Full House
Join Date: Apr 2004
Posts: 755
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I feel your pain. I played in my cousin's home game. The only thing resembling poker was they played with 52 cards. It was dealer's choice and they played mostly 5 card draw and 7 card stud with all kinds of wild cards, low in the hole is wild etc. They did not know how to play hold em. I attempted to introduce holdem and they insisted on an ante and nobody folded anything. It was just drawing cards (at least nothing was wild!). We only made 2 orbits and went back to dealer's choice.
The good news was that I made about $90. I actually had to tell one dude to stfu. I was folding a lot of hands and he starts trying to give me poker lessons. I tried to explain to him that I had just made the final table in a tournament with over 700 people the night before so I didn't think I needed his help.
The only positive in the wild cards was that it really helps your skills with reading hands. The bad news is that you need to make a straight flush or four of a kind to win. My best hand of the night was taking down a monster pot with 5 Aces against 5 kings.
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