Strange home game rules you have run into? (3 Viewers)

[Saoliver]

No one here plays 7/2 cash games?

Yep, 72 off suit gets a buck from everyone in my little game.

 

[Coyote]

Yep, 72 off suit gets a buck from everyone in my little game.

Even if it gets to win the hand anyway?

 

[Saoliver]

Even if it gets to win the hand anyway?

Yep. Must be the winning hand at showdown, or if everyone folds to you and you show it. It takes guts to play 7 2 off suit. We've had it fold around and the BB shows it to win.

 

[Mangatang]

Just wanted to make my 100th post to see if my status changed from "High Hand" to "Pair".

 

[Frogzilla]

May not be that unusual
1) able to go south in between hands
2) “absolute” straddles, where action will skip the straddle until only his decision could close the preflop action

 

[CaseAce]

Yep. Must be the winning hand at showdown, or if everyone folds to you and you show it. It takes guts to play 7 2 off suit. We've had it fold around and the BB shows it to win.

Yea, that's how we play too. I like it, it opens starting ranges, helps induce action from nitty players. Makes heros of some and suckers of most.

 

[upNdown]

Yep. Must be the winning hand at showdown, or if everyone folds to you and you show it. It takes guts to play 7 2 off suit. We've had it fold around and the BB shows it to win.

I hate it. I know it sounds beyond nitty, but I don't like the idea of chips coming out of my stack for reasons beyond my control.

 

[Saoliver]

I hate it. I know it sounds beyond nitty, but I don't like the idea of chips coming out of my stack for reasons beyond my control.

I get it. It's usually just a small bonus for pulling of a bluff. And 90% of the time that people try it, it ends up costing them a bunch.

 

[DoubleEagle]

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.

Fun movie to watch.

 

[upNdown]

I get it. It's usually just a small bonus for pulling of a bluff. And 90% of the time that people try it, it ends up costing them a bunch.

They played it recently on some high stakes type show on pokergo. Guys were losing like $50,000 pots, trying to get a $500 chip out of everybody. It's hard to come up with an amount for the bonus that makes it worth pursuing, but isn't an egregious penalty on the rest of the field.

 

[mashoo]

PLO - 4 pairs is the absolute nuts. Still normal PLO using 2 cards but if you can pair each individual card in your hand with the board, you win. Anyone who hits 3 pairs will call down everything and anything to hit that 4th pair lol.

 

[Rhodeman77]

PLO - 4 pairs is the absolute nuts. Still normal PLO using 2 cards but if you can pair each individual card in your hand with the board, you win. Anyone who hits 3 pairs will call down everything and anything to hit that 4th pair lol.

I have heard of this a 7-2 type game rule. If you pair all 4 hole cards every at the table pays $X to that player.

 

[Jeff]

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.

That was exactly my question to them. There wasn’t a lot of money on the table, I asked what happens if I have $2000 in my pocket (most people had about $100 on the table) and they said that’s okay, they trust me because of my friend and everyone’s good for it or can borrow the money...all sorts of alarms going off in my head. I let the $30 go and left ASAP.

 

[aaronroch]

We play under a very large mango tree that fruits 4 months out of the year. If you get hit in the head by a mango each player owes the victim a fiver. Some people may consider that strange.

This is just awesome and I totally love it.

 

[dkersey]

I hate it. I know it sounds beyond nitty, but I don't like the idea of chips coming out of my stack for reasons beyond my control.

Its not beyond your control. Don't fold, and you win!

 

[ceramicmike]

I prefer to play home games over casino games for the most part. But every home game is different and many have strange rules that come with just that game.

So what are some of the off the wall rules you have encountered?

I used to play in a game that fined players for any mistakes. Misdeal, $1, acting out of turn, $1, flipping over a card when folding, $1. Farting at the table $5. All the money went to the bad beat pool.

I started playing in a new game last week that has one of the strangest rules. The game is Hold’em or PLO dealer’s choice as he deals. The dealer can look at his first 2 cards and decide if the hand will be Hold’em and stop dealing or keeping dealing 2 more cards and play PLO!

They have been doing it this way for a long time and feel it is fair since everyone gets to do it. The chips are a mix of dice chips. I had to bring a cut card last night to get them to use it. If the game wasn’t so soft I wouldn’t play it, but I’ll put up with some silliness for an easy game.

So let’s hear some crazy stuff!

