Hi, everyone. I just came up with this. It's like basic poker mixed with trading card games (please don't flame me for this, lol). Maybe it's already been done before but here is all the information:
I'm thinking of calling it Poker Battle, or Battle Poker.
Rules:
1. Dealer deals out 5 cards to all players. At the start of each turn, players draw cards until they have 5. Of course, this doesn't matter on the first turn.
2. Each turn, a player can do ONE of the following things:
- discard a DIAMOND card and pick a new card from the top of the deck.
- discard a SPADE card and pick a card from another person's hand to send to the discard pile.
- that person can then choose one of their CLUB cards to discard instead of letting the other player choose which card to send to the discard pile.
- the player discarding the SPADE cannot look at the cards of the player they are attacking.
- discard a HEART card and take the card that was most previously discarded.
(all cards in the discard pile are face up, and players should always shuffle their hands after taking a card from the discard pile or from another player)
3. Players can choose to PASS on each turn instead of discarding cards.
4. Players can choose to SHOW their hand at any time. This ends the game for that player. Once everyone has shown their hands the game is over and the best hand wins. If one round goes by where everyone passes and no one shows, then everyone must show and the game is over.
So what do people think? Is this a dumb idea? Or an already thought of idea? Keep in mind, I don't know a whole lot about poker, just what hands beat what.
