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I'm old school, , I play almost everthing...My mother and father were heavy poker players. BUT that's what you did in the 40,50, 60 and 70's. I remember them playing Rook for a penny a point. They wouldn't play unless there was something to win.,

Texas Holden or old school?
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Growing up, my family played all kinds of games. Especially poker. Mostly stud games, but also Omaha, which I'm pretty sure predates hold-em
 
Growing up my family played penny ante stud and draw games, cribbage, rummy, 6/7/10/13 point pitch. Fondest memory was finally understanding 13 point Pitch enough and being good enough to play with my dad, uncles and grandpa, around 10 years old.
 
Here's a true story.... my dad would give the kids money at Christmas back in the 60's. Then take them to the wall and play street craps with them. My sisters said the adults thought it was funny back then...Not today...
 
My Grandparents were big time gamblers period. My grandpa played everything including Tonk, 5 card draw poker (deuces wild, jacks or better), Bourré, Stud, and Pity Pat. He was a very hard gambler and picked up Texas hold ‘em late in his life. All of that was passed on to me. I learned to play poker in general around the age of 6 and by the time i was 10, I was playing .25/.50 draw poker at games where they would go. It was fine most of the time, but some people didn’t believe in playing with kids because of what they deemed as “young luck”. Lots of people didn’t even want kids around the table at the game. Superstition is real!

He used to play at night in a pool hall and he would bring me with him sometimes when I was a kid. He and the owner were good friends. It’s really weird to go home and see those places when i go back home now. They are so run down now.
 
I was raised on dealer's choice, but I admit, I lost the taste for wild card games once the hold'em boom came.

I still like a non-circus mix with forms of Omaha, Stud, and Draw games, but I haven't picked up the need to play circus games.
 
I didn't play poker until college, but I learned Cribbage from my grandparents at 14. We played 25¢/point. They were ruthless and very good players. I learned a lot from them and took that with me to college. I did very well playing Cribbage for beer money and then the gambling bug turned to poker.
 
My parents played a neighborhood stud and draw game every Saturday night -- three cent limit, three raises. Same thing among my dad and the uncles at my grandmother's house on many Sundays. And we also played at home. I had my own coffee can full of pennies from about age eight on, probably my most prized possession.

Most of the neighborhood players were FBI agents and their wives, so nobody ever bothered the game. :cool

@shorticus: I'd forgotten about tonk -- we played a lot of that in jr. hs and hs. Wasn't popular in the army, though...
 
My Grandparents were big time gamblers period. My grandpa played everything. Tonk, 5 card draw poker (deuces wild, jacks or better)!
JustinInMN said:
I was raised on dealer's choice, but I admit, I lost the taste for wild card games once the hold'em boom came.

I still like a non-circus mix with forms of Omaha, Stud, and Draw games, but I haven't picked up the need to play circus games.
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Since I’ve learned to play Hold’em and understand the fundamentals of the game, I’m not a fan of wildcard games either.
I used to love deuces wild as a kid cause the hands ran so big. It was just cool seeing someone lose their full house to 4 aces. Lol!
 
Actually, the game started in New Orleans around AD1800 with a 20-card deck (10-up) for 4 players, all cards dealt face down, no draw and just one betting round.

"Old school" by today 's terms must have been just 5-card draw poker and 5-card stud.
That's what my dad played twice a year (at Xmas and on New Year's). His best friend (a Math teacher and my Math tutor) always crushed the game.

Omaha is a casino owner's creation to make Greek/Tight Hold'em much more volatile (and lucrative to the rake collector).
From Wiki:
"Greek hold 'em combines the rules of Texas hold 'em and current day Omaha hold 'em. In professional poker player Doyle Brunson's book, Super/System, this version of poker was referred to as tight hold 'em...
The game was commonly played during the 1960s in Memphis at the Greek club...
In the late 1970s, Robert Turner introduced Greek hold 'em to Bill Boyd manager of the Golden Nugget at the time. By 1982, the two decided on four hole cards instead of two."
 
Holdem is not my first choice of card games. I find it a very weak game at best...

Most don't even understand the other games...
 
