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What the title says. I'll start.

Just like hold 'em except deal 3 cards. Everyone discards one. Carry on play like normal.

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We used to do that years back when short handed under the notion that it would kinda make the game more like full ring.

Also used to play "Stud Holdem", where each player gets two down cards and one up card, and they can use any combo of their first three cards with the community board. It was a headache.

Used to play a fair amount of Penochle Poker, basically holdem with the penochle deck, obviously very similar to the new "Royal Holdem"

Didnt event it, but highly recommend adding Vanunu to a home/dealers choice game, very fun and stimulating.

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omaha8, but you can use any combination of hole and board cards
a steel wheel splitting with a higher straigh flush was not uncommon

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So it's just Pineapple with a preflop discard rather than a postflop discard?

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From my home game. We call it Blue Steel (why, I don't know, and I was there the night it was invented)

Everyone is dealt 5 cards. Eight common cards are placed in the middle. Four in a square at the center, with the remaining four around the outside, each with one corner touching the outside corner of one of the center cards.

You must use exactly 3 from your hand *and* two cards from the board that touch. In other words, the outside cards can only be used with the one card they each touch, and the inside cards with the four they touch. The board cards are flopped 2 at a time in a predetermined order.

The game is played hi-low declare (all our games are).

Sick friggin game.

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From my home game. We call it Blue Steel (why, I don't know, and I was there the night it was invented)

Everyone is dealt 5 cards. Eight common cards are placed in the middle. Four in a square at the center, with the remaining four around the outside, each with one corner touching the outside corner of one of the center cards.

You must use exactly 3 from your hand *and* two cards from the board that touch. In other words, the outside cards can only be used with the one card they each touch, and the inside cards with the four they touch. The board cards are flopped 2 at a time in a predetermined order.

The game is played hi-low declare (all our games are).


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that is sick.

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Hold Em with two betting rounds, preflop and flop. Game is over after the flop.

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We had something like this. Everyone got 5 cards, then (N+1)*3 cards were placed faceup in the middle (N being the number of players). After a round of betting, a player could discard a card face down on the board in place of picking one up. They also had the option of following that up by discarding another card and drawing from the top of the deck, although anyone who did so then had to go at the end of subsequent betting rounds (this option was probably unecessary). This went on for a total of 3 rounds, at the end of which hands went to showdown.

It made for some interesting strategy, sort of a game theory problem. For example, if three aces were up, and someone started taking them, it became apparent they were drawing to quads. So someone had to take an A to prevent that, but the A may well have been useless to everyone else, but of course if no one took 1 (or 2) then everyone would lose.

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We had something like this. Everyone got 5 cards, then (N+1)*3 cards were placed faceup in the middle (N being the number of players). After a round of betting, a player could discard a card face down on the board in place of picking one up. They also had the option of following that up by discarding another card and drawing from the top of the deck, although anyone who did so then had to go at the end of subsequent betting rounds (this option was probably unecessary). This went on for a total of 3 rounds, at the end of which hands went to showdown.

It made for some interesting strategy, sort of a game theory problem. For example, if three aces were up, and someone started taking them, it became apparent they were drawing to quads. So someone had to take an A to prevent that, but the A may well have been useless to everyone else, but of course if no one took 1 (or 2) then everyone would lose.

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i hope its a very friendly home game. because that game has collusion written all over it

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Double pot-limit hold'em. You're allowed to bet up to 2X the pot, which can help you protect a hand on the flop against flush draws.

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This IS Pineapple.

When you discard after the flop it's Crazy Pineapple.

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Omaha/10 low hand is like 2-7

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This game is known as "fifty-five" or "Cincinnati" - the nut peddling will now commence.

Great game for rocks - if you don't start with a monster you'll rarely wind up with one.

Exception - draws to a 4 card wheel that allow for a straight flush

There is a section in a John Scarne book that deals with strange variants; trust me when I tell you it is the only worthwhile part of this book.

It's shocking what passed for "how to manuals" prior to the late 70s publication of SuperSystem, TOP, HoldemPoker, HFAP).

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NO, this is not "cincinnati."

