The boys are coming over next week for some poker. The Big Bet is one dollah! We like to play a variety of different games, so I have invented Brooklyn Hold’em.
Each player gets two cards, one down and one up. (Bet.)
Each player gets a third card, face down. (Bet.)
Two-card flop. (Bet.)
Two more community cards. (Bet each time.)
So it’s like Texas Hold’em except you know one card in each person’s hand, and since each person gets three cards there is one less community card.
What do you think?
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BTW, if you play this game, I get 10% of your winnings.
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Community card games are the kind where some cards are dealt face-up to the middle of the table and then everybody uses these community cards in combination with their own cards to make the best five-card hand. (In Texas Hold 'em, the first three of five community cards are dealt at once, and this is called the “flop”.)
It is a lot of betting, now that I think about it. Perhaps I will remove the first betting round and deal all three hand cards at once, in a down-down-up fashion.
Or deal all three face-down and let player decide which one to “roll.”
I’m not much of a poker player but in my misspent youth I watched people playing Big Jacoby. (No community cards.) Five down, discard two, roll one, bet. Up card to each, bet. Up card, bet. Up card, bet. Replacement, bet. Declare (high/low/both), bet. Most of the games I watched were two-handed, so split pot. :smack:
Anyone here ever hear of Big Jacoby ? (Little Jacoby was the same, but one fewer Up cards.)
Here’s a game my friends and I invented back in the 80’s, Cool Ranch, a variation of 7 card stud hi-lo
Each player gets 2 down cards, bet.
Up cards are dealt, but with the Cool Ranch variation.
The first card is presented to the player left of the dealer, he gets to take or pass on the card. The card is then presented to the next player, who can pass or take, then the next player. If there are 3 passes on a card, the fourth player in line gets “ranched” and must take the card.
The second up card dealt goes to the second player left of the dealer, with the same take/pass process.
Betting occurs once each player has at least 1, 2, 3, and 4 up cards.
Then the 3rd down card is dealt normally. Final bet and reveal.
It takes a bit longer to deal, but it’s fun to stick people with cards they don’t want. You also get to yell at players who spend too much time deciding to take/pass.
Another note for this. It DOES add more strategy to the game, especially considering that the deal is progressive (clockwise?). After a round everyone has been in the worst position of showing a card first. I like this. Going to try it.
Obviously you’re welcome to adapt it as you see fit, but in the game I used to kibitz the discard and roll were all done before any betting.
The rolled cards were all exposed simultaneously. I don’t remember any special protocol to enforce this; I suppose that, if necessary to prevent switching, each player placed two cards face-down and held a single card unexposed, waiting until all players were ready to expose them simultaneously.
I really like the idea of the player deciding the roll. Very interesting! You could roll a high card if you want to control the bet, or a low card to lull your opponents into a false sense of security.
Revised Brooklyn Hold’em rules:
Everyone gets three cards face down.
Everyone simultaneously rolls one card. High card controls the bet.