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[Skribbles]

A game of Guts or Posts usually breaks out after are Hold'em tournys.

Guts:
Everyone antes $1
Dealt 3 cards
You can change 1 card
Make your best hand (only high card, pairs and trips. Not str8s or flushs)
Goes around the table from left of the dealer.
Players say "In" or "Out"
All the players in show down there hand
Every player that loses has to replace the pot.
ie. 5 players with $1 ante = $5 pot
winner takes the $5
all players who stay in and lose put $5 into the pot. So if 4 players stayed in the next pot would be $15 (3 losers all replacing the pot).
So if you lose the next hand, its minimum $15.
If only 1 player stays in he goes against the "granny hand".
Lose to the granny and you pay double the pot.
Players all ante again if the pot gets killed by someone beating the granny hand.
***Warning***
Guts can get very expensive in short time. (I LOVE IT!)


Posts:
Simple game
Everyone antes $5
You get 2 cards face up to you
All you have to do is call if the next card is going to be inbetween them and how much you want to bet.
ie. My play I get 3 and J
I'd bet $4 that the next card would be inbetween those 2.
You win, you take your bet from the pot.
You lose, you put your bet into the pot.
You hit a post (J or 3 in this case) you pay double your bet to the pot.
At anytime you can bet the pot...
ie. 2 A
The only cards that can make you lose are an A or a 2
If you get dealt something you don't like, like a 5 / 6 or J / K, you can simply pass the turn and the next guy gets new cards.
If the first card shown to you is an Ace, you get to choose if it is a high A or a low A before you see the next card. If the 2nd card is an Ace it is always high.
You can also bet on a post. If you get it right, you win 5x your bet.
If a pair is dealt to you, you split them like in Blackjack and you have to seperate hands to play.

[Magra]

Guts sounds really fun! Maybe a little too much for my younge age, but with shorter limits(quarters) we could play.

Posts sounds alot like the game "Acey Ducey" My dad was a cop and told me stories all about stuff happening from that game(guys getting shot and robbed, etc) Could get huge pots


We like to play Blinds mans bluff. Nothing else really floats with us i guess. Sometimes we do small buy ins (3 or 4 bucks) and do an "all-in or fold" game. Unlimited rebuys so we buy in a bunch and the winner usually gets a pretty decent pot.

[ibarrio]

I have played guts a few times and yes it can become expensive really quick. Fun game. I

[ibarrio]

Acey Ducey can get crazy expensive as well.

[SillyPuppy]

If you want to give Guts a try (no discard, but flushes and straights count, with straights ranked HIGHER than flushes), I played it at TigerGaming. They have it, as well as Chinese Poker, and a couple other variants.

They play two variants of Guts - One variant has all losers replacing the pot, the other has only the owner of the worst losing hand replace the pot. A fun game, requires little attention.

[ibarrio]

Yup. They have guts at Tiger Gaming...Fun..

But the home game is much better. Makes people crazy..

[ibarrio]

Other Games..

7 Card Stud..Black Bottom.

Highest in the hole takes have the pot.

[ibarrio]

Seven Card Stud Game. Follow the Queen.

Some games Queen and card after are wild. Some games only the card after the Queen is wild.

[Skribbles]

If you want to give Guts a try (no discard, but flushes and straights count, with straights ranked HIGHER than flushes), I played it at TigerGaming. They have it, as well as Chinese Poker, and a couple other variants.

They play two variants of Guts - One variant has all losers replacing the pot, the other has only the owner of the worst losing hand replace the pot. A fun game, requires little attention.

There are way to many different rules with guts. The one reason we don't play with straights and flushes is because no one can decide which should be ranked higher. It usually just starts a big arguement. Which is higher on Tigergaming, Trips or Flush? Trips or Straight flush?

Playing guts for .25c cheaps it fairly cheap, but you can still easily get into $20-$30 pots.

Used to always play Guts on the bus for (senios) hockey trips. It would get insane. We'd played with $1 ante and have at least 9 guys playing, sometimes up to 15 guys. Pots would get crazy huge!

[snoogins47]

We used to play pimp guts regularly, and acey deuce/in between the sheets.

Once people started having an idea about poker strategy, they gave up those two.

I have some sort of weird fascination with acey-deucey, and I can't explain it. I actually was working on a rudimentary point-count system for it and wanted to write a program to simulate it and all that, for no reason.

At any rate, the best story about the game I think is something that happened with my group of friends.

At one point they had trouble starting a game, so it was only four/five of them. I wasn't present, sadly. They played a few hands of poker, and somebody called acey-deucey. We played with open wallets. Granted, we were a bunch of high school students at the time so we all weren't carrying a shithouse of cash...

but the four/five of them started to play a game of acey/deucey, and they lost.

[snoogins47]

BTW: Guts is essentially a form of Brag/3-card poker. We used to play some forms of brag in those games too, and a run (three card straight) always beats a flush.

[xDiamond_CutteRx]

I'm boring... I only play the traditional games: Hold'em, Omaha (high or hi/lo), and Seven-Stud (high, hi/lo, or occasionally razz). I like to play triple draw when I can, but that's only a once-in-awhile game (don't like it enough to play regularly). My favorite version of home game is H.O.R.S.E, but I can rarely get it together because I'm the only one of my group with much knowledge of games outside hold'em.

[swingbomb2]

blind mans bluff is a real mans game

[tame_deuces]

We sometimes end up doing a dealer's choice after the holdem tourney,
and these games are the ones usually played:

Blind Man's Bluff playing 5-card draw w/ mandatory draw (hilarious!)
Hurricane
Anaconda (one of my favourites)
7-card stud (because everybody knows I suck at it)
5-card draw 'Any Bobtail to Open' (the oldtimers choice)
Wild Widow

[PuckJunkieNY]

Have not played Guts or A/D since college days. Some crazy pots indeed.

I mostly play HE (90-95% of time), but I do dabble in other games when I feel like a change up from HE

Triple Draw A-5 or 2-7-
Play it at UB.
I like it quite a bit, but not complete sure why. Just fun.
Phil H plays quite a bit as well I've noticed, but at a higher limit than I. I usually see him at the 40/80 or above tables. Those games are fun to watch.

Crazy Pineapple regular, but mostly 8/b -
Play this at UB now and again. Alot of crazy suckouts, but a fun off game for a change up. You can beat most idiots by playing good starting hands and folding when the board is poor. Too many can't let hands go. Winning high and low rules.

Omaha and O 8/b-
Play this, but not as much as trip draw or CrzyP. I may dabble a bit more in O.

5 card draw -
Hardly play this anymore, but I've found that Paradise Poker has it online. I've won alot and lost alot on it. Still, it a fun change up from HE.