User:JanineKnoll4

I'm a member of a regular Friday night poker game, and as with most friendly games, the dealer moves from participant to player for each hand, and the dealer gets to select his game. My favorite? A game known as "Texas Push".

The Idea of the game is To make a five card hands (one down card and four up cards, similar to five card stud) where the highest hand and the lowest (worst) hand split the pot.

The game starts with each Player getting down one card. The first player then receives an up card. The player has the choice of keeping the card, or passing it to the next player. If the player keeps the card, the next player receives an up card along with the exact same option. If the player passes the card, the next player then also has the same choice and so on through the players. In each case, there is a cost to passing a card. Once a player keeps a card, the other previous players are "filled in", they receive a card that they have no option but to keep. This process continues, with betting on each completed round, until each of the players have 5 cards in total. Once all the players have 5 cards (along with the gambling is completed), the players are then asked to "declare". A coin in their hand means they're announcing for the "large" hand, without a coin means the "low" hand. The lowest and highest hand for every declaration split the entire pot.

The strategy of the game Is to use the capability to pass cards to develop either a high or low hand. Poker players will know what the high hands would be - normally three of a sort, a straight, or a flush will be a winning hands. For the low hand, the ultimate would be 6, 4, 3, 2, Ace in which they are not in suit (a flush or straight cannot be utilized as a low hand).

It is a fun, tactical game That's always a hit at our weekly poker game. More information: [http://pokerdee101.blogspot.com/ related resource site].