Anyone familiar with this variant? What are the rules?

Lol wtf. "Regular poker" is just the FOTM, I.e. holdem and omaha. You don't want to be mainstream now, do you?

It is NL+ 2 cards.

So Texas Holdem with 4 hole cards?

I never follow NVG/BBV closely, so anyone know where this was first coined? I would like to know how someone would define this game as "regular" poker.

I think "regular poker" probably refers to whatever poker variant or variants the person using the term is familiar with.

To the best of my knowledge, there is no one particular widespread poker game that is called "regular poker." If there is, it's currently "Texas hold 'em."

Buzz

Actually first coined in TMZ.

When I heard people refer to "regular poker", they most often talk about a classic form that was played (and in still played but less popular) back in the time: either 7-card stud (high only) or 5-card draw.

Those are old timers.

Buzz

High-Low Regular refers to 7 card stud split between high and low with no qualifier on the low side, as opposed to something like Stud 8 which is the same game but with an 8 high qualifier on the low side.

That's what I thought of when I heard it figured you wanted some strategy for the rarely played game. Buzz's (and C4C's) initial reply also makes sense.

It can also often mean "poker with no wild cards/rules". If you're playing in something like a dealer's choice home game and somebody says "lets just play regular poker" they mean not to have wild cards or outlandish rules and to play a more standard form of the game.

Yes, but not only them. Players who learned poker through family games for instance.

Yeah generally speaking you are right, but if you would look in NVG (I don't blame you for not following those 'tards), you would see this isn't clearly the case. It's some inside joke involving Michael Phelps. Some people have referred to the game as "NL+2 cards", but that's all I can find. That still might be part of the "joke". After I asked in the thread, I got possibly one helpful response and one standard NVG trash response:

I'm unemployed and all, but **** if I would waste my life reading everything in NVG, I would be on this site 24/7 and feel like even a bigger loser than I already am.

I follow NVG somewhat close(not as close as I used to reading everything basically) and the NL+2cards has not got anything to do with "regular poker" as far as I can understand.

There's a thread in NVG about Michael Phelps's poker playing, linking to a TMZ article, which includes in its clueless comment thread:
And this is now a thing people say. Regular.

NL+2 cards came from a spoof isildur blog post about Phil Galfond after Phil wrote a real one about Isildur.

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/29...lfond-1239498/

lol. Sometimes I'm glad I'm old.