The Home Game

Home games vary wildly in quality. Choose one that's to weak, and you'll find yourself playing five-card draw, hoping to catch one of the twos, threes, one-eyed jacks, suicide kings, or queens looking away from the flower that the dealer, already three sheets to the wind, has selected as the wild card. Stumble upon a game that's too tough, and you'll be risking your mortgage payment against aggressive sharps who have taken the night off from their usual $50/100 pot-limit game at the local Indian casino.