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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.