Cincinnati is 5 card draw + Holdem community cards and rules... best 5 of your remaining ten

Although I just googled it Cincinnati poker and the first site I read discribed a game where you are initially dealt 5 hole cards then the community cards come out one at a time to 5 and best 5 of your liking win.
-there was someone in my old (2 years ago) home poker game that used to call "lame brain pete" which is cincinnati only low hole or lowest on board is wild. If you don't have quads or better, you probably should have mucked last round.

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Minnesota Hold'em:

Everyone is given six cards in their hand, then there is a flop, a turn, a river, then there are two more streets. Use any combination.

This is only good as a drinking game, where you have to finish your drink each time you lose your chips.

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From my home game. We call it Blue Steel (why, I don't know, and I was there the night it was invented)

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Zoolander. Someone must've just watched it. (Though maybe it refers to the fact that Zoolander gives you as much of a headache as this game you invented [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img])

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Pretty much every variation I've ever made up involves profound drinking.

Best was NL 5 card draw, deuces through fives, (yes, deuces through fives) wild. Folding quads was common, and getting out-quinted was a relatively common occurance.

Drink an ounce for every (arbitrary value) chip you lose in a pot, so that only the winner can escape drinking on any particular round.

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in vegas a guy sittin next to me told me about 'river of blood holdem' i duno if everyone already knows about it but its pretty fun:

holdem as usual, if the river is a red suit, then another card is dealt with another betting round, if that card (6th street) is red, then you deal 7th street, and continue until a black card comes.

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I don't claim credit for any of these, but they're fun...

Double Flop Hold'em

Just like hold'em, but you deal two boards simultaneously. You split the pot between the winners for each board.

Double Hand Hold'em

Just like hold'em, but every player gets two hands. You play the hands independently of each other, with the caveat that you can't raise yourself.

Texas F*&^'em

Just like hold'em, except after the river you deal a 6th community card. The leader on the river usually says "F&*^" when sucked out on the last card.

PP

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I'd like to play Hold'em with one change being that BOTH your cards and only three cards from the board must play like in Omaha, that should get rid of the runner runner bs

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This game is played (rarely) though I'm not sure the most common name for it.

BTW, runner runner is not eliminated by allowing only three board cards to be used; it's not even reduced.

I think you meant to refer to the situations where you flop the clear best hand only to have John Q. Imbecile make a one card flush or straight.

The problem is not that they occasionally do succeed; the problem is (or will be) that fewer and fewer of them are trying.

If we played with just ONE hole card the best hand would virtually never be run down - and there would be no games.

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How about this? Not really a poker variant – just another way to run a poker tournament.

The event is run as a knockout. The game is heads up limit hold em and the tournament is for teams of two. One player from one team plays heads up against one player from another team and, simultaneously, the other two players also play heads up. The matches last approx 250 deals and are played in isolation from each other. The hands are ‘pre-set’ (but also random – no fixed deals) with both tables playing the exact same cards. Obviously one player from one team plays one ‘set’ of cards while his partner in the other match plays the other ‘set’ of cards. Whichever team has the most money at the end of the match are the winners. The stacks are huge compared to the blind sizes so noone is in danger of busting out.

This should – just about – manage the luck factor and the team that plays better has a very good chance to win.

It is basically a variant of duplicate bridge. It could also be played as a one-off heads up challenge, e.g. Negreanu and Hansen versus Harman and Forrest (or whatever), possibly with a greater number of deals. The challenge is to find the best heads up team in the world.

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I once bought some cheap poker software that had a lot of variations of hold 'em, one of which was no-flop hold 'em - there are five community cards, but they're dealt out one at a time instead of 3-1-1. Didn't play it much, but it looked almost like playing stud with community cards.

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This IS Pineapple.

When you discard after the flop it's Crazy Pineapple.

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well, I "made" it up before I knew what pineapple was.

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Oh I just thought up a good one right now reading this thread.

Aces Can Draw Hold Em

If a player has an ace in the hole at any point in the hand a player can request a new hole card by trading in the ace to the dealer for a new one out of the deck.

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I posted about this in another thread, but it fits here too. A friend of mine made up a game he calls "Turn and Burn" which is hold 'em but the turn is wild. Fun game, especially if you're drinking.