Posted Tue May 09, 2006 8:19 pm GMT by LeafsFan1122
At my home games (when we play FL cash,) we try to experiment with different types of unique games such as Chicago Blackhawk, Deuces Wild, Vanunu, and Blind Mans Bluff. Just wondering if you guys play any wacky, intresting games you could tell me about.
Thanks 8)
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Posted Tue May 09, 2006 8:30 pm GMT by Cricket_Fire
Race Wars
No money involved, just a fun game for a few minutes after everyone's bust out. It's like the game war, except each suit wars too (if 2 people drop clubs, you take the lower of the 2, put that number of cards face down, then 1 face up. Highest card wins).
Posted Tue May 09, 2006 8:34 pm GMT by LeafsFan1122
| Cricket_Fire wrote: | | No money involved, |
I'm sure we could incoorperate money in there!
Posted Tue May 09, 2006 8:37 pm GMT by Cricket_Fire
| LeafsFan1122 wrote: | | Cricket_Fire wrote: | | No money involved, |
I'm sure we could incoorperate money in there! |
Probably, but with the way some of the wars go (quadrouple wars lol), the game can be over in 3 hands 
Posted Tue May 09, 2006 9:07 pm GMT by weirdofreek
we play 3's & 9's alot.
Simple game, lets say 4 players, every one antes .25 then is dealt 3 cards. 3's and 9's are wild, no straights or flushes. After the deal every one decideds if their in or out. If they are in then they discard and draw however many cards they want up to 3. then the show down. Three cards are dealt from the top of the deck and this hand is live. Whoever wins takes the pot. Every one still in the hand must match the pot (4 playersX.25=1.00) and we play again. this keeps going until only 1 player has the balls to stay i and must beat 2 hands drawn from the deck. then the pot clears and we start over. at the start of every hand everyone gets a hand as long as they made the .25 ante. ties are broken by who ever has the most natural hand (ie. AA9 beats 33A).
Posted Wed May 10, 2006 10:54 am GMT by kingetje
blind man's bluff... is that the game where you hold your hole cards on your forehead so your oppponents can see your cards but you cant?... thats hilarious!
Posted Wed May 10, 2006 11:16 am GMT by cayouche
We used to play Chicago. They play it at one point in Rounders.
One time, they decided to play 5-card draw, 2 decks, with lowest card in hand being wild... First hand, I get dealt K-8-8-8-8, giving me 5 kings. They never played it again...
Posted Wed May 10, 2006 12:50 pm GMT by BeerWench13
We play The Queen and What Follows a.k.a. Follow the Queen. It's dealt like 7-stud but Q's are always wild and when a Q is revealed, the upcard that follows that Q is wild until another Q surfaces, then the next upcard is wild. If the Q is the last card dealt up, then nothing is wild but Q's. We also have the "bunghole burner" rule which means that if you see the final card of the hand and lose, you have to put half of the total pot back into the pot for the start of the next game. This does not exclude you from putting in an ante for the next round.
We've also played acey-deucey. This game is VERY costly though. We had a pot over $1500 one night with only 5 players.
There is another game called Shopping. Everyone antes $.50 and gets dealt 2 cards. From there, 2 cards from the top of the deck are laid face up in the order they came off. The first card is free if you want to take it and the second moves to its place and another card revealed from the top of the deck. If you don't want or can't use the first card, then you can take the second. However, the second card costs $1. If you don't want or can't use either of these cards, you can take the top card from the deck. The top card on the deck (which is not shown) is $2. This goes around with everyone drawing one of the three cards. Whoever makes the best 5-card hand wins the pot.
Posted Wed May 10, 2006 1:02 pm GMT by golddog
Lowmaha: Omaha 8-b, but you quit putting board cards out as soon as there's a possible low. Could be three, has been as many as 11.
tic-tac-toemaha: Omaha 8-b, but you put nine cards out in a square. Reveal like this:
x O x O O x O O O
(pre-flop bet) --> O x x --> bet --> O x O --> bet --> O O O --> last betting
x x O x O O O O O
use two from your hand, any tic-tac-toe row to make your hand. (hint: bet the diagonal, it's coming!)
