In this, the fifth and last article in this series looking at and upending conventional poker wisdom regarding home games, we’ll examine the commonly given advice to avoid wild card games.
Those of us who are serious poker players tend to love variety. Though we may have a favorite game, we love mixed games like H.O.R.S.E. or H.O.S.E. or the 10-game mix.
For those of us who like to exercise our poker creativity, best of all is Dealer’s Choice, where the dealer can pick any game, stretching the boundaries of standard poker games like hold’em, stud, and Omaha to include games with two or three rows of common cards, extra hole cards, or extra rounds of replacing cards, declaring high or low, or even passing cards from one player to the next.