Cash Game Unusual cash games (1 Viewer)

[Joe Harris]

So, I've been watching Jason Somerville's Twitch stream off and on. Once, he started to play a game I hadn't seem before called Badugi. I've been wanting to try it out during our home game ever since. I'm going to suggest we give it a shot this week. I think we'd play it pot limit, and probably with 25¢ antes. They won't want to play a fixed limit game..and the antes, because why not.

Anyway, I got to wondering..does anybody play anything but Hold 'em and Omaha? Is it a regular occurrence, or once in a while type thing? Is it a mixed game, or just an occasional orbit of x?

 

[detroitdad]

HOPE

holdem
plo
crazy pineapple
plo8

 

[derekdd23]

I regularly play HORSE

I periodically play
2-7 single and triple draw
Badugi
Badacey
Baduecy
Chinese

I rarely play other games but I am willing whenever they run

 

[Ronoh]

HOPE

holdem
plo
crazy pineapple
plo8

HOPE is still way too much hold'em.

Dealers choice (orbit+1) of any crazy game that can be played with the number of guys currently at the table FTW (and when you get down to 8 players allow SOHE with the button sitting out). Your players are familiar with Omaha AND with H/L... the possibilities are endless

 

[palindrome]

We play badugi all the time and I personally think it is way better as a limit game. The draws are pretty thin in badugi so playing pot limit will price out almost everything but this never stops bad players from calling.

Badugi is fun once you get people playing it. Swingy and frustrating, but fun.

Most of the games I play in are dealer's choice so we play almost everything. Triple flop games are all the rage right now.

 

[DrStrange]

Pot limit or no limit Badugi are rough on the bad players, even more so if they fold easily after the third draw. Once upon a time I played pot limit but it was too damaging to the game. We play spread limit now.

DrStrange

 

[manamongkids]

few times i played with bergs/chicken rob, 2 3 4 5, holdem, lazy pineapple, PLO, big o and I know they add a 6th one in, SOHE

 

[pltrgyst]

My home games are usually either hold'em or a mix of dealer's choice games from this list::

B = badugi
Bi = binglaha
C, C8 = Chowaha (hi, hi-lo8)
Cp = crazy Pineapple
D = five-card draw (hi, lo)
DC = Dealer's Choice
Db = double board hold 'em
FLH = Florida hold'em (must use 2 hole cards)
H = hold'em
Lp = lazy Pineapple
L7 = lowball, SoCal style (2-7, single-draw,7s rule)
M = Murder
O,O8 = omaha (hi, hi-lo8)
Oc = OmaChow (hi, hi-lo8)
P = Pineapple
R = razz (seven-card lowball, wheel low)
S, S8 = seven-card stud (hi, hi-lo8, double qualifier)
S5, S6-five-card stud (hi, six-card optional)
Sc = scrotum
T = triple draw (7-2)
TOC = H/O8/S

 

[Socraticd]

I used to play in a two games with my ex-father in law that were completely bonkers. All circus games, with a MOUNTAIN of black $2 chips. (I also played in another game with him and his MIT entrepreneur buddies that was pot limit, with these same games... can we say expensive learning curve?)

These might be known by other names, or familiar to folks, but they were ALL new to me when I was doing this and only ever played stud/holdem/plo

All of these were played hi-lo eight or better, ace always went both ways, and 6 low is the nuts, no straights, unless the dealer said otherwise and a wheel was the nut low

"32" - two five card community card rows dealt in the middle after each player was dealt 5 cards, you make a hand with either 2 from your hand and 3 from either the top or bottom row, OR with 3 from your hand and one of the "columns" of two from the two rows of 5 in the community. betting similar to

"ladders" - (I'm 90% sure i remember how this is dealt/played, but it could be a variation on what I'm recalling. It's been 4 or 5 years since I was able to play in those two games) 4 cards dealt to players, and 13 dealt to the community looking like an "8" on an LCD display:

X X X X X
X   X   X
X X X X X

Two from your hand and one of the 3 vertical columns made by the community, or two from your hand and three from any of the horizontal rows. The cards were flipped as the top row first, the bottom row second, and the middle row third. A betting round preflop and each street after.

"crosses" - 5 cards to each player, 5 in the community in the shape of a cross:

  X 
X X X
  X

Preflop betting, and then one street for each card flipped, one at a time, counter clockwise, with the middle card last. Two from your hand and either the vertical or horizontal 3 on the board.



Some others like 7-stud high low "roll your own" were dealt, and variations on that were you would take an exposed up card for free each street or pay a bet to take the card face down then roll your own up card. etc...

 

[bergs]

As manamong alluded to, we keep it simple and either play 2-6 (NLHE, Crazy Pineapple, PLO, Big O8, SOHE), or dealer's choice (choosing from the aforementioned games). Plenty of variance in regards to game selection, lots lots lots of action.

 

[Poker Zombie]

Just NL for our regular games here, because of the high volume of new players and/or purely social players. I have been teaching Mrs. Zombie Omaha and we play Badugi on long plane trips (Tray tables fit chips, but not community cards). I was starting to teach her SOHE when I though there was a chance of a SOHE tournament at S@P III, but now that that's dead in the water, so is SOHE.

 

[detroitdad]

HOPE is still way too much hold'em.

I don't disagree. It's the rotation of the games that keeps the players coming back. Every time I try to venture into something even a little different I usually get a negative feedback.

 

[B.C.]

NLHE until around midnight then full rotations of dealers choice from:

1. NLHE
2. PLO
3. SOHE
4. SOHE with the 4 card hand scrotum/PLO
5. SHOE played as dealt - first two cards are NL second 4 cards are PLO
6. NINE (NL, 3 card PLO, PLO)
7. NINE played as dealt (NL, 3 card PLO, PLO/Scrotum)
8. Scrotum
9. Acey Deucey
10. Manila

Occasionally someone will call:

Pineapple - hate this game for some reason
5 Card Draw - bluffers paradise
Blind Mans Bluff - just for those times when you need to have 2k pots with 3 people holding no better than 9 high