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Short Deck Texas Hold’em

Forced Money

The game is played with a button and blinds.

Dealing Procedure

A deck of 36 cards is used, where all of the deuces, treys, fours, and fives have been removed, leaving a deck with sixes, sevens, eights, nines, tens, Jacks, Queens, Kings, and Aces in the four suits.

Each player is dealt two cards face down, followed by a round of betting. Three community cards are placed face up. This is followed by a round of betting. One additional community card is placed face up. This is followed by a round of betting.

One additional community card is placed face up. This is followed by a round of no-limit betting. This is followed by a showdown.

Evaluating the Showdown

The best high five-card hand wins the pot. In this game, a flush outranks a full house. Note that the lowest possible straight in this game is 9876A (the “short deck wheel”) with the AKQJT (broadway) as the highest straight.

Notes

This game is also called Six-Plus Texas Holdem.

It was played with no-limit betting at BARGE 2019.

The game is sometimes played where three-of-a-kind beats a straight.1

  1. Six-Plus hold’em, Wikipedia. ↩