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Baseball

This is a 7 card stud variation.

3’s and 9’s are wild. If a player is dealt a three or nine face up, then they have to pay the ante (usually fifty cents) or fold their hand.

If a player is dealt a four up, then that player gets an additional card, face down.

Variations to Baseball

Make wilds cost more money

Add jokers

Rain-Out Baseball: If a Queen of Spades is dealt face up, the hand is dead, everyone re-antes and a new hand is dealt.

Chicago

This is a 7 card stud variation.

Only difference is player with highest spade FACE DOWN splits the pot with highest poker hand.

Low Chicago

Played the same as Chicago except the lowest spade FACE DOWN splits the pot with the highest poker hand. Aces are considered high only.

San Francisco

This is a 7 card stud variation.

Only difference is player with highest heart FACE DOWN splits the pot with highest poker hand

Follow the Queen

This is a 7 card stud variation.

The wild card is the next up card following an exposed (upcard) queen of any suit.

Example: A Queen is dealt face up, and then the next face up card is a six. Sixes are now wild. If another Queen is dealt face up later in the hand, the next card becomes the new wild.  So the wild can change throughout the course of the hand.

If a Queen is dealt face up and there are no more face up cards, nothing is wild.

Follow the Queen and Queens

Same as Follow the Queen Poker except Queens are wild as well as whatever is face up after the Queen is dealt.

Roll Your Own Poker

This is a 7 card stud variation.

Each player is first deal three cards face down.  Players each then select one card that they would like to turn face up.

Fourth, fifth, and sixth street are dealt and bet the same as Seven Card Stud Poker.

For the final card, the player has the option to have it face up or down.  Normal betting ensues and the highest poker hand wins.

The catch:  The lowest card that each player has faced down is wild for their hand.

Roll the Other Guy’s Poker

Played the same as above except the player sitting to the right of each player gets to choose which card that player has to turn up.

Padre Texas Hold’em Poker

This is a Texas Hold’em or Omaha style variation.

Each player receives five hole cards.  There are five community cards.

The players make the best hand out of the 10 cards.

Players may use any number of hole/board cards for the best combination.

Maximum players is nine.

Pineapple Texas Hold’em Poker

This is a Texas Hold’em variation.

Each player receives three hole cards and discards one before the first round of betting.

There are five community cards.

3-5-7

Played the same as Seven Card Stud Poker, with three different wilds.

Threes are only wild if they are face down.

Fives are wild regardless of whether they are face up or down.

Sevens are only wild if they are face up.

Herb

Antes are thrown into the pot, and every player is dealt four cards face down.  At which point they have to decide if they are in or out.

Dealer says “1-2-3” and at 3 they have to either drop their cards or hold onto them.  If they hold onto them, they are considered ‘in’.

Every player remaining gets one more card, then draws. There is no betting and the best hand wins. Each player that remained ‘in’ and lost has to pay the size of the pot.

(Example: If the pot was $5, and three people stood in, then they each owe $5, making the new pot $15).

The player who won has to play a dummy hand (known as Herb hand) to collect the pot. If he wins, he collects the $5 pot. If he loses, he pays the $5 pot. The dummy hand draws five straight cards. No more drawing after that.

The new pot ($15) is established and the process repeats itself. Now if a player remains ‘in’ and loses, they owe $15. There is no more ante-ing.

The game ends when only one person remains ‘in’ and beats the dummy ‘Herb’ hand.

Guts

Played similarly to Herb, except each player is dealt only two cards and there is no drawing. Only pairs and high cards count.  There are no flushes, straights, etc.

Anaconda

Each player is dealt seven cards face down. They then must discard three to the player on the left. After they received their cards, they must now discard two more cards to the player on the left. Again, they receive more cards. Now they must discard one card to the player on the left.

They now discard two cards to the center (These cards are dead).

Then each player organizes their face down cards in whatever order they want them to be revealed. The cards are shown one at a time in a clockwise manner with betting after each round.

The highest and lowest five card hands split the pot.

Stud-Jack

This game combines poker and blackjack!

Played the same as Seven Card Stud Poker.

The players with the highest poker hand AND the highest facedown blackjack hand split the pot.

A player may decide to have the last card face up or down, so not to ruin his/her blackjack hand.