Can this game be fixed?
This was inspired by a bad idea where i basically scrapped the entire original idea for something interesting. I don't think you should play a game like this with real money when you are more than 2 players though due to the high collusion risk, i have been trying to find ways to fix this but couldn't come up with anything particularly good.
Each player is given 3 hole cards.
Betting round 1
Each player is given 2 more hole cards.
Betting round 2
Each player shares one of their hole cards with the player to the left.
Betting round 3
Each player shares one of their hole cards with the player to the right
betting round 4
The best hand wins the pot (same hand rankings as standard NLHE).
Only players who have not folded will share a hole card if they remain. Once a player has shared a card said card will remain usable another player even if they end up folding later.
When hole cards are shared they will remain hidden until all remaining players for the pot have selected a card.
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Of course you could simply switch to only having a single card drawn from the deck instead when there are 3+ players left.
Alternatively for 3 players after round 2 you can simply have each player share one of their cards which would still make a total of 7 cards to choose from (would result in one less betting round).
Does
"share" = give
or
"share" = make it become a community card for both players ?
Regardless of which one you mean, the collusion problem is indeed an obstacle here. You'd have to find players who know and trust each other.
All rules can be fixed up to a certain level of playability, because in general there's a lot of space for countless variants for each particular rule.
There are multiple ways to make collusion less viable but that involves taking away abilities for players to make choices such as having you share a card randomly selected from your hand instead of picking what you think is most advantageous.
Share means that it becomes a community card for both players.
Regardless of which one you mean, the collusion problem is indeed an obstacle here.
Collusion can be a problem even in NLHE, especially tournaments.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkdYdiJ8...
It is a bit annoying when there is some interesting poker variant that cannot easily be scaled to more players (this isn't really that though).
