Does anybody else play old fashioned poker?

[carpriver]

we use to play every night when the grand girls visited. we play 5 card stud. we used pretzels as money. it was always fun and everyone was a winner. their moms didn't like that I taught the girls to play. if you send the kids to my home for the summer I am going to spoil them and teach them life skills.

 

[Pig Hunter]

Never took to TX holdem. Taught the kids to count with black jack. Did a lot of penny ante draw and 7 card stud in college. best lesson I learned was when you sit down nd look around, if you don't see a sucker, you're it. enjoy 500 and cribbage too.

 

[steelslaver]

On one camping trip I taught my stepdaughters how to play poker. We used M&Ms as chips. During the first lesson they quickly lost all their M&Ms. This brought on some wails of anguish as they realized they had no candy. Most important lesson in gambling. Don't bet anything you are not willing to lose. They paid more attention during the rest of lessons.

 

[Maddog 521]

We play Dealers Choice Poker every Saturday night. Me, my wife, my twin daughters and my wife's sister. Sometimes a few others show up too. If we get to many we set up other tables and play euchre. No big losses or big wins we keep it low stakes. A big winner usually wins 4 or 5 bucks. Great fun and we look forward to it.

 

[DWalt]

I have never been a card player, and have never played poker other than video poker. I have only the most general idea about how to play any of the different poker games beyond knowing that a Royal Flush is the highest hand. Many years ago my wife and I played bridge, but I was never any good at it.

Back when I was a kid, my parents and their friends played Canasta every Friday night. I never knew how that game worked either.

 

[mmb617]

To me, 5 card stud with nothing wild, is the most pure game of Poker.

Do you play with the last card up or down? I've seen that game played both ways.

I play monthly with a group who plays old fashioned poker. We're all in our 60's and 70's.

That sounds like us. Other than my son who's 29 the rest of us are all 65+. I think maybe he takes advantage of our mental lapses.

We play every Saturday night. No big losses or big wins we keep it low stakes. A big winner usually wins 4 or 5 bucks. Great fun and we look forward to it.

The key to keeping it fun is low stakes. Our maximum bet is a quarter and there's a limit of 3 raises so a bad night might be losing $10. That way nobody is getting hurt financially and the game is simply recreation. I've played in games where the stakes were higher and they started out as fun, but inevitably the fun goes away when someone loses too much money. And some people don't know when to quit.

 

[CAJUNLAWYER]

One of the main reasons Holden took over is the basics of the game.
You can easily play a 10 person ring game-try that with 5 or 7 card stud.
The game moves fairly quickly regarding amount of hands played per hour which results in an increased rake for the house-this is why casinos prefer to play a hold em game over an Omaha game-more hands per hour.
Some people swear on Omaha, but it is VERY different from Hold um and if you don't know what you are doing you can get hammered.
As far as fun not get hurt games, You cannot beat a four handed spades game for a nickel a point.

 

[Marshwheeling]

Played some poker, usually where the dealer calls the game, so you might play 5- or 7-card stud, or draw poker, but you might play a lot of the mickeymouse games as well. Social pressure could be applied to keep the games from getting too outrageous.
My youngest brother used to swear by hold 'em, but I never really encountered it until I started seeing it on TV years later.
Bridge is the game that used up thousands of hours of my time. Learned it in the senior lounge in high school, and played all through college and law school. Parents, teachers, and the parents of many of my dates would play.
To my mind, thebest of all card games. The down side is the learning curve.

 

[ACORN]

In high school me and my buddies would play at the one guys grandfathers house. Of course the GF joined in. Penny ante type game. Dealers choice. Seven card or five card stud jacks or better etc. None of us had much to gamble. Then one game the grandson was crowing about how much he'd won (maybe $5) and his aunt caught wind and raised cane that we were taking all the old mans money etc.

 

[ACfixer]

Hold 'em has been around a lot longer than TV poker guys... most poker "experts" agree it is the purest form of no-limit poker, followed by 5 stud.

One card down in 5 stud where I come from. And yeah wild cards of any sort are a joke.

 

[DWalt]

Speaking about Bridge, I once had a boss who firmly believed that the route to success was being able to play a good game of both Bridge and Golf, because those were the games played by the successful people that you need to be around. I think he was correct, as he was good at both and also very successful. Unfortunately he died from brain cancer when he was in his mid-50s. But I never learned to play good Bridge or Golf.

 

[Peak53]

We had a long standing monthly game, quarter max with three raises, which keeps the stakes friendly. It ran for years and was good cards with good men friends. It was like a running men's group.

We had a female friend that agitated for years to play and we finally agreed. Then there was another woman. Now, don't get me wrong, I definitely liked the women, particularly these two attractive gals, both of whom I dated at one time or another. No not at the same time But, trouble invariably ensued.

Unfortunately, the game devolved from poker as the main attraction, maybe with a takeout pizza and a couple six packs, to a full blown party with pot-luck meals and too much booze. The card game became an afterthought. I do miss those daze - all of them.

 

[TX-Dennis]

Never much liked poker, although I've played a bit in friendly games. I'm more of a spades and chickenfoot dominoes guy.

 

[zeke]

Quit playing poker decades ago, too many wild card/party games. Always liked 5 card draw, nothing wild and nothing to open. My father taught me poker and cribbage, and my inheritance is his fathers card box.