Strange home game rules you have run into? (5 Viewers)

[Chris Manzoni]

Played in a very lucrative home game back in the day, 1999-2005 that had the most bizarre concept for fixed limit Hold-Em and Omaha - action would always begin with the player who last raised on the previous street, the button was basically ignored on the turn and river.

 

[WedgeRock]

a .25/.50 NL Holdem game where there can only be a total of 3 raises during a betting round and the raises can only be the SB amount (.25)

Most hands ended up with all the players still in the hand

Sounds like you should be playing $6 bomb pots that go right to the river... (50¢ x 3 raises x 4 streets = $6)

 

[Mangatang]

Now, I burn under the button, so it seems un-natural not to have it.

Ah... I like that. You've converted me to a button person now. Anyone have a nice dealer button they want to sell?

 

[WedgeRock]

Watch my stack disappear even faster!

 

[davin]

That's exactly the rule at every casino, cardroom, and most homes games I've played.

I’ve had a player complete a 12$ straddle not knowing someone had raised to 48$ he argued to take his money back but we all agree on table it stays in, he completes the 48$ and scoops a huge pot lol with stupid cards

 

[Mr Winberg]

I remember playing a strange version of fixed limit at my old job during the poker boom. I think they must have misunderstood something, the blinds were 2/4, and you could bet/raise with either 2 or 4 on every street!

I tried explaining fixed limit to them, and we tried it once but never again because they thought it was "too complicated"...

 

[Coyote]

Now, I burn under the button, so it seems un-natural not to have it.

I use the button on the deck to keep it into one piece/place when not holding it (particularly useful with ultra high-end, slippery, petroleum by-product cards).

 

[Jeff]

Friend took me to a game where it turns out they played all kinds of wild card games and didn’t play table stakes. I found it out about the stakes when i raised a guy to all in his $30 stack with $100 in front of me ... and he dug into his pocket to re-raise me for more than I had, and if I didn’t want to lose the hand I had to call the whole raise. It was more than I had on me, and they said I could go IOU. If I wanted to raise more, I could. I pointed out the concept of table stakes. It was an insane conversation. I folded and got the hell out of there...

 

[CaseAce]

Watch my stack disappear even faster!

You mean smell your stack disappear.

 

[Shaggy]

Played in a very lucrative home game back in the day, 1999-2005 that had the most bizarre concept for fixed limit Hold-Em and Omaha - action would always begin with the player who last raised on the previous street, the button was basically ignored on the turn and river.

Sounds like some bastardization of the process in stud where the best hand on the current street starts the action.

 

[Sunshine]

At my house, anyone who wins with trip sixes, whether they actually got to showdown or not, has to say "Hail Satan". I did it once and the reaction of a fellow player (a preacher) amused me so much that it became mandatory. He's probably extra-anxious to fill up when he's got trip sixes, just to avoid it!

 

[mike32]

We have an unwritten rule that when the deal gets to @mike32, he holds the button until a dealer down the rail notices and asks for the button...

I used to be in the camp of no need for a DB in a self-dealt game... Then I started playing In a self-dealt game that used them... Initially, I was a button magnet after dealing, but got used to passing it with the deck. Now, I burn under the button, so it seems un-natural not to have it.

I need to learn this. Somehow the button ends up on the rail itself in front of me and I don’t even remember putting it there.
As far as crazy rules we have some of our own going back to the pre nlhe Stone Age of poker. In in-between (acey deucey) if you get 6-9 in that order it’s an automatic $5 winner. If you get 10-4 in that order it invokes the 10-4 good buddy rule where you get to pick any “buddy” at the table and they have to bet $5 on getting between the 10 and 4. Don’t get me started on 33-66-99 right @Boother36 !

 

[Highli99]

I mess with new players and tell them check raises are binding. Usually when I am heads up with them and after have I declared “check raise” as my action. I inform them they “have to bet” and that results in some funny interactions. I only do this on very small pots and never as an angle. The player is told they do any action very quickly. Whatever they do I am folding anyway.

 

[Rhodeman77]

Friend took me to a game where it turns out they played all kinds of wild card games and didn’t play table stakes. I found it out about the stakes when i raised a guy to all in his $30 stack with $100 in front of me ... and he dug into his pocket to re-raise me for more than I had, and if I didn’t want to lose the hand I had to call the whole raise. It was more than I had on me, and they said I could go IOU. If I wanted to raise more, I could. I pointed out the concept of table stakes. It was an insane conversation. I folded and got the hell out of there...

