the COOL WAY" and if they say yes then we arrange the cards like they do on WSOP and reveal the cards until the turn card. We wash the mucked cards and the rest of the deck so that it doesn't expose the mucked cards by folded players and then box them, then the dealer picks up the mucked cards with the rest of the deck....exposes the cards by facing the deck up and one by one starts eliminating the outs the person needs to win. On one side the dealer lays cards that are needed to win thus showing the outs the person needs to win. The other side are the cards that are unnecessary.

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Eventually all the outs and cards are eliminated and then we turn the river card and in an extreme but good for tv case this might happen....

It's a fun way to add some substance to head up play.

Quads · #2 (**permalink**) 08-13-2007, 07:40 PM

By doing that (dealing the board out, face down) you are essentially negating the use of the burn cards, so you can drop that as well.

The reason (one of) for the burn card is to cover the card coming off the shoe. Should this card have the slightest mark in it and I can identify this, I know the next card. That is an edge. Dominating edge.

Dealing the board cards allows you the same thing. Let along, (as you mentioned) it's extremely careless in protecting the integrity of the hand against other mucked cards, exposed cards, etc.

I couldn't read much past "cool way".
Integrity of the hand, other player's mucked cards, drama factor, etc.
I guess it's simply a matter of preference and how you want to run your game.

imperial10 · #3 (**permalink**) 08-13-2007, 07:53 PM

I absolutley understand about the integrity of the cards and so do my home game players. I'm just saying it's allowable.

Quads · #4 (**permalink**) 08-13-2007, 09:09 PM

Fair enough-
Each home game has its own 'thing'.

dad604 · #5 (**permalink**) 08-14-2007, 12:44 AM

Whatever you guys like is fine but the cool way seems to waste a lot of time.

ipgyst · #6 (**permalink**) 08-14-2007, 01:53 AM

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Originally Posted by dad604

Whatever you guys like is fine but the cool way seems to waste a lot of time.

I was going to say the same thing, but you beat me to it.

Do you guys run it twice or anything else cool? Among friends, your philosophy of poker is the only way to play poker.