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Other Games
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The games on this page are not actually poker games, but they are lots of fun, just the same. If your group is willing to venture beyond the boundries of traditional poker, give them a try.
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Zero-55
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A high-low split game with the object being to get as close to ZERO or 55 as possible. The player closest to zero wins low; the player closest to 55 wins high. Players may declare both ways but must win both.
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Card values:
All face cards are worth 0 or 10.
Aces are 1 or 11 (diamonds, hearts, clubs).
The ace of spades is worth 1 or 12.
All other cards are face value.
Best possible high hand = 4 aces and face card = 55
(or valued as 4 if going low).
Best possible low hand is all face cards = 0
(or valued as 50 if going high).
Suits do not matter, except for ace of spades as noted above.
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Once players have drawn their cards, they arrange them in the order they want to reveal them and, once set, CANNOT change the order. Players place their cards face down in a pile on the table. All players reveal their top card at the same time, a round of betting follows. All players reveal the second card at the same time, a round of betting follows. This continues until all players have only 1 card face down.
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At this point, it might be impossible to tell who is going high and who is going low, which makes this game more fun.
-A player may have revealed 4 face cards (for 0 or 40) and the last card is a 10, making him go high with a total of 50.
-A player may have revealed 2 face cards and 2 aces (for 2 or 42) and the last card is a 3, making him go low for a total of 5.
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Before the last card is revealed, all players declare high or low or both. Again, a player going both ways MUST WIN both ways. Should they lose or tie in one direction, they lose in both directions.
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