[smoore]

Right now we play a micro spread limit holdem at my home game with blinds of 0.10/0.20 and a max bet/raise of 0.50. My table is oval, with a dealer tray (don't ever do that to your home poker table but I had illusions of dealing pro) and we have a dedicated dealer. I'm going to be going to a round table so we can pass the deal efficiently. When I do this, I will be changing to a dealer's choice, casino games only format. I will also be changing the limits and holdem/omaha will go to a standard .50/1 structured game.

When we do dealers choice someone will want to deal draw, someone else 7stud or razz (I don't know why he likes that damn game). How do others handle blinds/antes in this situation? Should we just post blinds, even when it's draw or stud? How do you handle action and the bring in with stud if you use a blind? Is there even a bring in or do you go in order like holdem? I know that draw is pretty easy to play with blinds, but I can't get my head around stud.

Since 7stud has more betting rounds and I'm one of the best stud players in my group, can't I gain a serious advantage by playing stud for my choice? I'm thinking this because people just chase for crap; the pots are huge whenever we play stud. Would it be out of line to reduce the betting to .25/50 for stud? Would we then increase to something like 0.75/1.50 for draw?

I'm also considering using a dealer type puck to mark who's "choice" it is, then we would play a whole orbit of thier game with the corresponding blind or ante structure, anyone else do this?

I will only allow "casino" games to be played at this table, no follow the queen, no chicago, no "crazy omaha" (don't ask, basically it's any of the nine cards to make a five card hand). Do I allow crazy pineapple? It's a crap game, but they do play it online in "casinos". Hell, I may do it just to keep the wild-card types happy.