Gimmick Mixed Game or New Way to Play?
So you’ve played hold’em, Omaha, 7-card stud, razz, badugi, badaci, baduci, razz-dugi, 2-7 triple draw, Chinese poker, Taiwanese poker, Indian poker and every hi-lo variant there is.
What’s next?
In a new game being spread at the Palms, using three 7s in his hand, Bruce Paul turned quads and paused the action after scooping a big pot.
“That’s called a sniper,” he informed all of us newbies at the table about holding three-of-a-kind.
Paul, the 58-year-old Californian who created the game, hopes his 2-11 poker is the next big thing to captivate the card playing world. It’s called 2-11 (“two-eleven”) because of the 2-card flop, the 1-card turn and 1-card river.
Players get 4 hole cards and can use 2 or 3 from their hand and 2 or 3 from the board to make the best 5-card hand. Betting was 2/4 fixed limit, but could easily be played NL or PL.
