New game - 3-card poker Dramaha (1 Viewer)

[snooptodd]

We play a bunch of Dramaha variants in my home game, which has 6 regulars, but we've recently added a new player to the group which makes those games a lot harder to play. In an attempt to keep the Dramaha games going, we invented (we think -- certainly may have been played elsewhere) 3-Card Poker Dramaha.

Game play is exaclty the same as Dramaha, except you only get dealt 3 cards instead of 5, and the person with the best 3-card poker hand in the hole wins half the pot. (Reminder that straights beat a flush in 3-card poker, and 3 of a kind is second only to a straight flush.)

We've played it twice (we play a full dealer rotation for the same game, and then a new person picks the next game) and it's likely to become a regular addition to the game. Don't like it quite as much as regular Dramaha or (my personal favorite) 49 Dramaha, but it's a great option if you're playing with more than 6 players!

 

[Jimulacrum]

My group plays a lot of Dramaha variants (and Scarney/Georgie variants) like this, when the base game would be impractical because we have more than 6 players.

One is called Dramahold'em, which means the board hand plays according to Hold'em rules (use any hole cards and any board cards) instead of Omaha. When we play this with a high hand in the hole but fewer than 5 cards, we just say there's no such thing as pat hands, rather than using 3 Card Poker ranking rules like you do. We also play it sometimes with low points in the hole taking half the pot (like in Scarney), which IMO is a little more interesting. Anyway, it allows for us to play with a lot more players, which is nice.

Scarney (which we call Georgie), same kind of deal. Just play with 3 hole cards if we have too many players; you can play up to 12-handed this way. We even play it with 1 or 2 hole cards too, if people are feeling like it. Usually we play "Dirty" Georgie with so few hole cards, so your hand is dead if you lose all cards to the board, instead of it giving you a nut low of 0.

 

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