The name of the game is called Puppet (or as I like to call it, puppet of death)

You start with a fixed ante, in our case tonight $5.

Everyone receives 2 down cards and antes their $5. A seperate two cards (belonging to the Puppet) are also in play.

Everyone decides whether they are in or out by the following: Everyone places a single chip in their palm, and counts "1...2....3...go" and if they are in, they drop the chip down to the table.

Those who are in run their cards out hold'em style against each other, and the puppet. If you win, you get the pot. If you lose, you pay the pot. The game ends when a single player volunteers in the game and defeats the puppet. If the puppet defeats everyone, everyons pays the pot. Whoever wins gets the pot. Simple concept, I think.

pbdrunks gave us this blessed game, and it basically dictated everyone's night in the homegame. I was immediately stuck $5,000 when my A4o could not beat the puppet's 93o (the puppet also defeated yellowsub's J4 in the same hand). Yellowsub proceeded to win the next pot against the puppet, making back for his losses. I am still stuck $5k. Gah!

Dont ask me how a $5 ante five ways turns into a $5k pot, but it happens and it's nasty. Somehow I got back even on the night thanks to Gut and 5/5/15 NLHE/PLO (greatest feeling ever). One player in our home game was up $8,000 and ended the night down a few thousand, all thanks to Puppet.

Anyways, if seeing your friends lose large sums of money makes you very happy, learn the game Puppet. It is the most evil thing ever invented.

btw the OP sounds confusing, let me explain

hero is dealt AJo. hero places 1 chip in palm. the pot is $50.

everyone says "1...2...3...go" and u drop ur chip (denomination doesnt matter).

2 other people drop their chip and table KQ and 44. The puppet hand is 83o.

The board runs out AT796 and the puppet scoops. everyone who played adds $50 to the pot.

the next hand, the pot is $200.

only one hero volunteers and shows TT. the puppet rolls over KK (wtf), the board runs low and hero must pay $200 to the pot.

the next hand, the pot is $400. Hero decides to give it a go with A9s, and another player comes in and plays with 77. The puppet has K3o.

The board runs 73329 and the guy with 77 wins $400, and hero with A9s must put $400 into the pot. the next hand, the pot is $400.

hope this explains it.

This game sounds sick fun

my brian just melted

sounds pretty great, except that theres noone to take out your rage on when the puppet wins

sounds like the holdem version of guts. when i was younger we did the same type of game with quarters instead of $5 and wound up having a few pots around $400 or $500. exponential growth is crazy

Wow that sounds like an awesome game.

Clayton = Burkman
Puppet = Parisyan

What is Guts?

This sounds like a good game. My f-ing father in law had me playing a game called "Goofus" this weekend, and it was excruciating.

Also he was drunk, and changing the rules as we played. Goofus is not a good game.

this game is actually a variant of the game "guts"..

dealer deals 3 down cards to each player, and two sets of 3 cards to himself, one he picks up the other leaves face down..any pair pretty much, or maybe ace high depending on how many people are playing you hold..1..2..3.."guts".

best hand scoops, and each person has to put in double the pot i believe, so if its 2$, each person puts in 4$..the pot is cleared when only one person is in the hand that doesn't drop his hand(similar to the other one, if you keep your hand you hold it, if you fold you simply drop it upon hearing 'guts'), and beats the dummy hand, or the hand the dealer doesn't pick when dealing himself two sets of 3 cards.

on that information, puppet > guts because of the variance of running out a holdem board versus 2 downcards, especially when everyone has to turn theirs up and must sweat their ace high holding for $4000 versus just flipping up 3 cards.

also we played 1 game of omaha puppet, and the variance in that sicko game is just off the face of the earth. we are trying to convince some highstakes ballers to come over and play a game of that, we are convinced we could get a live $100,000 pot of omaha puppet.

Am I missing something?
As with any game with massive pots and tiny antes/blinds, doesn't it make sense to wait for AA/KK/QQ/AK (if everyone else is playing loose and inflating pots) before going in?

Or am I missing the point and this is just something to play while drunk?

Does it make sense to only play AA in NLHE? Your post is borderline OOT-dumb, ducy?

My home game degenerates to this by the end of the night every single time. Its such a sick game.

Oh btw, nits have an ungodly edge in this game. You can pretty much just play aces and RAKE.

shitt i need to get up on this mayne

Its pretty hilarious when one guy gets run down by the puppet like 3 times in a row. This game is one of the most fun "******ed poker variants" out there, its so much different than any of the other games, no one knows whats going on, and its wild action.

Best played with sick gamblers or mouthbreathers.

Winnar!!! (except this is the extended version of Holdem Guts; in the original version of Guts you just have one card in the middle instead of running a 5 card board)

FTP needs to offer this

this is what makes the game have huge pots very frequently, btw, the fact that everyone must beat puppet for game to end

a glorious game I used to play as a kid

im so confused the puppet isnt actually a player but just a hand labled as "the puppet"