Favorite poker game that’s not so popular (1 Viewer)

PLO High High is a split pot game. One half of the pot goes to the normal best high omaha hand (using exactly two hole cards). For the second half of the pot, you have to use the other two hole cards in your hand for the second high hand. It's fun because hands like AAAA are actually playable ;)
In this game, is every player required to make their absolute best hand using their 1st 2 cards so that their is certainty as to which other 2 cards are used to make the 2nd high hand? And unlike SOHE where the holdem hand and Omaha hand need to be determined pre-flop, this 2 and 2 split isn’t determined until show down?
 
I used to love Badugi, then I lost a ton to a guy that would call/draw every street, and hit a better Badugi on the final draw.

Every.
Single.
Time.

I know I was the favorite, but that was just a sick night. Haven't had the same love for the game since.
 
What’s your favorite non NLH or PLO poker game?
Does PLO8 count? ;) If not, I'd say Tahoe Pitch and Roll or 2-7 SD (DD) or TD. We played 2-7 Double Draw No-Limit in Chicago and I thought it played better than SD actually. More action.

Which poker game do you think should/will get more popular but it’s not currently
PLO8. One can see some O8 spread at casinos but hardly Pot Limit.

I don’t know why 2-7 single draw is not more widely played.
Because it is not an action game. First, you gotta have a good starting hand. So you won't see 6 players going to the draw, like you'll see in Omaha going to the flop. Also, it's only a two street bet game. So compared to other games played at the same stake, 2-7 produces very small pots. I like it a lot though, don't get me wrong.
 
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In this game, is every player required to make their absolute best hand using their 1st 2 cards so that their is certainty as to which other 2 cards are used to make the 2nd high hand? And unlike SOHE where the holdem hand and Omaha hand need to be determined pre-flop, this 2 and 2 split isn’t determined until show down?
Yes. If my best PLO hand beats your best PLO hand, and my other two cards make a hand that beats your other 2 cards hand, the I scoop. You can't mix up the cards to try to make a better hand.
 
I used to love Badugi, then I lost a ton to a guy that would call/draw every street, and hit a better Badugi on the final draw.

Every.
Single.
Time.

I know I was the favorite, but that was just a sick night. Haven't had the same love for the game since.
Breaking a jack high badugi and spiking a 5 high badugi on the last draw of a massive inflated multi-way pot that I had no business being in is one of my greatest badugi achievements.
 
Ohama gets alot more action ... Is that what you want?
So I realize after reading the rest of the thread that “ohama” was probably a typo. But given the degens on this board, including me, I was thinking it must be some new offshoot of Omaha and couldn’t wait for details. :ROFL: :ROFLMAO:
 
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So I realize after reading the rest of the thread that “ohama” was probably a typo. But given the degens on this board, including me, I was thinking it must be some new offshoot of Omaha and couldn’t wait for details. :ROFL: :ROFLMAO:
Ohama is a Omaha variant, where if you scoop 6 consecutive pots, you get affordable health care.
 
My favorites are Five Card Draw and Five Card Stud. I like the classics.

When I was a kid I played a LOT of Blind Baseball. For years afterwards I thought it was a made-up game in my family, since no one else seemed to have heard of it and I could never find descriptions of it (until the internet became more prolific).
 
Criss cross , cross cross middle, forty four, forty four bitch. Jacks or better, jacks or better trips to win. Plain old 5 card draw
 
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Gotta look it up
The rules are convoluted but it’s a main stay at one home game group I play with.

We play limit but doing it pot limit makes it way more interesting.
 
Dakota: Seven card stud, ace-five high-low split with declare, low hole wild for high, option to buy the river up, roll your own all day long.

Decoding all that:
  • Seven card stud - Hopefully you know what this means
  • Ace-five - When contesting for the low hand, aces are low, and straights and flushes don't count against you
  • High-low split - The high hand and the low hand split the pot. Unlike games such as PLO8 there is no qualifier for the low hand; however, see "declare" below.
  • With declare - Immediately prior to the showdown, all players declare whether they are contesting for the high hand, the low hand, or both the high and low hands. The usual way to do this is for everyone to secretly place zero, one, or two poker chips in their hand and then reveal them simultaneously: zero for low, one for high, two for both. Anyone declaring "both" must win (or, in some house rules, win or tie) both high and low in order to win anything.
  • Low hole wild for high - The smallest hole card in your hand is wild (for you, but not for anyone else), as is any other card matching its rank, whether down or up. Wild cards are only used for the high hand; they count as their normal face value for the low hand.
  • Option to buy the river up - Before being dealt a final card, each player is given the option to have it dealt face-down as usual, or at the cost of one bet to have it dealt face-up, so as to avoid the possibility of it becoming the lowest hole card and ruining the hand by replacing the current wild card. If the face-up option is chosen, the player pays one bet (the minimum bet for that street, typically a big bet in fixed-limit poker) into the pot; this payment is not a bet and is not matched by the other players.
  • Roll your own - At the start of the hand, players are dealt three cards face down and choose one of them to reveal; the chosen upcards are revealed simultaneously.
  • All day long - This same procedure of choosing which card to roll face-up is repeated on every street. The dealer deals each player's new card face-down, and each player selects one of their three face-down cards to reveal as that street's new upcard. On the last street, this is only done by players who choose the option to buy the river up; otherwise, all three cards stay face-down.
It sounds complicated but it's pretty simple in practice. Compared to straight stud there's some additional interesting tactical decisions to make on every street, plus at the showdown. Since everyone has at least one wild card in their hand, people tend to overvalue their draws and stay in longer than they should. Choosing which card to roll face-up gives you opportunities to disguise your hand. And using declare forces you to do some risk evaluation to decide whether to make a safe play by contesting for the direction you've got a solid winner in, or to be risky and try for the entire pot hoping that either no one goes for the other half or that your weaker half holds up anyway.
 
