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Do you like the home cash game, a tournament of peers, or do you like going to your local casino and running up the local cash games and tournaments?
 
Every game has its own place.

If I want to have a good fun night nothing beats a home game, either tourney or cash or both. Meat-ups from PCF are some of the most fun you can have!

If I want to win a bunch of cash, casinos and unlicensed card rooms are the only way to go unless your friends like to play big games and give you money.

If you want a giant tourney field you have to go to a casino.
 
shephee said:
Do you like the home cash game, a tournament of peers, or do you like going to your local casino and running up the local cash games and tournaments?
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Casino for cash games and tournaments. Primarily because I prefer playing higher stakes than what is offered locally. I have also grown tired of playing against the same faces every week in the $50 home tournament.
 
I do not like my local Casino which is at 1/2 mile from my house. So I often play home cash game and home tournaments.
What I do prefer, is playing in poker rooms in Europe every-time that I have the chance (traveling for work or for fun) The next in my list, it's the Poker Room of the King's Casino in Rozvadov, Czech Republic in June, I'll be close by for an European motorcycle meeting so I will take the chance to visit the biggest room in Euroland.
 
Home fixed-limit cash game. Unfortunately all my players prefer no-limit. And the reasons they prefer NL are ridiculous.
 
My montly home game used to be tournament with 8 players (top 3 players paid). Because players that are out have to wait for the current game to finish, we decided to change the home game to cash game.
Small stakes ($20.00 buy in for 200 chips) small blind 1 chip, big blind 2 chips.
Dealer choice between 2 card Hold'em, 4 card Omaha and 3 card Hold'em (pineapple we call it) - once the flop is turned, the players that are in the pot have to dscard one of their 3 cards. It makes for bigger hands for sure.
We play for 4 hours, chsnging decks every hour of play.
 
4SUMERZ said:
Dealer choice between 2 card Hold'em, 4 card Omaha and 3 card Hold'em (pineapple we call it) - once the flop is turned, the players that are in the pot have to dscard one of their 3 cards. It makes for bigger hands for sure.
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Officially, that's called "Crazy Pineapple". It's also one of my favorite one-ring circus games.

On the point of the OP, I prefer home games over casino games, and I am an outlier, but I prefer tournaments far more than cash games. I also prefer Holdem over any circus game. That said, the majority of meet-ups are circus cash games, and I love meet-ups, so that says a lot about the people at meet-ups! :tup:
 
Poker Zombie said:
Officially, that's called "Crazy Pineapple". It's also one of my favorite one-ring circus games.

On the point of the OP, I prefer home games over casino games, and I am an outlier, but I prefer tournaments far more than cash games. I also prefer Holdem over any circus game. That said, the majority of meet-ups are circus cash games, and I love meet-ups, so that says a lot about the people at meet-ups! :tup:
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Thanks on the official term for 3 card Hold'em. It is a favorite of mine as well. Regular Hold'em can get boring if the cards are going bad.
We just like to get together, talk sports etc. Playing poker is a reason to gather. No one gets rich or poor on the night. If one wins more than double their buy in, it's a good night.
When we play Omaha, most stay in the pot, and big hands are aplenty. Straights,flushes, are the norm, full houses, and even a few 4 of kinds in a night now an then.

It's all good
 
4SUMERZ said:
Thanks on the official term for 3 card Hold'em. It is a favorite of mine as well. Regular Hold'em can get boring if the cards are going bad.
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There are four commonly played versions of 3 card hold'em. Each is progressively wilder, but all are great games:
  • Pineapple -- 3 cards, discard one on pre-flop action
  • Crazy Pineapple -- 3 cards, discard one after flop action
  • Lazy Pineapple -- 3 cards, no discards, can play 0, 1, or 2 hole cards at showdown (never all 3)
  • Super-Hold'em -- 3 cards, no discards, can play any combination of board cards and hole cards (including all 3)
Super-Hold'em can also be played hi/lo (split pot).
 
BGinGA said:
There are four commonly played versions of 3 card hold'em. Each is progressively wilder, but all are great games:
  • Pineapple -- 3 cards, discard one on pre-flop action
  • Crazy Pineapple -- 3 cards, discard one after flop action
  • Lazy Pineapple -- 3 cards, no discards, can play 0, 1, or 2 hole cards at showdown (never all 3)
  • Super-Hold'em -- 3 cards, no discards, can play any combination of board cards and hole cards (including all 3)
Super-Hold'em can also be played hi/lo (split pot).
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I believe there is also Very Crazy Pineapple, where the card is discarded after turn action. It is the least interesting of the Pineapple family though.

In the extended Pineapple family we also have Ludicrous (which I've been enjoying more lately), Thermonuclear, Upside-down, and 4-card Crazy Ocean.
:confused
 
Oh yeah, there are a bunch of fruity variations (several of which I enjoy immensely, others, not so much).

I just listed the four most common, and those that probably won't cause his players' heads to explode. :D
 
BGinGA said:
There are four commonly played versions of 3 card hold'em. Each is progressively wilder, but all are great games:
  • Pineapple -- 3 cards, discard one on pre-flop action
  • Crazy Pineapple -- 3 cards, discard one after flop action
  • Lazy Pineapple -- 3 cards, no discards, can play 0, 1, or 2 hole cards at showdown (never all 3)
  • Super-Hold'em -- 3 cards, no discards, can play any combination of board cards and hole cards (including all 3)
Super-Hold'em can also be played hi/lo (split pot).
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Those are interesting for sure. I may have to introduce a few to the players for more options.
Thanks
 
In defense of casinos.

Raked games have their place in the poker community. They allow you to play a variety of games for stakes of your choosing against complete unknowns. At a casino, you can move to another cash table to play against a different set of opponents whenever you like. You can also come and go as you please according to your desires and whims.

People who shoot down raked games likely have little to no meaningful experience with them. Some card rooms give you free alcohol and beverages when you are playing and money on your rewards card. - $1.72 an hr. at Foxwoods. (More than what Nike workers get paid.) The rake is usually the same for $1/$2 as it is for $2/$5.

F*ck. My poker life would be a lot gloomier without casinos. Imagine what the poker world would like today if Binion's never existed. I am certain that I am not alone in my sentiments. How else would you explain their continued popularity?
 
Home cash games would always top my list but I'd LOVE to attend a meet up game but sadly there doesn't seem to be many Scottish based PCF players
 

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