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Home Game Heroes: The Strategy of “Dealer’s Choice” Games

Many home games are played “dealer’s choice.” This means that the deal rotates from player to player, one hand at a time, with each dealer given the responsibility of choosing which variant of poker to deal. Which game do you pick?

Assuming there are no restrictions on what games you may call, you may want to call a game with at least some advantage for the dealer. Games that have sequential betting, beginning with the dealer’s left, are examples of games with a built-in dealer advantage. If the first player to the dealer’s left starts the betting action, then the dealer gets to see the action of every other player at the table before he decides on his own action — a decided advantage.