Irwin: Omaha 8-b, but with two boards, revealed normally. The trick is, the board which shows the higher hand is use with two from your hand to go high, the other, low (no mininum low, of course), so the "high" board might change on the turn and river.
Chowaha: Omaha 8-b, but a really obtuse board. Nine cards in a square, two above of that, one above of that (a pyramid with three rows of three on the bottom). Betting, then the nine in the square are revealed. Betting, then the two. Betting, then the one, then final betting. The catch is, there are only four possible boards: down the left and right, or the four middle cards (one and middle column of three) plus either one of the two-row.
Of course, each of these has "Howdy Doody" variants: Kings wild going low, threes wiild going high.
Player's club: high hand/low points: deal each player five cards and put two rows of five in front of the dealer. One row is designated 'bad', one 'good'. After each round of betting, one 'good' and one 'bad' card are revealed. Anything matching the 'bad' row must be discarded (even if they're in the 'good' row, even turned up later). The 'good' row is used as community to make a high hand at the end; low points splits.
Elvis: it can't be described, it must be experienced.
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Posted Wed May 10, 2006 1:41 pm GMT by Skribbles
Guts
Posts
Indian No-Peak
Posted Wed May 10, 2006 1:42 pm GMT by Dave B
We played a game that was 7 card stud w/ the high spade winning 1/2. But, the queen of spades killed the hand and you started over. If you had the queen in your hand as a down card, you could show it at any time and start the hand over.
So, what happens is someone gets the ace of spades down and bets the heck out of the pot, all have to call since if you fold once you are out forever, then by the 4th round of betting that queen comes out and your hands are worthless.
When the 7th card is dealt, you have the option to take it up or down. An up queen automatically kills the hand, a down queen gives that player the option.
Posted Wed May 10, 2006 2:14 pm GMT by UrAteUp
| BeerWench13 wrote: | | We play The Queen and What Follows a.k.a. Follow the Queen. |
We play this game but under the name follow the whore...
Play this one at home games as well. You play 3 will get you 2 or 4 will get you 3 Skribbles?
We also play knock. This is a game where you get three cards. The object of the game is to get 3 suited cards with a face value total of 31. You draw and discard cards when it's your turn. Face cards are 10 and Ace is worth 11. All other cards are worht face value. You do not have to get 31 to knock. You can knock on the table with less then 31 but if your low then your out of the hand. All remaining players ante another $1. Last one standing takes the pot.
Another interesting game we play is pass the trash or crap on your neighbor. Everyone antes $3. Each player is delt a single card. Highest card is K and lowest is A. Each person decides if they want to keep their card or pass it to the person to their left. They then take that persons card. Anyone getting a K can flip it up and block the other player from taking their card. Lowest person puts in a $1. When you loose all 3 $1s your out of the game. Last man standing takes the pot.
Posted Wed May 10, 2006 2:29 pm GMT by Sean_in_NJ
| Dave B wrote: | | We played a game that was 7 card stud w/ the high spade winning 1/2. But, the queen of spades killed the hand and you started over. If you had the queen in your hand as a down card, you could show it at any time and start the hand over. |
We call it "Murder" and the suit is determined arbitrarily before the deal. Only differences are the Q of the suit in question is wild when in the hole, and the 7th card is always down.
We also play "low hole" which is 7CS with your low card in the hole being wild. In this game, you have the option to pay an extra bet to get your river card up. You'd want to do this if, for example, you had T TTAxx as your first 6 cards.
"Night Baseball" also rears its ugly head from time to time.
Posted Wed May 10, 2006 2:33 pm GMT by golddog
For the Follow-the-Queen fans, here's an interesting variation:
When dealing the last card, ask the player on the recipient's left if they would like to buy the card up (trying to give him a Q and themselves a wild, of course). If they don't want to, the recipient also has the option of buying his own card up, but why would you, unless you just bought a Q up.
(The person to the dealer's left can buy the dealer's card up to try to kill the wilds if they choose).
