The Rules of Neighborhood Poker According to Hoyle

382 Pages·1990·10.74 MB·English

by  Stewart Wolpin

THE RULES
OF NEIGHBORHOOD
POKER
ACCORDING TO
HOYLE®
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THE RULES
OF NEIGHBORHOOD
POKER
ACCORDING TO
HOYLE®
STEWART WOLPIN
NEW CHAPTER PRESS I New York
Copyright © 1990 by Stewart Wolpin
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any
form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including
photocopying, without permission from the publisher. All inquiries
should be addressed to New Chapter Press Inc., 381 Park Avenue
South, Suite 1122, New York, New York 10016.
First printing March 1990
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 89-91966
ISBN: 0-942257-19-7
Designer: Stanley S. Drate/Folio Graphics Co. Inc.
Copy Editor: Brigid Mast
Front cover design: Michael Olson
Manufactured in the United States of America
Hoyle® is a registered trademark of Brown & Bigelow, Inc.,
St. Paul, Minnesota, and is used in this book with that company's
permission and endorsement.
To my father, Sheldon
—who should be a poker player—
and to my mother, Edith, who is.
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgments / xi
Preface / xv
Introduction / xix
SECTION 1
POKER BASICS
1 The Poker Primer 5
Two's Company, Ten's A Crowd / 9
2 What You Play For 11
Ante Up / 13
Show Us Your Pairs / 15
Chipping In / 17
3 Betting With Your Head
(While All About You Are Losing
Theirs) 20
How to Bet / 24
Low Stakes Idiosyncrasies / 26
Bringing It All Back Home / 28
4 It's My Deck and I'll Deal
What I Want 35
God With a Deck of Cards / 38
The Art of the Deal / 40
Calling All Cards / 43
5 Talking Cards 47
6 Beer in the Fridge, Coat on the
Bed, Ass at the Table 50
7 Vinnie, Speed, Roy, Murray,
Felix and Oscar 57
8 Emily Post Played Poker? 66
9 Cliches, Truisms, and Old Wives'
Tales 72
10 Speaking in Poker Tongues 77
11 A Million Cockroaches Overnight 84
12 Man with the Ax, One-Eyed Jacks
and Deuces Wild 90
13 Share and Share Alike 93
Declare / 96
Being a Pig / 99
Other Split Variations / 103
Splitsville / 104
SECTION I I
THE GAMES
14 Five-Card Stud Games 111
High/Low With a Buy, Lowboy, Buy Your
Card/Substitution, Wild Kings, Do Ya,
Push, Pass the Trash
15 Seven-Card Stud 172

Roll Your Own, Control, The Bitch, High
Chicago, Black Mariah, Murder, Sevens
Take All, Follow the Queen/The Lady,
Low Hole, Baseball, N o Peek, Night
Baseball, Six-Card Variations
16 Draw 222
Spit in the Ocean, High/Low, Five and
Two
17 Community 241
Cincinnati, Criss Cross, Iron Cross,
Pyramid, The H (H-Bomb), Red &
Black, Bundles, Death Wheel, Texas
Hold 'Em
18 Guts 283

Indian, Monte Carlo, Two Plus One,
Shoes, Balls