Poker Rules

[jducoeur]

Since a friend is holding a poker table soon, I thought I'd take this as the excuse for a project I've been meaning to do for a while: writing down some of our poker variations. I've written up a page in the household wiki, briefly detailing a whole bunch of the games that we call from time to time at our table. Have fun, and feel free to ask questions...

Comments

[etherial.livejournal.com]

Interested in a highly random (and entertainng) Seven Card Stud variant called Baseball?

[jducoeur]

Oh, we know Baseball. (It's actually one of the more standard variants.) But we've found it a little wildcard-heavy for our tastes -- with the exception of Secret Squirrel (which everyone agrees is extreme), it's pretty rare for us to play anything with more than one wild rank...

[new-man.livejournal.com]

When I call Baseball, I was always told to call "Day Baseball", which implies there's a "Night Baseball" as well. I have no idea what the difference is.

Also, do you want to put up credits for some of those variants? I can claim Screw, Crapper, and Canary in a Coal Mine.

[new-man.livejournal.com]

And Harvey Dent.

[jducoeur]

My impression was that Night Baseball is the same game, No-Peek -- which makes it almost the ultimate in silliness multiplied.

What name for the credits? (Mundane is the default, but it being a more or less SCA table, it isn't obvious.)

[new-man.livejournal.com]

Oh -- my modern name is fine. Charley might want to claim a couple of those as well.