Bomb pot suggestions?
Hi!
I'm thinking of adding bomb pots into my home games, occasionally at least.
We sometimes do the 2-7 game, and a variation we call 'pineapple' (NLHE but with 3 cards, and you fold one card when the action is on you on the flop).
Anyway, I know how bomb pots work, but I recently bought some new Copag cards and got a bomb pot oversized chip aswell.
I'm looking for any fun ideas to implement this chip into the bomb pot?
At first I thought whoever wins the pot also wins the chip, and can use it to activate a bomb pot when they want - but that might be a bit too crazy?
I was thinking of having a bomb pot every hour or 45 minutes.
Any ideas and suggestions will be appreciated!
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We play every orbit plus 1, so the button moves around. We have a bomb pot button that is an old dealer button with a sticker on it of a bomb. We also do bomb pots every time there is a chop. We do double board NLHE.
We play with a dealer button and a dice. When the dealer button hit the guy with the dice he can choose a game, then the dice move the opposite direction from the button.
We play Omaha(4-5 cards), pineapple (3-5 cards), dbl board omaha bomp pot, Switch etc
I like the idea of rewarding the bomb pot winner with the choice of when the next bomb pot is. It rewards action and bluffs in a game that can otherwise reward nut-hunting. But you do have to be careful about having too many bomb pots. Depends on your players, obviously, but I think it works best when bomb pots are fun, exceptional hands, and if every other hand is an automatic $25 dollars out of your stack in a 2/5NL game, it just feels like you're playing 10/25NL with 2/5NL stacks and action often adjusts accordingly.
I think bomb pot every orbit+1 is the most elegant solution, both in terms of spreading the love with the button and in making sure the bomb pots are well spaced out. But if you could figure out a way to have someone win a bomb chip in a way that doesn't completely "blow up" the game (HA! Get it?!?!), that'd be dope too.
Our game did bomb pots every hour. It ended up giving the same person the button a lot, so we added dice. The dealer rolls for the button. The guy that has the button holds on to the dice until after the bombs is over and the button goes back to them when regular play starts again.
I play in a game with a bomb pot chip. The way the chip works is whoever wins the bomb pot, wins the chip, and during bomb pots the chip acts as the dealer button. First hand is a bomb pot and players draw cards for the chip, which also doubles as winning the button for the first regular hand.
