Re: What got you started in other forms of poker?
I played in a weekly home game with some friends in college. Soon after we started playing, I saw the movie Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. The movie starts off with a player losing a fortune in a game of 3 card brag. The movie made it look like a fun game, so I looked up the rules and introduced it into my home game.
From there we added in any games people came across. We ended up hating games like draw and 7 stud because they punished our loose play too much. We added games like black mariah, NL omaha and a game that was pretty similar to guts. I think it's natural for a group of people to get bored playing the same game over and over. I'd even end up playing euchre and cribbage with the same group of guys. It never occured to me to just play hold'em.
Edited to add: We actually started the home game because Maxim had an article about home poker. It had a bunch of different games in it, I think we started out with those as a guideline. I think that was 2001 or 2002.
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