The New Hold'em

I thought that it would be interesting to come up with a new kind of poker. Texas Hold’em is great and everything, but it would not hurt to mix things up a little bit and try something new.

The first thing would be the addition of a wild card in a poker game. I know a lot of traditionalists may not like this idea, but imagine how interesting it would make the new game. You could use jokers maybe, if someone had a joker in their pocket cards they can change that card to whatever they wanted to make the best possible hand. Now that would throw someone’s game off.

This is not an entirely new idea, but I would allow people to ask their opponent what cards they had after the hand was done. They would only a have set amount of times that they could ask, but again this could make the game a lot more interesting.

How about this for an idea? During each hand one player is given one extra card. I mean it is possible for a player to have one extra and still not have the nut hand, just really unlikely. Here’s another element, if someone wins a hand against someone with an extra card in their hand, they get double the chips from their opponent.

So when it’s poker night next try out these modifications to the game of Texas Hold’em and see how they work out. You never know you may actually win for a change.