Carnival Poker
There’s a good reason that you will not likely find any “wild” poker games in casino poker rooms. Good players would not show up. I’ve noticed that the way to neutralize a good poker player is to get him or she to playing in a home game that if laced with what I call “phony poker games.” These are carnival poker games that reduce the game to pure chance. Games like “One-Eyed Jacks (are wild),” “Doctor Pepper (10’s, 2’s, and 4’s are wild),” “Low hole card is wild (and all like it),” and “Follow the Lady (the card dealt after the Queen is wild, but could change if another Queen is dealt up).”
There are some that are close to regular poker such as “Three card poker.” In this game, though, a straight beats a flush. Go figure! It’s explained that it’s harder to get a straight in three cards than a flush. Another “almost poker” game is a game of 7-Card Stud and the high spade in the hole splits the pot. In the carnival version of this, the low hole card is also wild.
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Useful poker terms:
- QUALIFIER - A minimum standard that a hand must meet in order to win. Usually applied to the lowball side of a high-low split pot.
- LEAK - To show one's hole cards (often unknowingly).
- HIGH-LOW SPLIT - Forms of poker in which the pot is split between the best hand and best lowball hand.
- OVER - A term used in describing two pair or a full house. "Kings over tens" means two pair, kings and tens. "Jacks over", also "Jacks up" describes a hand that is two pair: Jacks with an unspecified lower pair. Also used to describe a full house, distinguishing the three of a kind from the pair. The hand J-J-J-A-A could be described as "Full house, Jacks over Aces".
- BEE No. 92 (TM) - Trade name for the "diamond back" cards frequently used in casino games. Compare: RIDER BACK.
- DRAW - [1] A class of poker games characterized by players being dealt 5 cards face-down and later having the opportunity to replace some of the original 5. "Draw poker" and "Five-card draw" are examples of usage. [2] In stud and Hold'em games, the set of cards that will be dealt later can be collectively called "the draw". [3] To discard some number of cards and have dealt an equal number of replacements.
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