Shit! I’d be broke with the farting rule alone

 

[shorticus]

I prefer to play home games over casino games for the most part. But every home game is different and many have strange rules that come with just that game.

So what are some of the off the wall rules you have encountered?

I used to play in a game that fined players for any mistakes. Misdeal, $1, acting out of turn, $1, flipping over a card when folding, $1. Farting at the table $5. All the money went to the bad beat pool.

I started playing in a new game last week that has one of the strangest rules. The game is Hold’em or PLO dealer’s choice as he deals. The dealer can look at his first 2 cards and decide if the hand will be Hold’em and stop dealing or keeping dealing 2 more cards and play PLO!

They have been doing it this way for a long time and feel it is fair since everyone gets to do it. The chips are a mix of dice chips. I had to bring a cut card last night to get them to use it. If the game wasn’t so soft I wouldn’t play it, but I’ll put up with some silliness for an easy game.

So let’s hear some crazy stuff!

Are silent farts half off if you admit to it?

 

[Mangatang]

The one who smelt it, dealt it.

 

[CaseAce]

They played it recently on some high stakes type show on pokergo. Guys were losing like $50,000 pots, trying to get a $500 chip out of everybody. It's hard to come up with an amount for the bonus that makes it worth pursuing, but isn't an egregious penalty on the rest of the field.

I might just be stating the obvious but at our game it usually plays out the same.

Player with 7/2 opens/raises/3bets repping pocket Jack's or better. Continues the flop polarizing their range to a monster pocket pair or 7/2. They continue this line the rest of the streets. After the flop the $10 7/2 prize isn't what's at stake anymore, its selling the bluff that you are repping a monster and scoping a big pot.... or losing one. Either way, I like the action it creates but don't insist we play 7/2 either.

Someone corrected me earlier. This is not a rule so much as a prop. Sorry.

 

[abby99]

They played it recently on some high stakes type show on pokergo. Guys were losing like $50,000 pots, trying to get a $500 chip out of everybody. It's hard to come up with an amount for the bonus that makes it worth pursuing, but isn't an egregious penalty on the rest of the field.

It's not about the money, though.

 

[k9dr]

I play at a game where there is a $1 fart tax.









@manamongkids

How do you still have any money left

 

[Indyscammer]

Raise of any amount allowed

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

My first cash group did/does this. I recently invited them into a league I run and have to continually remind them how to bet. I’m 3 years older after 2 league games. Who is Robert again and why did he write rules?

 

[WedgeRock]

I hate it. I know it sounds beyond nitty, but I don't like the idea of chips coming out of my stack for reasons beyond my control.

Fold better.

But seriously, you can't outplay 7-2? That's in your control... And if the flop is 772, you were losing anyway.

 

[gopherblue]

I play at a game where there is a $1 fart tax.

Sorry to hear you're stuck $1,457,376.

 

[12thMan]

Fold better.

But seriously, you can't outplay 7-2? That's in your control... And if the flop is 772, you were losing anyway.

I think he means he doesn’t want to have to pull a buck out of his stack to give to someone who wins with the 7/2, not that he doesn’t want to play against someone playing 7/2. His point might be that he most definitely folded better and still has to pay $1.

 

[WedgeRock]

I used to play in a game that fined players for any mistakes. Misdeal, $1

@mike32, @Marc Hedrick, @Boother36 I've been thinking that @detroitdad is winning too much. We could implement this rule... It would cost DD at least $20/night.

 

[WedgeRock]

I think he means he doesn’t want to have to pull a buck out of his stack to give to someone who wins with the 7/2, not that he doesn’t want to play against someone playing 7/2. His point might be that he most definitely folded better and still has to pay $1.

He was ahead with any hand PF. Even Postle knows that.

 

[RocAFella1]

I get it. It's usually just a small bonus for pulling of a bluff. And 90% of the time that people try it, it ends up costing them a bunch.

If people are going to play 72 like they’re Aces, it’s worth the small bounty each and every time. We usually play for 5BB per person.

 

[detroitdad]

@mike32, @Marc Hedrick, @Boother36 I've been thinking that @detroitdad is winning too much. We could implement this rule... It would cost DD at least $20/night.

Im down about a grand since November.

 

[CaseAce]

My first cash group did/does this. I recently invited them into a league I run and have to continually remind them how to bet. I’m 3 years older after 2 league games. Who is Robert again and why did he write rules?

Round here we call it Bob's rules. More of a guideline really. Much like pirate code I guess.