new cash games

[joel]

[nature boy]

lol.
either case, i wish i was there...

[joel]

well are you still sick now? if not... well...

[nature boy]

actually, i am haha. the cold turned into a cough.

[geForce]

Just wanted to say.. Some of the new cash games we've been playing have been pretty fun. Some aren't great because they don't work like how we planned, but we did come up with some cool ideas. Fun stuff

[nature boy]

yeah, i've been impressed with the new games you guys came up with. i have none. i don't think i'm putting in that much effort, fellas.

[geForce]

I came up with one that didn't work lol

[nature boy]

was it called auction?
and you yell out how many cards you want to trade?

[geForce]

I didn't come up with that stupid game.

[nature boy]

lol it was hilarious.

[tiger]

Now to introduce "drunk" mystery man. If you lose to mystery man, you take a shot.

[nature boy]

haha oh dave.
you and your mystery drunks.

[Duncan]

haha, actually i tried to resurrect auction in a different way... it's a work in progress. Jai tried to improve on it and then i tweaked it a bit more. I think it's almost out of beta testing. It caused some pretty huge pots too haha

[nature boy]

care to elaborate for those of us who weren't there?

[Duncan]

everyone gets dealt two covered cards to start, en route to a 7 card stud game. the last card can be covered if you want, but basically after the two covered cards are dealt, the next card in the deck is flipped up for everyone to see. then everyone puts a max $2 bid in their hand and reveals their bid at the same time. Highest bidder gets to choose whether to take the card or toss it into someone's hand. If there is a tie for the winning bid, then the max bid doubles, and keeps doubling until there's a winning bid. Only those who tied the winning bid can keep bidding.

Also, no one can take another card if they already have the card for the auction round. So say we're on the first bidding round (meaning everyone only has 2 covered cards at the moment), and jai wins the first bid and takes the card, he cannot take the next card and put it in his hand. He can still bid but if he wins, he can only give it to someone else. Basically, everyone has to have the same amount of cards after a round of auctioning. After everyone has the same amount of cards (in our example, everyone has 2 covered and 1 face up), there is a betting round. If there are no bids on a card that gets flipped up, then the card is discarded and nobody gets the card and the next card is flipped up for bidding. When there is only 1 person left missing a card for the round, he gets the next card in the deck. This means that he gets the card for free, but at the same time, he doesn't get to choose the card because there are no bids. If the deck runs out, then too bad so sad. It worked ok with 4 players, but i imagine it'd be hard to keep discarding cards with 5+ players

After all said and done, it's whoever has the best hand in a 7 card stud game