On May 28, 12:50Â*pm, "Joel *DFD*" wrote:
On May 27, 7:39�am, Frank Reid wrote:

(note: never play poker with someone that comes up with a variation
called "midnight baseball.")

:-)

(damn...third try at this post)


If you boys are poker players, you'll like this game. It evolved from
a monthly get together we have here in HK, and even with 2 or 3
seasoned (read: unadventurous with new games) players, this has
caught on as our #1 game.

Basically, its 5-card draw, no surprises (draw 4 with an ace, etc),
but the hand that takes the pot must be the highest hand at the table
(as usual), AND it must contain a 3.


For example, if I am holding a boat, aces over threes, and Frank has
4 fives, then I don't get the pot because his hand beat mine.
However,
he doesn't get the pot either because his hand doesn't have a 3. He is
a
'spoiler' and the game carries on with a reshuffle, and the next
player dealing.


Its a lot of fun....sometimes a few spoilers come out in a row and
the pot grows a lot, Like someone has three 3s, and someone else has
3
Ks. The moment of decision comes when you get dealt something like
3,9,10,J,Q: do you keep the potential straight to be a spoiler, or
the 3 and Q to try for the win? Or what if you have 5,5,9,9,A? Do you
play for the boat (to be the spoiler), or keep the higher pair to try
to draw a 3, or the ace and go for the big draw (something worthwhile
with a 3), or toss the ace and hope to draw a 3?


Since the highest hands in the deck (royal flushes, high straights)
are spoiler hands, having a hight hand with a 3 isn't a guarantee of
a win.


We need a name for this; "3's a crowd" has come up, as had "Menage a
trois". For now, we call it "That 3 game"

--riverman