Prop bet= Proposition bet
As if playing poker wasn’t gambling enough, a lot of poker players, myself included like to spice up the game with some additional bets to keep the game juicy.
If you have ever watched the early seasons of high stakes poker you would have seen them making some references to prop bets and the one that was most visable to the viewer was the seven deuce bounty which meant that any player that won a pot with 72 in their hand got paid $500 from the other players at the table.
The 72 bounty game is one that shows up on occasion at the home game. Not everyone is a fan of the game though as it can cause some pretty hectic hands with players trying to bluff like crazy in order to win the bounty bet and often bluffing off a huge part of their stack in order to do it.
Other games that show up from time to time are the suits where 4 players will take a suit each and if the flop comes all that players suit they get paid. A scarier version would be the one Ivey and Zigmund were playing red/black for $50,000 a flop as there will always be more of one of those cards on a three card flop.
Ontario and the Rapper often play a high low pair game with each player taking the high or low cards Ace through 6 or 8 though King with 7 being a push and if a flop come 2 of those cards there is a payoff, three of a kind double the payoff.
I find these games keep things a bit more lively and keeps you more interested in the game and adds another level of thinking when you start playing red/black for sure.
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