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Poker rollout

September 22nd, 2008

In poker games, some variation of pay has a phase of game which is known as rollout or roll ‘em out. Although it has some similarities with roll your own situation, the two are distinctly different and using them synonymously is wrong.

Those poker games which are played with a rollout stage differs from stud poker games in both game play rule and strategies as all the players are dealt up cards with sometimes an option for a drawing card stage. This allows the players to know their hand value at the earliest stage of the game and this knowledge of strength of the hand affects betting action. The only point of similarity with stud poker is that revealing of the cards to the players takes place one by one as each round of betting progresses.

Variation of the rollout poker games depends on at what time the players are permitted to select which cards they intend to expose. If played according to choose before, the players are required to organize their cards in order before any betting action. Otherwise, players can start betting action and in subsequent rounds make their choice of cards taking into account the information received from preceding rounds of play. If played according to choose after, rollout can either be at the same time or done in turn by the players.

A case in point is the game of show five played according to simultaneous choose-after rollout. Here each layer receives seven cards before any betting action and this is followed by five rounds of betting. Each betting round is opened by the players revealing one of their cards at the same time. In high/low split poker games rollout is a frequent phase of play and the players’ choice of cards to be revealed is done strategically to conceal their intention of which half of the pot they are intending to play for winning.

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