Weird game a friend came up with at my home game (1 Viewer)

[skipton]

It was late into a home game at my place and we we're getting bored of the Drawmaha variants we'd been playing most of the night. My friend gets the idea to play a version of drawmaha where there are only 3 hole cards in your hand. I pointed out how it couldn't work since you can't make a 5 card draw hand with only 3 cards, but then he got the idea to just do 3 card poker hands that follow the Trilux side bets you'd see at a black jack table. This means that a straight is better than a flush, and 3 of a kind beats a straight, straight flush beats 3 of a kind.

To sum it all up, it's just like Draw2maha except you only get 3 hole cards. The pot is split between the best omaha hand, and the best 3 card Trilux poker hand. I think we made it so that you can only draw 1 card instead of 2. We might have tried it with the sviten rules where you can draw one card face up, and reject it and get a different one face down.

We played it no limit as well, which made it a little crazy. It ended up actually being pretty fun, and was a nice change from regular Draw2maha.

Let me know what you think of this game. Has anyone ever played something similar to this? I recently heard about some games that mix omaha and black jack hands, or omaha and Baccarat hands as well, but I've never heard of this specific Trilux 3 card ranking before though.

 

[extreme517]

@RocAFella1 Your feedback/input on the above would be interesting. This was a cool variant to play, but I'm sure there is ample room to experiment and make it even more psychotic. 5 hole cards, but two best are your Omaha hand and the remaining three are a trilux? Kinda like Omajack or Omabacc?

@chippitydoodah We can mess around with this on Memorial weekend at Alpha's?

 

[RocAFella1]

I've heard of Trilux but haven't really looked into it but it sounds like it's basically Three Card Poker?

I would call playing drawmaha with 3 cards something like draw1bisexual threesome if I'm understanding the premise correctly. Best Omaha hand using 2 and the board, and best Three Card Poker hand in the mitt.