I don’t know why 2-7 single draw is not more widely played
It’s pretty much the same game as 5 card draw, which I think was probably the most popular game in the world, and now nobody plays it.
My theory is that most people have been learning poker by playing NLHE, for a couple of decades. I think when people learn poker with community card flop games, a game with like 2-7 or 5 card draw seems somewhere between terrifying and absurd.
 
It’s pretty much the same game as 5 card draw, which I think was probably the most popular game in the world, and now nobody plays it.
My theory is that most people have been learning poker by playing NLHE, for a couple of decades. I think when people learn poker with community card flop games, a game with like 2-7 or 5 card draw seems somewhere between terrifying and absurd.
As a Boy Scout, I learned poker for pretzels/snacks playing 5-card draw, which I agree is basically 2-7. I was pretty good, but I was a gamer playing against kids and a scoutmaster that probably played like there was no real stakes.

I was a little stunned this week watching a DNegs video where he explains "the strategy" to 2-7, which is to stand pat and raise. The very "strategy" I used at age 11.

So playing it today (to me) is either absurd (too low of stakes) or terrifying (too high of stakes). I doubt there could be a "just right" amount for more than an orbit.
 
Do you have a link handy to that video?
It was one of this year's WSOP Vlogs, nad not a straight dedicated strategy video.

I'm a D'Negs fan, but even I had to quit watching the vlog. I can only take so much gratuitous self-promotion, and bemoaning of bad beats. The advertisements for shirts and home-delivered meals, despite him saying "I'm not getting paid a million dollars to say this". Sorry bud, when your vlog says 'order with the promo code DNEGS20', I'm betting an awful lot that you are getting paid.

I can't point to which one he discusses 2-7 though, but if you cross referenced the WSOP schedule with hid vlogs, you'll see it. I however, cannot recommend it, since it was literally the same stuff I knew at 11.
 
It was one of this year's WSOP Vlogs, nad not a straight dedicated strategy video.

I'm a D'Negs fan, but even I had to quit watching the vlog. I can only take so much gratuitous self-promotion, and bemoaning of bad beats. The advertisements for shirts and home-delivered meals, despite him saying "I'm not getting paid a million dollars to say this". Sorry bud, when your vlog says 'order with the promo code DNEGS20', I'm betting an awful lot that you are getting paid.

I can't point to which one he discusses 2-7 though, but if you cross referenced the WSOP schedule with hid vlogs, you'll see it. I however, cannot recommend it, since it was literally the same stuff I knew at 11.
I watch it daily, because there’s plenty of good footage from inside the Rio, at the tables, which is cool. And sometimes there are good post-hand strategy discussions.

As for all the crap about his dogs, his fantasy hockey team, his workouts, his vegan meals blah blah blah, blah blah blah, I couldn’t care less. But it’s pretty easy to scroll past it, on YouTube.

Edit: there are also some cool off the cuff discussion comments. Like during a break in the dealer’s choice. He had previously mentioned that at his table, he might have an advantage by calling NLHE. Then, later, when his stack was bigger and others were shorter, he realized he could switch to PLHE, to keep the shorter stacks from jamming. It was just a very cool aside thought - I don’t know if you would ever occur to me to call pot limit Holdem. I’m kinda surprised they even have a plaque for that.
 
I watch it daily, because there’s plenty of good footage from inside the Rio, at the tables, which is cool. And sometimes there are good post-hand strategy discussions.

As for all the crap about his dogs, his fantasy hockey team, his workouts, his vegan meals blah blah blah, blah blah blah, I couldn’t care less. But it’s pretty easy to scroll past it, on YouTube.

Edit: there are also some cool off the cuff discussion comments. Like during a break in the dealer’s choice. He had previously mentioned that at his table, he might have an advantage by calling NLHE. Then, later, when his stack was bigger and others were shorter, he realized he could switch to PLHE, to keep the shorter stacks from jamming. It was just a very cool aside thought - I don’t know if you would ever occur to me to call pot limit Holdem. I’m kinda surprised they even have a plaque for that.
I thought the reason for PLHE was so you could call it before break, and get a head-start to the restrooms or the food lines without missing much.
 
I like stud, Chicago particularly, but my degen regs don't like it cause it's like "watching paint dry." Also I've been playing with n00bs lately and I still think stud will be too complicated for them. A few more poker nights and I'll try to rotate it in :)
 

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