Short Deck (1 Viewer)

[djmarc]

Final table of the Triton HKD 500K Short Deck tournament is live in 5 minutes on the Triton twitch channel:

9 players left including Dwan, Jason Koon and Gabe Patgorski (this guy is action and a fun player to watch).

Triton Hold'em: 36 cards (2’s thru 5’s removed). Flush beats a full house. Ace acts as high (TJQKA) and low (A6789) for making straight (so acts as A and as 5). No blinds, but ante only and double ante on the button.

 

[ni9n3r]

I'm running a short-deck low stakes (.25/.50¢) cash game in Orlando tomorrow. It's our first go at it, so I'll post some feedback about how it went afterwards.

 

[Schmendr1ck]

I'm running a short-deck low stakes (.25/.50¢) cash game in Orlando tomorrow. It's our first go at it, so I'll post some feedback about how it went afterwards.

 

[navels]

how'd it go?

 

[ni9n3r]

how'd it go?

It went pretty well, I'd say. No major misunderstandings and almost universal enjoyment of the the game. One of our younger players came a little late and was buying in short and getting crushed, so he eventually asked to change the game back to regular NLHE, so we did for a couple of orbits and till he went complete budto and left, then we changed it back

 

[BukNaked36]

The correct rank of hands is here:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six-plus_hold_'em

Does the math actually line up with this, or is simply a rule change?

 

[glom]

Does the math actually line up with this, or is simply a rule change?

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The math lines up. If you play the game you see it too. It’s very clear the probabilities change.

 

[Schmendr1ck]

The math lines up. If you play the game you see it too. It’s very clear the probabilities change.

Yep, we hardly saw any flushes all night long. I remember two, maybe three over about 5.5 hours of mostly short-deck.

Of course, I remember having several flush draws that I probably pushed a bit too hard given the lower number of outs.

 

[ni9n3r]

Yep, we hardly saw any flushes all night long. I remember two, maybe three over about 5.5 hours of mostly short-deck.

Of course, I remember having several flush draws that I probably pushed a bit too hard given the lower number of outs.

My favorite flush was the final one, where I scooped the 3 way short-deck blind Omaha flip!

 

[Schmendr1ck]

My favorite flush was the final one, where I scooped the 3 way short-deck blind Omaha flip!

I liked your post but I didn't like the results of that flip.

 

[navels]

The Poker Masters series on PokerGO right now features a short-deck $10K tournament (event #4). There is also a lot of buzz/discussion on the Poker Central podcast this week (Eps 112 and 113).

 

[davin]

@MykL316

 

[fish72s]

I heard about short-deck a few weeks ago and almost started a thread about it.
The game is not that old and I wonder if someone stole my idea?
A few years ago I posted a thread (here or on CT, I can't remember) about a game played
with the deuces removed from the deck with the idea being to 'slightly' adjust the odds
for drawing hands.
Basically the idea was poo-pooed partially because it was seen as taboo to alter the deck
by removing cards. But I guess its ok to remove the 3, 4 and 5 too.
I never played short-deck. It might be too much variance for my taste. I think a game with
just the 2's and 3's out would be fun.

 

[ni9n3r]

The Poker Masters series on PokerGO right now features a short-deck $10K tournament (event #4). There is also a lot of buzz/discussion on the Poker Central podcast this week (Eps 112 and 113).

***SPOILER***
Yeah, ***Ike Haxton*** took it down having never played the game before!

 

[navels]

Short Deck makes it to PokerStars:

https://www.pokerstarsschool.com/article/Rules-and-Hand-Rankings-in-6plus-Holdem

It's the variant with

3 of a kind < straight
full house < flush

 

[Vice]

I'm a traditionalist so I wouldn't like it.

 

[codeman00]

I have played it and personally don’t like a game that doesn’t use a traditional deck of cards with traditional hand rankings. Those are my hangups with short deck.