Broke the deadlock in a homegame last night. I was the big winner, taking away more than 2,200bb.
taken the DTD dealers for a weeks wage each. More details please. Can't write pages of downs and wins as one liners
Yeah you pretty much nailed it! It's normally Nick's money that I take home. He loves the gamble. So do I to be honest; it's a good place to get rid of the degenerate gambler inside so we can be a sensible gambler when we get to the casino.
We play .10/.10 round of threach (that's a portmanteau of "three" and "each," and includes holdem, plo, and dealer's choice) but every so often we decide to take the skill games out and play .05/.05 "if you can explain it then we can play it." Many a ridiculous game has been concocted on the felt of these home games.
We played a variation of PLO called "Michigan" where you MUST use three cards from your hand and two from the board, so if you have the
in your hand and the
on the board, you do not have a royal flush! You need to find another diamond in your hand to make the nut flush, but it's quite easy for somebody to beat a flush as the board needn't pair for a full house or quads to be qualifying hands. If this weren't ridiculous enough, we hand a hand of said game when a couple of players went out for a smoke and we were five handed. We got 10 cards each and ran a ONE CARD FLOP and a ONE CARD RIVER. No turn, because there were not enough cards in the deck. Absolute insanity ensued on the
board.
We brought along an up and coming professional who, despite his degree in mathematics, spent the night making some awful equity decisions in the hi-lo hands, but redeemed himself with the ability to invent a new game out of thin air. 4/5/6 card reverse-O was a pretty sick one. The hand plays as a PLO hand except you get a one card flop, one card turn and a three card river. This led to some ridiculous lucksacking scenarios where you could obviously only make strong hand on the river, but you'd get accidentally freerolled all over the place with people just making full houses with hands that weren't even pairs to begin with. Great fun, especially when you can't really lose more than £5 or £10 in a hand, but everyone wants a piece of the action in a new game so you can stand to win a £50+ pot each hand.
What else did we play?
Double board games are always fun. You run it twice but with betting on the flop, turn and river.
PreLO. You just deal everyone a four card hand, do some pre-flop betting, then reveal your hand and run it through a calculator. The best part is taking side action after the cards have been revealed. You might put a load of money in with the AKTT d/s and then convince someone that the equities run close between that and 8754 when there's an AKQT showing and win a bunch on the side etc. Then run the whole board out for some extra money.
There was something we did called SHOWmaha, where you reveal a card from your hand before the round of betting on each street. So you deal it pre, reveal a card, round of betting. Flop, card, betting etc. The whole thing took quite a while, and I think a better variation of the game, George, if you're reading - the cards you reveal should be declared dead. For even more sickness, you should have to pay out some of the pot if your dead cards make the best hand at showdown, it could make for some tricky turn decisions where cards that are good for your made hand are bad for your discard hand. Just some ideas in progress. See you next monday to conclude these musings.
Anyway, I took £110 out of the game, with the biggest pot of the night when Nick and I got into it in a 6 card hi-lo hand. Nick was stuck and gambling loads, and I was winning a bunch and gambling a bit cause I didn't mind giving some of it back. I think I was in the fourth straddle or something, Nick pots it, someone calls, I repot it with AA6643 d/s aces and Nick peels. The flop was a T 8 6 two clubs giving me the second nut low draw, the nut frush draw, and bottom set. He did a massive tell of strength before checking, which I thought was kinda strange because of what I had in my hand, so I bet called it off for like £45 each. The TEN pairs on the turn and he declares a full house - I've been to this dance before, but I don't mind so much when there are six cards involved and it's going to a friend if I lose anyway! Then miraculously the SIX pairs on the river and I declare quads. Absolute nut sweat outcome. Lots of fun.
Small stakes, big pots, and the chance to say "read 'em 'n' weep."
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