Tonight marked the triumphant return of Lyndon! After a little over a six months away from the Card Night table, our good friend Lyndon was able to join us once again for the typical Tuesday antics.
He had a good night, and would have gone home a big winner had it not been for a new game Paul called…
It was just before 10:00 p.m., time for one more game, and Phil announced that it would be Texas Hold ’em. Paul, who was on Phil’s left, said, “Ah, there won’t be enough time for me to call the new game I have.” So Phil graciously passed the deal to Paul, and Paul called his new game: Four-Three.
It was a wild one.
Four-Three is a pot game with a structure similar to Bloody 7s. To create the first pot, everyone antes a dollar.
Each player is dealt four hole cards. Starting with the player to left of the dealer button, each player declares whether he’s playing or folding. Once everyone has declared, all cards are turned up. Beginning with the player to the left of the button, each player who hasn’t folded is dealt three cards face-up off the top of the deck. Once all players have their seven cards, the pot is simply split between the player with the high hand and the player with the low hand. All other players who did not fold have to “match the pot”. (That is, the losing players have to contribute the total amount of the current pot to the next pot.) The dealer button moves to the left, and play begins again (with all players back in the game, whether they folded the previous hand or not).
The game ends when there are no losing players.
On the first hand of Four-Three that Paul dealt, with the pot at $7.75, six players chose to play their hands! That meant that two players split the high and low, and four players lost, meaning the next pot was $31.00. ($7.75 times 4 players = $31.00)
Play continued for several more hands, with three players contesting each of the pots; two of them would split the pot, and the other one would match it for the next pot. Then four players were in a pot, after which the pot grew to almost $60.00! Play finally ended when only two players chose to play, each of them taking half the pot with either the high or low.
The game definitely defined several players’ overall results for the night.
Some interesting stats:
After attending 22 Card Nights in 2010, Glen is dead even for the year ($0.00) with a record of 11-11.
Meanwhile, after attending 51 Card Nights ever, Jason is dead even lifetime ($0.00) with a record of 26-25.
More interesting stats:
This is the first time in recorded Card Night history that two pairs of players each had the same results. (Mark and Mike each won $20.00; Phil and Glen each lost $60.00.)
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