Comments on: Time Killers Pt 1 – Israeli Poker

By: Jacob P

Jacob P — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 19:24:54 +0000

Jacob P 04.21.10 at 7:29 am
Hi Jordan,
Thanks a lot for taking the time and responding to my question.
Read your description of the game and it is indeed accurate to what we play.
Being an Israeli, I’m filled with pride and joy to find out you named this poker variation “Israeli poker”…:)
But one thing is certain now, this is not Chinese poker, as one of my buddies claimed.
I liked your suggestions to the points and payout structure, when taking all 5 columns; it doubles up your points.
Jordan, can you explain the sentence “Deuces are wild. That’s also very important, for obvious reasons…” why is important, and how exactly are they wild? (acts as a Joker?)
So tell me Jordan, how did you find the game? Do you think it involves strategy? If you would have an application like that to play-on line would you try it and spend your time (money?) on it.
Will be happy to hear your feedbacks…

Thanks
Jacob P.

By: Jordan

Jordan — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 19:12:22 +0000

ASG, it might just be a variant I learned. But from experience, the wild card is awesome. It creates another layer to the game, since it isn’t as simple as just getting a wild and winning the hand. Once you get that wild, you need to figure out where it does the most good. Plus, as long as there are 2s in the deck, all possibilities are open.

By: ASG

ASG — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 18:18:26 +0000

I never heard of 2s being wild before.

By: Astin

Astin — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 14:43:33 +0000

They play this at my club while waiting for the tournament/cash to start. Not sure what they call it though.

By: lightning36

lightning36 — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 03:40:17 +0000

Ahh … I’ll stick with Crazy 8′s. At least I can try to kick my daughter’s butt with that game lol