There will be $25 in a 'good' Omaha pot by the end of flop betting and still have two more streets to bet. More so when you consider most hands become 'folders' when people whiff on draws or end up with an unimproved pair of fours. The secondary issue is that a game with two betting rounds doesn't build much of a pot. The end result is the dealers rarely choose five card draw or triple-draw due to the size of the table. That means the people later in the draw have to draw from the discards (in my games there are always lots of people paying to draw and then taking three or more cards). Even with eight players, you have 40 cards dealt to players and 12 cards in the stub for draws. The biggest issue with five card draw and similar games is that the table has to be 'short handed' for there to be enough cards to play the game. The betting format is $1 - $4 spread limit. I host a mixed game where we play five card draw, if the dealer calls it.

If you cash that check I'll kill you.' The check never got cashed.īoth players were still regulars on the local scene when I left, but the cheat always got his ass out of there as soon as the mark showed up.Īnyway, long story short, yeah let's play some 5 card draw. The mark texted the cheat, 'I have you on camera holding cards. I never got the full story on how that was possible but it was a self dealt heads up game. Sure enough, the cheat was dropping cards in his lap. So he wrote the check, the cheat left, and the mark went to the camera. The mark was smart enough to ask if he could write a check for the amount and the cheater said yeah sure.

Sure enough, guy goes on a run again and gets up about $3500. One of the guys was convinced he had gotten cheated so he set up a camera in his garage where they played and invited the guy back for another match. He took a couple of guys for big numbers playing $75/150 limit double draw. It went on for several years with this guy steady losing. I figured out later that it was primarily because of one giant degen who donated insane amounts to local poker economy. When I first moved to NJ 5 card draw was a popular game in the area to play short handed or heads up.

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