That is nuts. What is the point of even having chip on the table then?

 

[BarrieJ3]

Don’t get me started on 33-66-99 right @Boother36 !

Skeet, Skeet, Skeet!

 

[BonScot]

@BonScot are still doing this at your game? I guess it might help the drunks know where they are.

Fuck yeah. I’ll admit to being so drunk that I’ve been the dealer, holding a deck of cards with a dealer button in front of me and then asking the table who’s dealing
and that’s happened more than once...

 

[Highli99]

Fuck yeah. I’ll admit to be so drunk that I’ve been dealing, holding a deck of cards with a dealer button in front of me and then asking the table who’s dealing
and that’s happened more than once...

have you ever been to Timonium, Maryland. Also is your name Stuart? If so I’ve definitely played with you.

 

[sheikh617]

Friend took me to a game where it turns out they played all kinds of wild card games and didn’t play table stakes. I found it out about the stakes when i raised a guy to all in his $30 stack with $100 in front of me ... and he dug into his pocket to re-raise me for more than I had, and if I didn’t want to lose the hand I had to call the whole raise. It was more than I had on me, and they said I could go IOU. If I wanted to raise more, I could. I pointed out the concept of table stakes. It was an insane conversation. I folded and got the hell out of there...

This has to be the dumbest thing I've ever seen. Some rando can just keep 1k in his pocket and decide to raise to such in a game where the blinds were 1/2 or smaller I'm guessing? Seems super fishy to me. Glad you got up and left.

 

[BonScot]

have you ever been to Timonium, Maryland. Also is your name Stuart? If so I’ve definitely played with you.

I can’t remember

 

[Chris Manzoni]

Sounds like some bastardization of the process in stud where the best hand on the current street starts the action.

That is PRECISELY what it was - as we also played a lot of stud games.

 

[shorticus]

No one wants want to get hit in the head with a mango. The mango bounty just helps dull the pain. Several people really flinch/cower hard and the rest of us just have our fingers crossed. It has been long enough that we figure someone's time is near.

Wanting or not wanting to get hit in the head depends on the number of players and the size of my poker stack at the time of the tree falling. A two table game where I'm short stacked might be worth taking the shot

 

[1A25R]

Raise of any amount allowed

bet 100, raise for 120 total , re-raise 125, nah!

 

[DoubleEagle]

I used to play in a profitable limit game where you could “draw light” if you didnt have enough chips in front of you to make the call or raise. At the end of the hand you had to cover your lights with cash. Players would cover their lights with cash which went to the winning player and they would usually pocket the cash removing it from the game.

Stupid rule but the game was very soft.

 

[CaseAce]

No one here plays 7/2 cash games?

 

[JMC9389]

This has to be the dumbest thing I've ever seen. Some rando can just keep 1k in his pocket and decide to raise to such in a game where the blinds were 1/2 or smaller I'm guessing? Seems super fishy to me. Glad you got up and left.

Yeah, eff that noise.

Jeff's post reminded me of the now infamous "MIT Game" story posted a while back.

 

[SeanGecko]

No one here plays 7/2 cash games?

That's not a weird rule. That's a prop game.

 

[JMC9389]

No crazy home game rules for me, as we play a pretty cut and clean game when I host without much hijinks. Outside of some of my friends whom host that insist on playing with dice chips despite my offer to bring one of my sets to play with, there's nothing too outrageous that I've come across outside of getting side eyed when I raise preflop.

 

[Mangatang]

Friend took me to a game where it turns out they played all kinds of wild card games and didn’t play table stakes. I found it out about the stakes when i raised a guy to all in his $30 stack with $100 in front of me ... and he dug into his pocket to re-raise me for more than I had, and if I didn’t want to lose the hand I had to call the whole raise. It was more than I had on me, and they said I could go IOU. If I wanted to raise more, I could. I pointed out the concept of table stakes. It was an insane conversation. I folded and got the hell out of there...

If you've ever seen the movie, "Big Hand for a Little Lady", this is what happened. It's set in the old west. When one of the guys bets more than the other guy had, they paused the game to go to the bank to take out a loan so he could cover the bet.

 

[sheikh617]

Yeah, eff that noise.

Jeff's post reminded me of the now infamous "MIT Game" story posted a while back.

Link?

 

[SeanGecko]

They had this on Gunsmoke too. All Western shows did this and every damn tv shows does it.