I played poker with a group recently and they were trying to make bs wild cards before each hand, like fives and eights are wild, and other stupid shit. I just folded every hand and somehow I’m the asshole. I didn’t complain or even comment, I just folded. Apparently it’s a fun way to play for some people, I think it’s stupid af and had no interest in participating.
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pishadoot@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks agoWhat kind of nonsense poker has that many wild cards
Waraugh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
pishadoot@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
It’s dumb af if you like playing poker. If you like playing card games with a 52 card deck like crazy 8s or whatever, it can be fun.
Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
The childish fun police are now en route to your location. Your crime: seriosity! Your punishment: 260 card pickup. Drop and give me 260!
pishadoot@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
No judgement, I can see how it came off that way though.
I like crazy 8s and rummy and stuff like that, but they’re in a different category of fun.
Poker is a game of broken information, where you try to decode your opponent’s hand based off of their actions in relation to the board state and future possibilities, and what you know of their own personal style.
Wild cards introduce RNG that throws the entire core game loop of poker out the window. People are free to enjoy it but it’s extremely rare for people who play the game regularly to want wild cards in their games. I can’t think of anyone in all my years of playing to be honest but I’m sure they exist. I would never play a game with cash with wild cards, what’s the point? And I can’t imagine wanting to play a free game with wild cards with anyone but kids.
Wild cards+cash, I might as well play craps or any other gambling game in the casino, and then at least I get the fun of watching crazy superstitious people. Poker is NOT gambling, but there is an element of chance of course.
Hope that helps clear it up.
Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
The kind of nonsense poker that 14-year olds play with a deck made of four or five different (and not necessarily complete) packs of cards. That’s what kind. It was mostly for pennies and therefore silly fun. This game was different.
pishadoot@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Was it mostly for laughs and pennies or did you lose £20 in a single hand like your OP said