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Originally Posted by deuceblocker
I assume they still play more or less standard games in the $2K/$4K game with big bet rounds and Doyle and so on.
The Big Game has included the most outré variants since they came into vogue. They’ll play anything in that game, so long as the regs believe it’s +EV. The game lineup is heavily negotiated at the outset—and then again (quietly and via text) anytime a new player sits. Like most casino mix games, the regs are always trying to figure out who plays which games the worst and push for those games to be included, in addition to the games the regs play the best. Often those are the “crazy” games.
If a TOTAL fish wants to sit, they may even scrap the entire game lineup and negotiate a new one to give the fish the illusion of equity. They’ll even agree to put the fish’s game in the rotation more than once. (So if the fish wants to play super stud hi, they’ll put multiple super stud hi plaques in the rotation in exchange for the fish agreeing to play whatever other games the regs think they kill.)
When people brought badacey and badeucey into the mid-to-high stakes games, I was told they’d already been introduced into the Big Game months prior, and someone told me at one point that one of the Big Game regs “invented” razzdugi. I have no idea if any of that is true or whether it’s totally ********, but I do wish someone one try to document the histories of the development of these games for posterity.