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shorticus said:
My Grandparents were big time gamblers period. My grandpa played everything including Tonk, 5 card draw poker (deuces wild, jacks or better), Bourré, Stud, and Pity Pat. He was a very hard gambler and picked up Texas hold ‘em late in his life. All of that was passed on to me. I learned to play poker in general around the age of 6 and by the time i was 10, I was playing .25/.50 draw poker at games where they would go. It was fine most of the time, but some people didn’t believe in playing with kids because of what they deemed as “young luck”. Lots of people didn’t even want kids around the table at the game. Superstition is real!

He used to play at night in a pool hall and he would bring me with him sometimes when I was a kid. He and the owner were good friends. It’s really weird to go home and see those places when i go back home now. They are so run down now.
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You’ve been playing poker since you were 6? You’d think you be better at it.
 
I learned gambling and specifically poker from my dad's side of the family.

At the poker table, we'd each dig up all the pocket change and small bills we could find in our vehicles and random "spare change" jars. Games were Five-Card Draw and Seven-Card Stud with a wide variety of wild cards and weird rules (Chicago splits the pot, Dirty Gerty, Night Baseball), plus the occasional rounds of Acey-Deucey ($0.25 or $0.50 ante depending on drunkenness level). I used to watch the game when I was a young kid and thought it seemed really fun. They finally let me join during our annual family reunion when I was 15. (Technically the family gambling age was 16, but as a group we kinda don't give too many shits about rules.)

I eventually introduced them to NLHE during the poker boom. Proper poker chips too. At first, everyone thought it was a blast and loved the novelty of having stacks of chips and going all-in, which never happened at $0.10/0.20 limit dealer's choice (if you ran out of money, you'd have to bet light). Eventually my family's Hold'em phase ended because people lost too much too fast. Partly my fault for pushing them to play at the stakes that were comfortable for me ($0.25/0.25 and $0.25/0.50). Haven't played any poker with them in a while, but I hope we'll get another game together someday.

Also played for money: cribbage, horseshoes, Parcheesi, and probably a variety of other games I wasn't around to see. Always had to be something at stake for them to play, even if it was just a couple dollars. Standard cribbage bet to this day is $2 per game, $5 last game.
 
The local holdem game is usually a $30 buy in for the football team charity. $1 for high hand. There usually 30-40 people that show up. That's seems okay for what it is. When we play regular cards it's usually everyone buys in with $40 to start and more as needed but play high and low in most games with some quick $10 holder games inbetween. That's not too bad...

Some when they want to Raise the stakes play inbetween for a $1-$3 a round. That I don't care for...

I don't like to play any wild cards except one eyed jacks...
 
Old school in Greece was also associated with a short deck.
IMHO, short-deck poker (6-up or 7-up) was crafted by cardsharpers, who introduced the game to Greece as such, returning from early 20th-century US to Greece for vacations or re-settling.
Mostly Peloponnesians (sorry @kerami , @fandridis if any of you two originate from there) :)
 
Old school here. Started playing in college (mid 90s but when I played a game with some guys at the "old folks home" where my Grandfather lived, it was all the same games :) )

I remember when holdem was introduced to the group after an exited friend came home from summer break. Everyone hated it. :ROFL: :ROFLMAO:
 
Rebelwork said:
Holdem is not my first choice of card games. I find it a very weak game at best...

Most don't even understand the other games...
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One reason I love poker is that I get to behave in ways that are usually unacceptable in society.
Favorite game is still 7 card stud, because I can punish people for not paying attention
 
My great-grandfather, Dr. Burrill Crohn (of Crohn’s Disease fame) had a weekly game at his Manhattan apartment. Story goes that in 1941, my grandmother was 9 months pregnant with my mother. She always fixed sandwiches and drinks for her dad’s game, and insisted on doing so on that Friday night, despite being overdue.

So of course, about an hour into the game she starts having pangs. She tells my great-grandfather (who was kind but pretty gruff, and tended to downplay family aches and pains), “I think the baby’s coming.“

He waves her off and says, “You’re fine, you’ve got some time yet,” and continues with the game.

Another hour or so goes by and she says, “Dad, it’s getting serious, we better go to the hospital.” (He had a car.)

Again: “Bah, these things can take all night, give it more time.” Goes back to cards.

Finally, her water broke while she was sitting in an upholstered chair in the game room, and he threw down his cards in disgust and grudgingly drove her to the hospital where my mom was born. I’m frankly surprised he didn’t insist on delivering the baby himself right there by the table so he could finish the game.
 
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