Poker with Friends... Crazy Games

Last night I had the usual game with the guys and it was hysterical. Instead of the traditional Hold em format that we have followed for a while, we have returned to classic form from when we were in university.

The style for the night was dealer calls. For those of you who have your home games, and I am sure there are many of you, you know what having a night of poker with dealer calls can entail. To say the least, the games were insane.

I couldn't even tell you the names of most of them because they are not fit to print. I know that I can write pretty much anything I want here but I am trying to stick to poker and its relevant language so we'll keep it clean.

For the most part these games are all about chance. There is very little skill involved and they tend to involve milking one another for as many chips as possible. There is one game that I can mention, we call it anaconda. This game is a split pot game. Before you pass judgement, this is nothing like any poker game you have seen before. Basically, five cards are spread out in front of us. One card is turned over at a time with a round of betting after each card. If you match a card in your hand with a card that is flipped over, you put it down on the table. The object is to have the cards in your hand add up to either the lowest or highest number possible with each taking half the pot. The game is ridiculous and we throw in a lot of chips.

This was the tone of the evening. Every once and a while somebody would call Omaha or Hold Em, just to bring a little sanity back into the evening and we would forget about strategy and play like a bunch of donk calling stations because that's what the other games were about.

The game was hysterical we had a great time and if you are looking to shake up your home game a little bit I would highly recommend it. The unfortunate thing is you might like it too much and dealer calls may become your regular poker game. If so, best of luck.