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| * **Square and push**: Bets are placed in front of you, then when all bets are matched, we are "square" and everyone pushes their bets into the pot at once. This helps us keep track. | * **Square and push**: Bets are placed in front of you, then when all bets are matched, we are "square" and everyone pushes their bets into the pot at once. This helps us keep track. |
| * **Side-pots**: Sometimes, you may want to stay in a hand even after a large bet you don't have the funds to match. In this case, you can do a side-pot, where you're not eligible to win the money you couldn't cover in the bet. Don't worry, just find the soberest math brain and have them handle that crap. | * **Side-pots**: Sometimes, you may want to stay in a hand even after a large bet you don't have the funds to match. In this case, you can do a side-pot, where you're not eligible to win the money you couldn't cover in the bet. Don't worry, just find the soberest math brain and have them handle that crap. |
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| | Very specific hand ranking rules that usually don't come up: |
| | * **Hand type**: First, compare five-card hands by the standard ordering above. Only //five// cards may be considered (so, e.g., having three pairs isn't a thing). |
| | * **Card rank**: Next, go by the rank of the cards (highest card in a straight/flush, most prevalent in a full house/pair/triple, etc.) |
| | * **Kicker**: Next, go by the "kicker", the card(s) not actually in the listed hand. So 5-5-5-K-2 would beat 5-5-5-J-9. This can go on to the kicker's kicker, so 5-5-5-K-7 beats 5-5-5-K-3. |
| | * **Most natural**: Finally, go by "most natural", i.e., the hand that requires the fewest wilds to make. |
| | * If two hands match in ALL of the above, then it's a tie. Split the pot. |
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| * **Rainout**: If the 7 of diamonds is revealed, it's rainout. Collect all cards and redeal hand. Folded people stay out. | * **Rainout**: If the 7 of diamonds is revealed, it's rainout. Collect all cards and redeal hand. Folded people stay out. |
| * **Daytime** (normal Baseball): Dealt as a normal stud (2 down, 1 up, 2 down, 1 up, 1up). If doing wild tax or rainout, these happen for "down" cards at the showdown when all cards are revealed. | * **Daytime** (normal Baseball): Dealt as a normal stud (2 down, 1 up, 2 down, 1 up, 1up). If doing wild tax or rainout, these happen for "down" cards at the showdown when all cards are revealed. |
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| **Five card double draw, draw tax, primes are wild**: Five card draw, but with two draw phases, and prime numbers are wild (2,3,5,7). For the draw phase, there's a draw tax: each card past the first one costs a nickel. | |
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| **Indian Midnight Baseball**: Same as midnight baseball (above), but YOU don't see your own cards, only everyone else's. For each player to play, the other players will tell them simply "stop" or "go". "Stop" means either "you are winning, so you can stop revealing cards" or "you have a black six and thus lose". "Go" means "more cards are needed to become winning". Revelation of a 4 leads others to simply say "option to buy", which works as above, then after that's decided, you "stop"/"go" as directed. | **Indian Midnight Baseball**: Same as midnight baseball (above), but YOU don't see your own cards, only everyone else's. For each player to play, the other players will tell them simply "stop" or "go". "Stop" means either "you are winning, so you can stop revealing cards" or "you have a black six and thus lose". "Go" means "more cards are needed to become winning". Revelation of a 4 leads others to simply say "option to buy", which works as above, then after that's decided, you "stop"/"go" as directed. |
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| | **Five card double draw, draw tax, primes are wild**: Five card draw, but with two draw phases, and prime numbers are wild (2,3,5,7). For the draw phase, there's a draw tax: each card past the first one costs a nickel. |
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