12-13-2001, 04:38 PM
This game involves usually between 5-7 players. This is the only game being played so dealer antes $5. Dealer deals 3 cards to each player. Dealer asks ptl(utg)if he wants to draw 1 card or stay pat. Dealer asks each player in order. The ptl declares whether he's Going or passes. Let's say he utg goes for this example. The next player can either go him or pass. Let's say he passes. The next player passes. The 4th player goes and switches cards not showing his hand but passing them along the table. Whoever loses has to pay that person the pot. Say the 4th player wins and then the 5th player goes the utg player and loses. He pays utg the pot amount. It goes around until it gets to the dealer and if nobody else goes another card is dealt. The same procedure goes whether you want to stay pat or draw one card. If for some reason nobody goes and the dealer also passes you deal anther card and continue on until you either get to 5 cards with draws all the way or one person goes and nobody challenges him and wins the pot. After the 5th card round is complete everyone ante's another $1 and you can round it off to $10 or play it's actual value to go.
Although you start out small I've seen pots of $50 to go!! Strategy is to know the players and what hands they will play with. Obviously pos'n is key!! Order of what beats what on each round has to be understood before playing. For instance you can declare straights over flushes on third & fourth street but not on 5th or just 3rd street. The dealer controls that, but on third the order is trips, strfl, (flu, str), pair, hc. Unless the dealer declares str ov flushes. There's quite a bit of sandbagging by the early players to entice the late players to go. If the dealer goes everyone has a shot to go against him because it goes around again. The rule is whoever goes say the 5th person goes it goes around again to the 4th player. There are some more rules but this is basically how it is played.
Although you start out small I've seen pots of $50 to go!! Strategy is to know the players and what hands they will play with. Obviously pos'n is key!! Order of what beats what on each round has to be understood before playing. For instance you can declare straights over flushes on third & fourth street but not on 5th or just 3rd street. The dealer controls that, but on third the order is trips, strfl, (flu, str), pair, hc. Unless the dealer declares str ov flushes. There's quite a bit of sandbagging by the early players to entice the late players to go. If the dealer goes everyone has a shot to go against him because it goes around again. The rule is whoever goes say the 5th person goes it goes around again to the 4th player. There are some more rules but this is basically how it is played.