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A lot of poker players who like to play poker online for real money also go to a land-based casino to gamble. For the most part, it ends up being that once-a-month experience where somebody is willing to put up quite a bit more at a casino on a wider variety of casino games than one would at the Home Poker table. Every now and then, such a home poker player will call a casino-played game, adapting it to the home poker table.
Calling a 'casino game' at the Home Poker table poses only one problem, but one that is assumed by the dealer who calls the game. That dealer, most of the time, will need to put himself or herself up as the House, meaning players are no longer playing against each other in these games, but rather all playing against the dealer. The dealer is playing against each player individually and at the end of the hand, either paying each player's bet or collecting that player's bet.
Pai Gow Poker
Pai Gow Poker is a game for the casinos, adapted from some old Chinese dominoes game. In other words, if you ask twenty people how to play Pai Gow Poker at the Home Poker table, you won't get the same answer twice. What follows are different ways that Pai Gow can be played at a home game.
The dealer must first designate the stakes. On each play, the dealer will either pay a player for his hand, collect from the player, or there will be a push. At a nickle- or quarter-table, the stakes usually involve bets of up to $2...there are no betting rounds so the amount bet is the only amount of money that a player stands to win or lose.
The dealer deals seven cards to each player, including himself or herself. At the same time, players and the dealer make two hands out of these seven cards, one hand of five cards and one hand of two cards. The five card hand will be played out as a regular poker hand under the table of what beats what. The two-card hand is played out as a Two-Card Guts hand, consisting of either a high card or a pair.
Red Dog Poker Game
Red Dog is how In-Between is played in the casinos. The dealer puts himself up as the House, but deals himself no cards.
Each player places a bet, and is dealt two cards face-up. Starting with the player to the left of the dealer, the player decides whether or not he will add money to his original bet based on his first two cards. Extra wager can be added to the original bet up to the total of the original bet (i.e. an original bet of fifty cents can have up to fifty cents added to it).
Caribbean Stud Poker
Before any cards are dealt, each player places a bet in front of them. This can range from the table's minimum bet to its maximum bet, but based on the rules of the game, the dealer may decide to alter the stakes somewhat. The dealer then deals five cards to each player, including himself. However, one of the cards that the dealer
deals into his own hand must be face-up (hence, Caribbean STUD), whereas all of the players' cards are dealt face-down.
Players then determine if they will stay in the game or not, somewhat Guts-style. This happens, starting to the left of the dealer and moving in sequence around the table. Players indicate that they will stay in the game by adding an equal sum of money to their original bet. If their original bet was for 50 cents, then to stay in the game, they must add an additional 50 cents to that original bet. Those that call out, that do not double-up their original bet, are out of the game, their original bets collected by the dealer, acting as the House.
Once each player has determined whether they are in or out, the dealer flips over the other four cards of his hand, revealing his hand to the table. If the dealer's hand is not at least as good as an Ace-King, that is, if the dealer's hand does not consist of at least a pair, then all remaining bets at the table are paid even money and the hand is over. If the dealer's hand is at least as good as an Ace-King, that is, consisting of a pair of Twos or higher, then the dealer compares his hand with each player's hand at the table. If the dealer's hand beats a player's hand, then the dealer collects that player's bet (both the original bet and the double-up bet.
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