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Stratego related idea for improving Texas Holdem
Stratego was a very cool game. Key to strategy in Stratego was the "spy". I'll leave it for others to elaborate.
What if in texas holdem we changed just one rule: unimproved pocket deuces beat unimproved pocket aces? Or to generate even more action, unimproved pocket deuces beat any pair of aces, whether a pocket pair or something like AK with an Ace on the board? I need to think about this some more. Sounds like a potential home game. |
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Re: Stratego related idea for improving Texas Holdem
Only slightly related, but I've played NLHE where the second-best hand won. (Played cards speak.) Interesting game, especially in multi-way showdowns.
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Re: Stratego related idea for improving Texas Holdem
Hmm, I like this idea. I was just thinking the other night about how hand values would change if a straight beat a flush. But this idea has even more potential.
If your rules catch on Clark, maybe the new game can be named Deucemeister poker. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] |
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Re: Stratego related idea for improving Texas Holdem
[ QUOTE ]
What if in texas holdem we changed just one rule: unimproved pocket deuces beat unimproved pocket aces? [/ QUOTE ]It would be silly, but sounds like fun when I am drunk playing in a home game, but a bitch to remember [img]/images/graemlins/crazy.gif[/img] SO pocket dueces would only beat a pair of aces, or would it beat any pair? |
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Re: Stratego related idea for improving Texas Holdem
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Only slightly related, but I've played NLHE where the second-best hand won. (Played cards speak.) Interesting game, especially in multi-way showdowns. [/ QUOTE ] so when it's heads up, it's essentially lowball holdem? |
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Re: Stratego related idea for improving Texas Holdem
SO pocket dueces would only beat a pair of aces, or would it beat any pair?
Just a pair of aces, that's the beauty of the spy in Stratego which only beats a Marshall but loses to any other piece while the Marshall beats any other piece. I think that's right, I haven't played for years. Theoretically, this would reflect in a deuce to seven low beating only a royal flush, but this would be silly. |
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Re: Stratego related idea for improving Texas Holdem
no, high hand wins unless the high hand is a pair of aces, and the low hand is a pair of duces.
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Re: Stratego related idea for improving Texas Holdem
</font><blockquote><font class="small">In risposta di:</font><hr />
</font><blockquote><font class="small">In risposta di:</font><hr /> Only slightly related, but I've played NLHE where the second-best hand won. (Played cards speak.) Interesting game, especially in multi-way showdowns. [/ QUOTE ] so when it's heads up, it's essentially lowball holdem? [/ QUOTE ] yes. |
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Re: Stratego related idea for improving Texas Holdem
so when it's heads up, it's essentially lowball holdem?
Right: 2-7. If you move to make it heads up, and get two callers, you've got a problem. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] |
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Re: Stratego related idea for improving Texas Holdem
Stratego pwns. I have a more brute style of play than a secretive one.
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