Tomorrow is my second home game, and the group is open to play NLHE for most of the night, with about an hour scheduled in the middle for a new variant.
The big question is: what variant would we best introduce?
A couple people are worried about losing stacks in a variant they don't understand, so I suggested to make it a Limit game. There's only 4 of us, so I'm not worried about running out of cards in things like Stud, and we usually play microstakes (0.05/0.10, although this somehow ends up becoming 0.25/0.25 most of the time)
The big question is: what variant would we best introduce?
A couple people are worried about losing stacks in a variant they don't understand, so I suggested to make it a Limit game. There's only 4 of us, so I'm not worried about running out of cards in things like Stud, and we usually play microstakes (0.05/0.10, although this somehow ends up becoming 0.25/0.25 most of the time)
- PLO
- the most accessible, as it leans quite close to NLHE
- tracking the pot size will be new to most players
- playing hi/lo might just make it confusing
- switching between games will be a bit confusing, because of the similarities to NLHE
- 7 Card Stud
- seems like a fun option
- completely different from NLHE and thus prevents any confusion when switching games
- No idea how the pot evolves here.
- 5 Card Stud
- doesn't seem as appetizing as 7 card
- will be a bit faster paced than 7 card, which is a plus
- Razz
- will just screw people over as none of us have played lowball so far
- 5 Card Draw
- Seems easy to learn
- Relatively boring, compared to the variants with open cards