Posted Wed May 10, 2006 3:43 pm GMT by UrAteUp
| Sean_in_NJ wrote: |
We also play "low hole" which is 7CS with your low card in the hole being wild. In this game, you have the option to pay an extra bet to get your river card up. You'd want to do this if, for example, you had T TTAxx as your first 6 cards.
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I remember playing this one in home games before as well. One of my favorite variations for people who want a wild card... myself I hate all wild cards... :x 
Posted Wed May 10, 2006 4:06 pm GMT by jimmer
I don't know what it's called, but we sometimes play hold'em with Tens through to Aces only.
It puts you in a really tricky postion, because all of a sudden top pairs are common.
Posted Wed May 10, 2006 4:07 pm GMT by Johny
Royal Hold 'em? UB has it.
Posted Wed May 10, 2006 6:21 pm GMT by weirdofreek
we play baseball. its a no look 7 stud game. Each player is dealt 7 face down. first to act flips their card, then a round of betting. Next person keeps flipping his cards til he can beat whats showing,round of betting. Keeps going til the cards of whoever is still in the hand are all face up. Red 4 is an automatic fold black 4 allows you to buy an 8th card face down that you can look at.
Posted Wed May 10, 2006 6:28 pm GMT by Iron Butt
How about Texas Stud - played like hold'em until the river, then everyone still in for the river deal gets their own card face down like in Stud. A pretty good game really, people like to stay in for that last hole card, it gives you one last chance to bluff or suck out LOL and it eliminates those occasional situations where the river screws up the hand like putting a straight on the board or whatever.
Posted Wed May 10, 2006 7:50 pm GMT by Sean_in_NJ
| weirdofreek wrote: | | we play baseball. its a no look 7 stud game. Each player is dealt 7 face down. first to act flips their card, then a round of betting. Next person keeps flipping his cards til he can beat whats showing,round of betting. Keeps going til the cards of whoever is still in the hand are all face up. Red 4 is an automatic fold black 4 allows you to buy an 8th card face down that you can look at. |
That's basically "Night Baseball," except you can buy an extra card on every 4 (no auto folds) and you have to pay for every wildcard that's up (3's or 9's).
One particularly bad hand, I was first to act and drew an A. By time it got back to me, I would've had to beat quad K and there were 6 of 8 wildcards already out. I folded.
I had a natural Royal in my hand left to be drawn.
I hate wildcard games.
Posted Wed May 10, 2006 9:44 pm GMT by saper88aa
Acey Ducey. :D
Simply classic game, i am a crazy player, and i win millions( or more than i left with)
Posted Thu May 11, 2006 12:24 am GMT by tame_deuces
Hmm, I have to admit we've kinda stopped playing some of those crazy games. I do miss them though.
Wild Widow - Basically a 5-stud variant, you flip out a card and its 3 remainders in the deck will be your jokers.
5 Card Draw w/bug - The bug is a joker that can only be used to complete straights/flushes...its actually kind of fun.
EBay poker - A pretty twisted variant of 5 card draw where 3-5 cards are placed faceup on the table, and you start bidding on the first auctionstyle, when someone buys a card they pick it up and put down one from their hand...bidding for that card then starts...if nobody wants...go to the next card. Warning...play with nickle&dimes and HUUUGE stacks only...this one gets ugly.
Posted Thu May 11, 2006 6:14 am GMT by snoogins47
In-Between/Red-Dog/Acey-Deucey was the bane of my existence in high school. Like seriously. We played nickel-dime-quarter, buy in for $5 a piece, and somehow we decided that we wouldn't put a cap on that game.
Seriously, in a $5 buy in poker game, I vividly remember one of us writing an IOU for ~$100 in In Between.
Pimp guts was brutal too... I think somebody mentioned Guts here, but Pimp guts is even worse. Check this:
It's pot-matching, so everybody antes, and gets three cards. Trick: one of them (we play that the dealer arbitrarily picks one of the rounds) is face up.
