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There's a lot more to this game than chinese poker, try it and you'll see. I don't disagree that it has a lot less to it than lowball, it might even be possible
by bramcohen 17y ago
There's a lot more to this game than chinese poker, try it and you'll see. I don't disagree that it has a lot less to it than lowball, it might even be possible to write a program to compute ideal play for it, but doing so is distinctly non-trivial, and it requires some distinct effort to play reasonably on even typical hands, much less the interesting ones.
- mattmaroon 17y agoI'll give it a shot. Luckily I have one other ex-pro poker player in the office with me :) Unfortunately from a gambling perspective, 2 rounds of betting would probably preclude this from catching on. The only game I can think of with that is 5 card draw, and nobody's played that in years.
- bramcohen 17y agoI understand your perspective, but chinese poker is a popular gambling game, and so is blackjack for that matter, so not everybody has the same taste in games as you do :-) The obvious way of bolting gambling onto this game is to simply have an even money bet on every deal. Note that the cards are initially dealt out face up, which makes the whole game really just be one round as in chinese poker.
- mattmaroon 17y agoI wasn't speaking from the perspective of what I like. I don't like a lot of games that are popular. Chinese poker isn't very popular really, you'd be hard pressed to find a casino that spreads it. I played it a decent amount when I was playing poker for a living, but it was more like 4 guys just found an open table and played. Blackjack's easy because the dealer can play like an automaton, and the game moves really, really fast. If your game could have a dealer algorithm (like Pai Gow) you might be able to sell it as a table game. Breaking into that is extremely hard though.