I was talking with another guy in our mixed game group about an idea for a variant we'd not seen before. I guess this would be a Dramaha variant with 7CS as the individual hand instead of a 5CD hand. In talking it through, we think this would be the structure. The "stud side" would be dealt Mississippi style to have the same number of streets as the flop side.
1) Each player dealt 2 down, 1 up, round of betting
2) Each player dealt 2 up, deal flop, round of betting
3) Each player dealt 1 up, deal turn, round of betting
4) Each player dealt 1 down, deal river, round of betting, showdown
Pot is split between the best stud and best omaha hand. By my math this would play max 6 handed.
One flaw we discussed was that so much of the individual hand is exposed that allowing up cards to make the Omaha side might make the winner very obvious, so we considered that maybe you can only make the Omaha side from the down cards? In that sense, I think the Omaha side would effectively play like that Fusion game they put on Pokerstars last year.
Thoughts? Does this seem like it would be interesting or terrible? Ideas to improve it to make it viable?
1) Each player dealt 2 down, 1 up, round of betting
2) Each player dealt 2 up, deal flop, round of betting
3) Each player dealt 1 up, deal turn, round of betting
4) Each player dealt 1 down, deal river, round of betting, showdown
Pot is split between the best stud and best omaha hand. By my math this would play max 6 handed.
One flaw we discussed was that so much of the individual hand is exposed that allowing up cards to make the Omaha side might make the winner very obvious, so we considered that maybe you can only make the Omaha side from the down cards? In that sense, I think the Omaha side would effectively play like that Fusion game they put on Pokerstars last year.
Thoughts? Does this seem like it would be interesting or terrible? Ideas to improve it to make it viable?