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Thought I’d share a couple of these and see if anyone else had interesting stories about how certain games got their name (I’m curious about Icelandic Scarney (and Scarney in general), and God’s Game….).
Archie
I’ve got it from several different people here (older folks that have played poker out here for over 40 years) that the game Archie originated in Arizona. Apparently a guy named Big Al made it up at a home game just outside Phoenix, and there was a guy named Archie who played in it, and he was reprehensibly awful at it. They called the game Archie in honor of him, and because the game was named after him he ended up playing nearly every pot and eventually went bust. It spread from there.
Circus Games
Back when chiptalk was still a thing, a New England local with the screen name Jose Rijo played in my home game. For those that know him, you know his name is Keith and he’s been a NE reg for over 20 years.
My home game started in 2009 and we played NLHE at first, and expanded to PLO in 2010 or early 2011, and eventually incorporated Crazy Pineapple (because gambooool), Big O, and (thanks to Abby99) SOHE. Thus the 2-3-4-5-6 card rotation game was born.
Initially there was some resistance. Some people liked the normalcy of a 2 card and 4 card game and thought SOHE was a lot like playing Bingo. Good ‘ole Jose was one of these stalwarts originally.
One night he was at table #2 and lost a big SOHE hand on the river and was complaining about the 2-thru-6 mix. He wanted to “go back to real poker and not these fucking circus games”.
Shortly thereafter, some of us went to Vegas and played in a mixed limit game and bastardized them for pot limit back home, and the moniker Circus Games just sorta fit. For those that have seen the Big Top Poker NAGB chips, they were originally made to honor the Circus Games theme.
Bum-Bum
At some point in 2012 or 2013 we were introduced to Tahoe. I think abby99 may have been the culprit behind this too if memory serves. Anyway, it was really 2-or-5 Omaha and typically played hi only, but we started doing it hi/lo because wheeeeeeee variance.
We also started playing Dramaha around the same time. I was playing at another home game in MA (ssanel54’s crew) and I was running bad and playing worse. On my 6th or 7th buyin of the night (like 2 hours in) I decided to call a game during dealers choice that was basically 2-or-5 Tahoe hi/lo but with a draw post flop (like in Dramaha).
Well, I got boned with a low and straight both in my mitt and lost my whole stack. I was pretty steamed - this was the first hand - and declared that since I got fucked in the ass on my own game, this was now and forever known as Stick It In My Bum Bum (or Bum Bum for short).
Derailment
I found out last year that this game is called “Squid Game” now in Vegas in the famous 4/8 Resorts World 60+ game mix.
A few years ago (6 or so) we didn’t call it that. We had double board Omaha which the ssanel54 crew had affectionately named “tracks”. Well, I was drunk and stuck again one night and decided to introduce a game I had learned with jbutler16’s ATL crew that was played as spread limit and fixed limit. We tried it limit at first with ssanel’s folks, and it was PL by the end of the orbit.
“Triple Board Omaha with a Board Removal” is hard to say when you’re drunk, so I took tracks, and conceptually caused the train to go off of them when one board goes away, and boom, Derailment was born.
If you have any other games that have interesting stories behind their monikers, let’s hear em.
Archie
I’ve got it from several different people here (older folks that have played poker out here for over 40 years) that the game Archie originated in Arizona. Apparently a guy named Big Al made it up at a home game just outside Phoenix, and there was a guy named Archie who played in it, and he was reprehensibly awful at it. They called the game Archie in honor of him, and because the game was named after him he ended up playing nearly every pot and eventually went bust. It spread from there.
Circus Games
Back when chiptalk was still a thing, a New England local with the screen name Jose Rijo played in my home game. For those that know him, you know his name is Keith and he’s been a NE reg for over 20 years.
My home game started in 2009 and we played NLHE at first, and expanded to PLO in 2010 or early 2011, and eventually incorporated Crazy Pineapple (because gambooool), Big O, and (thanks to Abby99) SOHE. Thus the 2-3-4-5-6 card rotation game was born.
Initially there was some resistance. Some people liked the normalcy of a 2 card and 4 card game and thought SOHE was a lot like playing Bingo. Good ‘ole Jose was one of these stalwarts originally.
One night he was at table #2 and lost a big SOHE hand on the river and was complaining about the 2-thru-6 mix. He wanted to “go back to real poker and not these fucking circus games”.
Shortly thereafter, some of us went to Vegas and played in a mixed limit game and bastardized them for pot limit back home, and the moniker Circus Games just sorta fit. For those that have seen the Big Top Poker NAGB chips, they were originally made to honor the Circus Games theme.
Bum-Bum
At some point in 2012 or 2013 we were introduced to Tahoe. I think abby99 may have been the culprit behind this too if memory serves. Anyway, it was really 2-or-5 Omaha and typically played hi only, but we started doing it hi/lo because wheeeeeeee variance.
We also started playing Dramaha around the same time. I was playing at another home game in MA (ssanel54’s crew) and I was running bad and playing worse. On my 6th or 7th buyin of the night (like 2 hours in) I decided to call a game during dealers choice that was basically 2-or-5 Tahoe hi/lo but with a draw post flop (like in Dramaha).
Well, I got boned with a low and straight both in my mitt and lost my whole stack. I was pretty steamed - this was the first hand - and declared that since I got fucked in the ass on my own game, this was now and forever known as Stick It In My Bum Bum (or Bum Bum for short).
Derailment
I found out last year that this game is called “Squid Game” now in Vegas in the famous 4/8 Resorts World 60+ game mix.
A few years ago (6 or so) we didn’t call it that. We had double board Omaha which the ssanel54 crew had affectionately named “tracks”. Well, I was drunk and stuck again one night and decided to introduce a game I had learned with jbutler16’s ATL crew that was played as spread limit and fixed limit. We tried it limit at first with ssanel’s folks, and it was PL by the end of the orbit.
“Triple Board Omaha with a Board Removal” is hard to say when you’re drunk, so I took tracks, and conceptually caused the train to go off of them when one board goes away, and boom, Derailment was born.
If you have any other games that have interesting stories behind their monikers, let’s hear em.
