What's Your Preferred Game? (1 Viewer)

[CdnBeerLover]

Do you like to play tournaments or cash games?
Why do you prefer one over the other?

NLHE Tournaments. That's about all we can get people to play, so I simply have more experience with them. Trying to get people to attend a cash game is like pulling teeth. We have the odd cash game (25c/25c) after the tournaments end, but they aren't frequent.

We have had a few games of PLO, and I loved it. It's hard to get others out to play, though, as they are comfortable with NLHE.

 

[Phantom]

I prefer NLHE, 25c/25c live. I started with Tournaments, but have no plans to go back as the cash game is more social and informal. We tried to add 5-card draw, for something different, but they all prefer HE as that is all they know. Was thinking PLO, but I am not very good at it. None of my current players really played cards before they started playing with me.

 

[lherron]

Been playing a bit of badugi (limit) ever since Gordo took down the 50k WSOP players championship this year. Quickly becoming a favorite.

 

[Racer96]

If it involves cards and chips, it's probably my favourite game ever.

Mike

 

[<°)))><)]

In this order of priority:
Live
Cash dealer's choice
MTT
Cash NLHE only

NLHE flips, followed by Big O8, followed by SOHE, with PLO flips dead last.

Oh? Hey @bergs I'm always looking for new ones: what is "NLHE flips" and "Big" O8?

 

[Ronoh]

Oh? Hey @bergs I'm always looking for new ones: what is "NLHE flips" and "Big" O8?

Flip = you each put up cash up front, best hand wins (no additional betting).

BigO8 = Omaha hi/lo with players being dealt 5 cards instead of 4.

 

[<°)))><)]

Thanks @Ronoh !
"Flips" are called "flash" here.
And bigO is just Omaha 5 Though I must admit it's pretty biiig

 

[kirchhausen]

Any game where Chippy is playing (preferably to my right).

 

[Chippy McChiperson]

I’ll play any man from any land any game he can name for any amount he can count…Provided I like it!

 

[xxmurrxx]

Omaha hi/lo is my current fav. I would say razz but it's such a tilting game

 

[RowdyRawhide]

At home I'll play about anything.

At the casino I just stick with NLHE until I get better at the others. Got my ass handed to me enough times on PLO to realize I need more experience with out dropping several hundred dollars donation

 

[BGinGA]

Omaha hi/lo is my current fav. I would say razz but it's such a tilting game

Yeah, I'd say the same. Last weekend I finally found a game more tilting than razz, though -- Razzaho. Two ways to tilt on every frickin' hand....

Still have a love/hate relationship with Razz, but I will be perfectly happy to never see Razzaho dealt again in my lifetime.

More experience with NLHE tournaments than anything, but have played a fair amount of others: limit HE, limit O8, and Badugi for cash, and tournament PLO, PLO8, Tahoe (lazy pineapple), HORSE and individual components (Razz, Stud, Stud8). Ran a HORS league locally for several seasons (NLHE, PLO8, Limit Razz and Stud8).

Played a ton online prior to black friday, but much prefer to play live with friends.

 

[brews]

5/10 PLO. It's a wild ride.

 

[Puggy]

Cash. Tourneys.
PLO or PLO/8

 

[pltrgyst]

Last weekend I finally found a game more tilting than razz, though -- Razzaho. Two ways to tilt on every frickin' hand....

Still have a love/hate relationship with Razz, but I will be perfectly happy to never see Razzaho dealt again in my lifetime.

Particulars, please? Painful as they might be to relate...

 

[illmil]

I prefer MTTs with no rebuys because I know how much I can lose in that session. I enjoy the different strategies of survival style in an MTT vs going for the big chip stack bully and controlling the table against survival style players. I do love playing low stakes cash too though. But when I'm getting gold decked over and over and there is no cap to my buy-ins like a tourney it can ruin my evening. If I wasn't married and my wife wouldn't go crazy when I have unlucky cash nights though, I'd probably prefer cash games. It's just a cashflow issue for me on why I like MTTs.

I don't have any lucky charms or anything for live tournies.

 

[lherron]

I prefer MTTs with no rebuys because I know how much I can lose in that session. I enjoy the different strategies of survival style in an MTT vs going for the big chip stack bully and controlling the table against survival style players. I do love playing low stakes cash too though. But when I'm getting gold decked over and over and there is no cap to my buy-ins like a tourney it can ruin my evening. If I wasn't married and my wife wouldn't go crazy when I have unlucky cash nights though, I'd probably prefer cash games. It's just a cashflow issue for me on why I like MTTs.

I don't have any lucky charms or anything for live tournies.

I wish MTTs didn't have so much inherent variance. All things being equal, I like the excitement of MTTs more than any other poker experience.

 

[MeridianFC]

Cash, live, low stakes. NLHE & Stud.

Oh, and Brag.

 

[pltrgyst]

Particulars, please? Painful as they might be to relate...

Ah, finally found it:

Razzaho (also often referred to as "Jas-aho" after its creator) is the first game I've seen that mixes community card and stud games. Players are dealt a razz hand in the same way that any stud variant is dealt — two down, one up, followed by betting, then three more up with a round of betting after each card, followed by a final card down. But after each player receives his card, one community card is revealed until, after the final down card is received, there are five community cards to be seen. Half the pot goes to the player who has the best razz hand, ignoring the community cards. The other half goes to the player who uses two of his down cards (Window cards are NOT playable for the other half of the pot, though they do provide a wealth of information) and three cards from the board to make his best five-card hand (e.g., similar to Omaha, except you only have three down cards instead of two).

 

[abby99]

Re Razzaho: If I understand it correctly, dealing the last round would be 1 down to Player A, 1 Community card up, 1 down to Player B, then a second Community card up, and so on. If three players are in the hand it would be 1 down to A, 1 community up, 1 down to B, 1 community up, 1 down to C, and 3 community up. Is that correct?

 

[BGinGA]

Yep, that's it, Larry. #furazzaho

Abby, we deal a community card at the end of every dealing round, prior to the betting on that round. Deal three cards (down,down,up), cc flop1, 4th street, cc flop2, 5th street, cc flop3, 6th street, cc turn, 7th street (down), cc river.

I think dealing the entire board at the end of the hand would be less climatic, and entail a lot less skill.

 

[abby99]

That makes much more sense, Dave. I think I took the instructions too literally (as usual).

 

[Pinball]

Any game I win

At the moment it's Razz