Pass the Deal
Your go-to catalog for rotating dealer poker game nights.
Basic 5-Card Stud
Classic 5-card stud structure: one hidden card, four exposed cards, and a betting round after each deal stage.
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Fast draw-and-discard card game where each player holds 3 cards and scores only one suit. Players can knock to trigger a final turn for everyone else before reveal.
5 Card Draw
Classic draw poker variant: players receive 5 private cards, bet, draw replacement cards, then bet again before showdown.
Blackjack - First Natural Ends the Game
Pass-the-deal blackjack variant where each hand is played against the dealer/house, but the session objective is to be the first player to hit a natural blackjack.
Single-Hand Texas Hold'em
Pass-the-deal adaptation of Texas Hold'em where everyone antes, one hand is played from pre-flop through river, and the game ends immediately after that hand.
Guts
A comparing card game related to poker where players simultaneously declare 'in' or 'out' each round. The key danger: if you stay in and lose, you match the entire pot — causing it to grow rapidly. Uses a rotating card count (3 → 2 → 1 → 3...) and a dummy hand to prevent uncontested wins.
Baseball
A wild-card-heavy 7-card stud poker variant themed on baseball: 3s and 9s are wild (three strikes/outs, nine innings), and an up-card 4 earns a free extra hole card (four balls). Pots grow large due to the wild cards and mandatory pot-buy decisions on open 3s. As poker author Irwin Steig noted, Baseball is 'the choice of dealers who want sparkling action and big pots.'
Okinawa
A trick-taking gambling card game with three separate pots. Players are dealt 3 cards, can exchange any or all of them, then compete in 3 tricks — each one claiming one of the three pots. Trump is determined by a random cut of the deck. Players who stay in but lose tricks must match the pots they didn't win, causing pot growth across rounds. Players may fold to avoid the match penalty.
Last Hand
A passive, dealer-run wind-down game designed to close out a night of cards. Players ante into two separate pots — low and high — then sit back as the dealer reveals trump and deals everyone 5 cards face-up. No decisions, no betting rounds, no bluffing. The lowest trump card at the table wins the low pot; the best poker hand wins the high pot. Simple, quick, and a perfect send-off.