Poker night
Everything for a home game with chips: the big three poker forms, dealer's-choice favourites and a few lighter betting games for between hands.
- #1 Texas Hold'em (No Limit) Two secret cards, five shared ones and a pile of chips – bet it all when you dare and make the best five-card hand of seven. Two hole cards, five shared ones and no limit – the backbone of every poker night.
- #2 Home Poker Variants (Dealer's Choice) Chicago, Heinz, Mexican Stud, Iron Cross and more – each dealer picks the game, the wilder the better. Dealer's choice: Chicago, Heinz, Iron Cross and more – each dealer picks, the wilder the better.
- #3 Omaha (Pot Limit) Hold'em with four hole cards – use exactly two of them, bet up to the size of the pot, and watch the monster hands collide. Four hole cards, use exactly two, bet up to the pot – bigger hands and bigger swings than Hold'em.
- #4 Seven-Card Stud Three cards hidden, four for all to see – five betting rounds in which you read the table card by card. Three hidden, four face up and five betting rounds – reading the table card by card.
- #5 Five-Card Draw Five secret cards, one chance to swap – the poker everyone learns first, all about nerve and reading your opponents. Five secret cards and one chance to swap – the poker most people learn first.
- #6 Seven Twenty-Seven (7/27) Take cards or stand – one half of the pot goes to the hand closest to 7, the other to the hand closest to 27. Split pot for the hands closest to 7 and to 27 – a betting game that rewards nerve.
- #7 Follow the Queen Seven-Card Stud where Queens are wild – and so is whatever card follows the last face-up Queen, until the next Queen changes it. Queens are wild – and so is the card after the last face-up Queen, until the next one changes it.
- #8 Indian Poker Hold your card to your forehead – everyone sees it except you. Read their faces and bet on a card you can't see. Card on your forehead, bet on what you can't see – a laugh-out-loud break between serious hands.
- #9 Razz Seven-Card Stud turned upside down – the lowest hand wins, Aces are small and the dream hand is 5-4-3-2-A. Seven-Card Stud played for the lowest hand: Aces are low, straights and flushes don't count, and 5-4-3-2-A is the dream hand.
- #10 Guts Two cards, one closed fist – are you in or out? Win the pot, or match it if you lose. Two cards, one closed fist – in or out? Lose and you match the pot, so it grows fast.