Seven-Twenty-Seven (poker)
A stud game (sort of), played only in home games, in which
each player is dealt a down card, followed by a round of betting,
and then one or more cards face up. Aces have a value of 1 or
11, face cards a value of , and all other cards have face value.
This is a split-pot game, with the object being to end up with
a total closest to 7 or 27. On each round, players can either
receive a further up card, or refuse further cards. After any
round in which no player takes a card, the players declare which
"way" they are going (7 or 27, sometimes called high
or low), and there is a showdown. (Sometimes there is one more
round of betting before the showdown.) In some versions, once
a player refuses up cards a certain number of times (say, three),
that player can no longer request further cards. The purpose
of this rule is that when a player is in a "lock"
(cannot lose) situation, that is, when he is the only one going
low, and there are more than one player going high, and who
have quit asking for up cards, the player with the lock can
prolong the betting by drawing cards to a point at which he
cannot hit without destroying his lock. In some games, being
on one side or the other of 7 or 27 (when no one has exactly
that total) wins over the other side. For example, in some games,
6 loses to 7, while in others, the reverse is true. The best
hand is some combination that adds up to 7, and includes two
aces, so that the hand also adds up to 27. This is a potential
scooping hand, but a hand with which a player must be careful
at declare time in a game in which the rules dictate that a
player who declares for both ways must clearly win both ways
(that is, cannot tie for either). While this is not really a
poker game, it is very popular in some home games (because it
has many of the elements of poker, including bluffing). Two-twenty-two
and three-thirty-three are similar games
Sex (poker) - 6 (the card, or the lowball hand). Heard in a
card room: He: "Do you like sex?" She: "Sure,
sex-four, sex-five..."
