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 H.O.R.S.E, Forecyte, 30. Apr 2003 10:58 | ||
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| Does anyone know of a site where I can learn the rules of H.O.R.S.E and how it is played? | ||
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| Re: H.O.R.S.E, stdioh, 30. Apr 2003 11:02 | ||
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| Yes. Learn how to play hold'em, omaha, razz, 7-card stud, and 7-card stud eight-or-better (hi-lo), and when you play all of them, you are playing HORSE. I personally like to add pineapple to the mix and play POSHER. | ||
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| Re: H.O.R.S.E, Wren, 30. Apr 2003 11:15 | ||
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| I personally like to add pineapple AND guts to the mix and play GOPHERS. Unfortunately, I'm most often representing the vast minority there. :O) | ||
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| Re: H.O.R.S.E, stdioh, 1. May 2003 08:54 | ||
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| Just remember this: You called it POSHGER - I was the scrabble nerd who made it GOPHERS. But as for me, I will *not* play guts ever ever ever again. | ||
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| Re: H.O.R.S.E, Schuster, 1. May 2003 10:31 | ||
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| Hmm, if I recall correctly, you have a degree in math? Guts is a game I really love at our home games because I have much better math skills than everyone else (buncha english and econ majors, haha!) at the table, and thats the real guts of the game. :) Too many people know math too well at your table? | ||
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| Re: H.O.R.S.E, TKarrde, 1. May 2003 10:45 | ||
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| What do you mean by "Guts"? We play a game called three card guts. Everyone gets three cards. Then we all take a chip and place it with one side or the other showing stating if you are in or out. Then everyone shows their chip at the same time. Everyone that is in shows their cards and high cards win. Everyone else matches the pot. Normally we have to cap the pot or it gets out of control. Is this similar? TK | ||
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| Re: H.O.R.S.E, Schuster, 1. May 2003 10:56 | ||
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| Yeah, that's the same game we play. There is also a dummy hand dealt face down on the table that you have to beat to take the pot, and the game ends when only one person stays and beats the dummy hand. I'm not sure if this is a local rule or not. Like I said, it's mostly math. If your hand has a better than even money to beat X players, then stay. If not, then fold. Lee | ||
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| Re: H.O.R.S.E, stdioh, 1. May 2003 11:51 | ||
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| Nope...the game we played was a silly one involving players being able to look at other players' cards depending on action in the hand. Basically you all get one card and any player can make a bet up to the size of the pot, other players can call or fold only. Then all those calling look at eachothers' hands and the best hand at the moment wins that much out of the pot that was stated and all losing players in the showdown add twice that amount to the pot. The game ends when somebody bets pot and gets no callers. On each round players get another card to add to the one they have that some others have already seen. and again somebody bets to get the money. When all five cards are out, then on the next hand, each player starts with just one card again. When you "fold" you aren't mucking your hand - just not getting in on the action, so you're still there for the next hand. I don't consider it "poker" and it can go for a very long time and cost a huge amount of money. It is the sort of thing, too, that an expert player could profit from a lot but that a beginner would take some time to work through. Startng with 25c was what got me roped in and the huge pot was what undid me. | ||
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| Re: H.O.R.S.E, 4 POKER, 1. May 2003 12:16 | ||
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| on 1. May 2003 11:51 stdioh wrote: > Nope...the game we played was a silly one involving players being able to look at other players' cards > depending on action in the hand. Basically you all get one card and any player can make a bet up to the size > of the pot, other players can call or fold only. Then all those calling look at eachothers' hands and the best > hand at the moment wins that much out of the pot that was stated and all losing players in the showdown add > twice that amount to the pot. The game ends when somebody bets pot and gets no callers. On each round players > get another card to add to the one they have that some others have already seen. and again somebody bets to > get the