PokerStars - Tips

In the usual informal PokerStars game, the dealer may choose which form or variation of Poker will be played. Sometimes he is not limited to forms of poker, but may select such games as Fan Tan, Red Dog, or any other game suitable to the number of players at the table. Sometimes each dealer in turn plays a series of games, and this is known as Garbage. There is one special rule applicable to Dealer's Choice: When the game selected is Jackpots, or any other game in which the hand can be passed out, when a hand is passed out everyone antes again but the same dealer redeals.

The following are popular Dealer's Choice games:

IN THE OCEAN

. Each player gets four cards, dealt one at a time face down. The dealer then places one card faces up in the center of the table. This card is wild, and every other card of the same rank is wild. The card thus shown in the center of the table is considered to be the fifth card of every player in the game. In most games of Spit in the Ocean, every player antes before the deal. There are several methods of betting:

Variant 1.

There is only one betting interval, which occurs after the deal is completed. When the bets are equalized, there is a showdown.

Variant 2.

As in Stud Poker (except that the cards are dealt face down) there is a betting interval after each round of one card is dealt to each player who has not dropped, and a final betting interval after the card is faced in the center.

Variant 3.

After the face-up card is dealt, there is a betting interval; then each player who has not dropped may discard one or more of his face-down cards and draw enough cards, also face down, to restore his hand to four cards. The rul of Draw Poker apply. There is then a final betting interval before the showdown.

MEXICAN STUD.

Stud Poker is played, except follows: Each player receives his first two cards face dow and may turn up one of them, after which there is a bettii interval; each round thereafter is dealt face down, but aft the deal each player must turn one of his face-down cards Thus there is only one hole card in each hand at any or time. Each player should select the card to turn up before an other player has turned up his card, so that all cards ar turned up simultaneously; but if any player turns his car up before the other players have selected theirs, any otht player may change his selection before turning up his card.

Poker Brains-

Among the many names for this game are Lame Brains, Rickey de Laet, and, in one variant, Criss-Cross. Five cards are dealt face down to each player, one at a time, and five more face-down cards are dealt to the center of the table. One of the cards in the center is turned face up, and there is a betting interval; then another, and so pokerstars on, with a betting interval after each card, until all five are exposed In the showdown, each player selects five cards from amont the five cards of his hand plus the five exposed cards on the table. No card is wild unless the dealer so designates before dealing.

CRISSCROSS.

The center cards are laid out in the form of a cross, and the center card is turned up last. Each player must select one or the other bar of the cross, giving him only eight cards to select from. Otherwise the game is the same re Cincinnati. The dealer may, if he wishes, designate the center card and all other cards of the same rank to be pokerstars wild cath This designation must be made before the deal begins.

SHOTGUN.

Draw Poker is played, except that after each player has received three cards the deal is interrupted for a betting interval; then each player who has not dropped receives another face-down card, and there is another betting interval; then each player who has not dropped receives a fifth face-down card and there is another betting interval There is then a draw, followed by a final betting interval and showdown.

DOUBLE-BARRRLLED SHOTGUN.

Shotgun, as described in the preceding paragraph, is played as a high-low game; and there are four additional betting intervals, because after the draw each player turns up one card of his hand at a time, with a betting interval following each. High and low hands split the pot