Mixing Up The Home Games

Alright so we play alot with friends at least 4 times a week. After a while I find playing holdem gets kind of boring. I love poker, don't get me wrong it but you can only play so much of it with friends before you find yourself not enjoying it like you use to. Anyway we mix our games up every now and than to wild card poker. There is nothing better than everyone betting into a pot and than dropping out of the race because they hit a kill card or someone ended up with 5 Q's lol. It makes for a really good night of fun, huge pots even for those players who play small limits and just a great game.

I figured I would share a game we play and it adds a nice element of surprise at the end.


"Burn The Biffell"

Each player gets dealt 3 or 4 cards (up to the dealer as to how difficult the game will be)After which you deal another 10 cards down on the table in two rows. Top row is your good cards and bottom row is your bad cards.Than everyone bets or checks their hole cards (normally check it)You flip over first good card than you flip over first bad card, players who have this card in their whole cards must now show them and they become dead cards, meaning you throw them in.

Betting rounds take place again and usually when someone has to lose a whole card there is betting. You repeat this process till all cards are flipped except for the last bad card. Betting takes place and the best part of this is the last card has yet to be turned over so people are betting on what seems to be a live hand. Than the last bad card is flipped, usually once this happens a couple people end up losing their hands. Than betting again after which whoever has the best 5 card hand wins.

Pots can become a nice size so I usually cap betting till the last bad card is flipped. This is a great game cause people are usually betting there hands from the first round and when that last bad card is flipped it can determine if you are still winning or if your hand has now been declared dead.