Home Game Heroes: Different Board Arrays in Flop Games

The Circle Game with a Piddle in the MiddleThere are many home game variations of Omaha and hold’em — that is, games with community cards shared by all players — that are in a different array from the traditional five-card board. In this article, I want to share some of examples of such games, then in another we’ll delve into some related strategy considerations for these interesting home game variations.

For example, a game I played in the Bahamas, called Two by Four, had a board of four cards, dealt two at a time, for a total of only three betting rounds. Another game, called appropriately Double Omaha, has two rows of five dealt out as common cards, with players making their best high and…