Now, anybody who has a door card that pairs with somebody else's, and, the person with the lowest door card showing, are forced to "hold," or "play" or whatever you want to call it... they have to go to showdown. Then, high hand wins, and everybody else who showed down has to match the pot.
So, it's Guts, but, with a twist that makes it much easier to build ludicrous pots, and likes to screw people over more frequently. We'd usually put a cap on the "burn," that is, if the pot is over the max, you only have to throw the 'max burn' into the pot. Still brutal.
Also worth mentioning: I don't know how common the different Guts variants are... but I have only played any form of Guts with a "simultaneous declare" so to speak... usually we'd just hold our cards, count to three, and anybody who folded would drop them, anybody who wanted to stay in would hang on. It's almost hard to imagine the positional advantage to a non-simultaneous declare.
These games pretty much ended as we got more into Hold'em. I think In Between specifically ended when four or five of the crew (I wasn't there, sadly) sat down to play a game of In Between, and a short time later, they lost.
They just lost. The game won. They just split up the money like it was before the game, and pretty much said "We must never let this happen again."
My favorite game for sure is 8-Cardmaha, but I've only played it a handful of times. I invented, and named it.
Omaha-8 rules, best played pot limit/no-limit of course, except everybody gets 8 cards instead of 4. Doesn't work so well with >5 players. It's a laugh riot, though. An edge of your seat thrill-ride, if you will. The perfect poker game.
EDIT: Re: Royal Hold'em. This game is absolutely awesome against bad players, and absolutely awful against people who know what they're doing. And people figure it out pretty quickly.
Posted Thu May 11, 2006 5:17 pm GMT by JackKingOff
there is this game called indian guts but it isnt very pokerlike... its basically a variation on Blind man's bluff... u get 1 card and place it on ur forehead... highest card wins...
Posted Fri May 12, 2006 9:09 am GMT by MasterShake
We used to play a game called Chicago Roll Your Own. It was basically Chicago with the high down spade taking half the pot, but your three cards were dealt face down and you got to pick your door card.
Posted Fri May 12, 2006 9:32 am GMT by golddog
A variation on the guts declaration we do is to let each player turn up one card of their choosing from the deal. (Nobody can look at their entire hand--if you do, you're automatically declared in).
The high card has to decide without looking at the other cards if they're in or out. If they fold, it goes next-high (left of the dealer), etc. Of course, once you fold pre-declaration, you're out for good.
Once someone declares in, the remaining contestants look at their hands and declare in or out. The game ends when the oriignal declarer is the only one to go in.
Unless, of course, we're playing with a ghost, which rocks. Everyone playing still has to beat the ghost, or they all match the pot. Usually we'll play five-card guts with a four-card ghost.
Losers match the pot up to a max (we max at $1/player that night).
Posted Fri May 12, 2006 9:51 am GMT by UrAteUp
We always play guts with a ghost hand. Keeps it interesting and makes sure there is always someone to play against.
Posted Fri May 12, 2006 9:52 am GMT by Sean_in_NJ
| UrAteUp wrote: | | We always play guts with a ghost hand. Keeps it interesting and makes sure there is always someone to play against. |
Always preferable to playing with yourself. 
Posted Fri May 12, 2006 9:53 am GMT by BeerWench13
| MasterShake wrote: | | We used to play a game called Chicago Roll Your Own. It was basically Chicago with the high down spade taking half the pot, but your three cards were dealt face down and you got to pick your door card. |
I've played this. This game can get crazy.
We've played "night baseball" as you guys called it, but have always called it 7-card no peek.
Last week they incorporated Crazy Pineapple Hi/Lo into the game. I couldn't make the game last week, and, from what I heard it was a good thing. Two guys were in for a grand before the end of the night.
Another we played was a variation on THE. We sort of made it up and coined it "No Limit Forge Hold Em" but somehow it got nicknamed "Forge Madness." Every player was dealt one card. A round of betting like normal. Then the flop was dealt. A round of betting, and then the turn was dealt. A round of betting, then every player got another card down, a round of betting, followed by the river and the final round of betting. This generated some HUGE pots because it was rare that anyone folded prior to getting their second hole card.
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