Ideas for a House Rule - I want your ideas! (3 Viewers)

[CallingStation614]

Hi folks,

I want to spice up my home game a little bit and introduce one (or multiple) house rules.

However I have no experience and might overlook something, so I'm open for ideas beyond my initial idea.

I thought about building a Jackpot that fills over time and can be won by e.g. Royal Flush winning hand.

My initial idea was to rake 1BB from every single color (not suit!) board (only if we see a river) into said Jackpot, and a winning hand of Quads, Straight Flush or a Royal wins the Jackpot. If my math checks out, a single colored board occurs roughly every 11%, so let's say on a given evening we play 100 hands, in my group we probably see a river 75% percent of the time because we are monkeys, there would be 6-7 single colored boards during one session. I just think this might be "too boring" because it could take a pretty long time until someone wins the Jackpot, probably with Quads anyways...

Does my math check out? Also if we play 12 sessions per year, this "only" amounts to a Jackpot of 12*7BB =84BB, which kinda seems underwhelming...

Anyone has idea to expand this or similar rules implemented at your home game?

 

[Tonystark137]

I thought about implementing something like this but the legality of it in the states is complex. I have though about instituting a bad beat "reward" that is free rolled by myself for my players. Haven't decided about what would qualify as a bad beat in a home game.

 

[Frogzilla]

If it’s single board, it’s only 5-6% to be all red or all black

Maybe better to do something that changes the game (some ideas: bomb pot, double board, double stakes, pineapple) for the immediate next hand

If wanting a jackpot maybe a small blind per hand every hand is better way, this isn’t going to be often enough to make it grow

 

[Omar65]

I like the idea of a high hand jackpot but, I would say bomb pots have changed my game for the better.......players love them. We play 1 bomb pot/hour, so in a session that ends up being 5-6 times. Our game is $1/$2, and on the bomb pots it's a $5 ante, we play double board and it can get pretty fun (within the level of stakes we're playing at least). Also, the game is just NLHE and the bomb pots are also NLHE.
Not a real answer to your question, but another way (as @Frogzilla mentioned above) to add some excitement to the game.

 

[TheYeti]

We do a progressive Bad Beat at the monthly 25¢/50¢ NLHE game I host.

It's funded by rounding cash outs down to the nearest $5, charging $1 for a Rabbit Hunting fee, and taking 1BB per player from every bomb pot. Qualifier is any full house beat by quads or better.

The jackpot hits about 2-3 times a year and is usually around $200-$400. Pays out 75% to loser, 25% to winner. If it ever gets over $500, I plan on including a table-share.

We play a bomb pot any time there is an all-same-suit or all-same-rank flop. This can be as much as 6-8 times per session, or as low as 1-3. We used to do every hour, but I like the randomness and "surprise factor" this way.

We also do a high hand jackpot every session that my players seem to enjoy. It's $5 to participate, you must pay before seeing your first hand, and we pay it out in chips at 11pm (game usually breaks around midnight). That way the HH money is in on the table for at least an hour.

If you want to check it out more in-depth, you can find my house rules here.

 

[CraigT78]

I have a bad beat jackpot in my game. We drop $1/hand into it. If quads are beaten (we play dealers choice mixed games) the jackpot is awarded. Our current jackpot is $820. It typically hits once or twice a year, but has hit three times in a single game before. I seed it with $100 each time. I don't care about legalities as the money is still being returned to the players and the Dallas police department took three days to respond to a stolen car, they aren't going to raid my home game over a bad beat jackpot.

 

[rrobyrrroby]

We collect 1BB every hand in a Jackpot jar.
50% of that is for the player with the highest hand at the end of the session. - High Hand Jackpot
The other 50% is collected every game we play and goes to the dealer that simply flip 3 same cards (7-7-7, Q-Q-Q, A-A-A...) - Super Jackpot



(the guy with 7-7-7 hit the Super Jackpot 4 hands/18min after the guy with 8-8-8 emptied it... )

 

[TheWhat]

We have a few for our 8-Max .25 / .50 Game, scale as needed.

Starting Buy Ins are $52 - $1 goes into High Hand (Boat or better paid out every night). Other $1 goes into a Progressive:

• Progressive we need to hit one of 3 "Special" hands. It will normally last a few nights before being won, once it lasted like a dozen sessions. Both hole cards must play, and you have to win the pot outright (Ie no Chop)
• Straight or Straight Flush 2->6
• Set or Better of Queens, with starting hand of Q6 or less.
• Full House with 2/3/4 as the Set, over 5/6/7 as the Pair.

We also play an optional Dealer Button game, any amount can be put on the blank button to start, if you win while dealing, you scoop the button. Next player can restart, or pass. This will often be .50 or $1, so after an orbit or two it starts coming into play.

We have either a $2 Bomb pot, or a "Chuck" pot at quarter past every hour. Actually goes Bomb - Chuck - Chuck Bomb combined - Chuck - Bomb and then we wrap up for the evening.

And the last wrinkle we have going is the Scrubs pot at the end of the night, everyone cashes out, rounding Down to the nearest $5; and the rest goes into Scrubs. Deal out a hand and a board, and winner walks.