money. When all five cards are out, then on the next hand, each player starts with just one card > again. When you "fold" you aren't mucking your hand - just not getting in on the action, so you're still there > for the next hand. > > I don't consider it "poker" and it can go for a very long time and cost a huge amount of money. It is the > sort of thing, too, that an expert player could profit from a lot but that a beginner would take some time to > work through. Startng with 25c was what got me roped in and the huge pot was what undid me. Before I started playing "Real" poker, I can remember being at a "little fun" house game, you know, nothing serious, just 25c betting and so on. Well, we were playing Acey-Duecy (stupid game) and Guts, (another stupid game IMO), though all those games seem pretty silly to me now; anyway, there was one guy, real nice guy at that, who kept losing and losing and losing. The pot would be $2.00 and before you knew it, it was $200. He lost every big pot he was involved in and wound up oweing the game over $500. That's a lot of money for a 25c game and back then, it was sxxxload of money! We felt so bad for him that we let him slide and just agreed to getting our original buy-in back,(which wasn't much),plus whatever we may have won previously. I have never played the game since! 4 POKER | ||
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| Re: H.O.R.S.E, Wren, 1. May 2003 12:21 | ||
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| Actually, on each new round players start with 2 cards, not one. And when a bet is made, players don't "fold", as that indicates that they throw their cards away. They're just "not in" for this particular part of the round. Guts is almost like a lottery, except with risk. You can end up scooping a huge pot of several hundred dollars, having only invested the initial 25 cent ante. Some people like this aspect of the game, others hate it. | ||
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| Re: H.O.R.S.E, stdioh, 1. May 2003 15:39 | ||
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| I thought that we only started with one card. Meh. And as for the :"fold" I did indicate that it wasn't a muck and that the cards stayed until the next round, but I wasn't too clear about it. But I still can't be emotionally neutral when I think about the game. Stupid stdioh. Bad bad bad. | ||
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| Re: H.O.R.S.E, stdioh, 1. May 2003 11:46 | ||
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| Actually, I got roped into a guts game, having never played before and not even knowing quite how the rules worked. It was one of those, "We'll ante a quarter and play guts," games, where I said, why the hell not? When there was $200 in the pot and it wasn't a table stakes game I was in the untennable position of being in a game where I didn't understand the odds, the strategy, or anything about it and I had the choice of just letting that money go or trying to play the game anyway. I made the mistake of trying to play the game and the lesson I learned was a valuable multi-fold-lesson: Don't play a game with 25c antes that can turn into $200 bets being levied at you and you can play with money that you don't have on the table or fold. Don't play a game that you don't even know the rules or basic strategy of - even for pocket change. Don't play guts - IMHO, it's a bit of a silly game. | ||
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| Re: H.O.R.S.E, Nathaniel Brous, 30. Apr 2003 11:05 | ||
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| on 30. Apr 2003 10:58 Forecyte wrote: > Does anyone know of a site where I can learn the rules of H.O.R.S.E and how it is played? Grabbed this from the Dictionary at the bottom. I don't know which online site spreads it (if they do). - Nathaniel Brous H.O.R.S.E (n) A game or tournament format in which five forms of poker are played in rotation, usually either half an hour of each or one round of each. The games are limit hold 'em, Omaha/8, razz, seven-card stud (high), and seven-card stud high-low (the e standing for 8-or-better). Also see half-and-half game, H.O.E, H.O.R.S.E.L, H.O.S.E, R.O.E. | ||
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| Re: H.O.R.S.E, 4 POKER, 30. Apr 2003 23:45 | ||
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| H.OR.S.E is Hold-em Omaha 8 Razz Stud Eight or better stud The game is played in rotation with Hold-em for 1/2 an hour then Omaha 8 for 1/2 an hour, and so on, until each game has been played for 1/2 hour. Then it starts back up with hold-em... I'm not sure if any poker site offers these games that are played in rotation like that but I suggest you learn how to play ALL of the games first, before venturing in to it. There are some card rooms that spread H.O.R.S.E. and variations of it like H.O.E, and H.O.S.E. but it's really not that common in the lower limits ($5-10 and below). 4 POKER | ||
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