There are other poker games besides what is dealt in casinos and tournaments. The casino games are there because of their speed and simplicity in dealing. More hands equals more rake for the house.
But there are some fun, entertaining and challenging poker games you can deal in a home game, which make you have to think outside “the flop” sometimes.
The description of the following games in this series is Faldo’s opinion only. Other may like my take on a game and some will not. That’s fine. It’s all good. Here we go:
Murder
A two-card game with three substitutions – played high and low. Aces are high only, so the best high hand is AA and the best low is 3-2. The twist is a pair of 7’s scoops the entire pot.
The dealer sets up the bet amounts and the cost for each substitution, if he wants to charge for that. A fast and possibly an expensive game.
Faldo says ‘Yay’.
New York Stud
Dealt the same as Five-card Stud except a Four-flush is added to the line-up as a real hand and it beats a pair.
It can also be dealt to include Bobtail straights (four-card straights), which also beat a pair, but not a Four-flush.
Faldo says ‘Yay’.
Pip Poker
Deal it as you want - Draw or Stud - but the hand value is simply based on the size of the cards. Aces count as 1 and face cards count as 10.
Faldo says ‘Yay’.
Pistol Stud
Same as Seven or Five Stud except betting starts on the first down card.
Faldo says ‘Yay’.
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What are your thoughts on 'Death Wheel'? Please share.
Herbavor
Played in the tourney last night @ Premiere Poker out in Hartland. It is a nice enough place, people were friendly. There were 25 players but I forgot to find out what the payouts were. I wish I would have found out, it would be cool to compare them to say a Vegas tourney payout. I am not sure how big the rake is at Hartland.
I busted out in 14th and would like to discuss the hand if anyone is willing. I had AJ of spades in small blind and raised to 3x BB w/ 2 callers (BB and button). Flop came Ah5d8d and BB said all in out of turn. We had similar stacks and I figured he was on a flush draw. I decided to move all in as what I figured was a 65/35 favorite (I was about right) he called and showed KdQd. Naturally the 2d was the turn and my night was over. I was confident I was a decent favorite, but was it to early in a tourney to risk my stack as a 62/38favorite?
Herbavor - Death Wheel and Gridlock will be on the next installment.
Matchy, in order for me to know if you moved in too soon, I would need to know the blinds and the chip stacks involved. Knowing the nature of the tourney however, moving in is not a bad play regardless.
As for the BB calling all-n in out of turn, was a pure 'angle shot'. He wanted to scare everyone into folding. As you saw, even jerks get the cards sometimes.
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