I’ll give it a shot… but keep in mind the only thing I’ve found with more “insider” slang than poker is text messaging between 13 year old girls and their BFFs…
Piece be piece:
“Dealer’s Choice” just means whoever is dealing the game can call whatever game they would like to play… the deal rotates, usually each hand
“Lebanese Southern Cross” is a game name, I’ve never heard of Lebanese version, it probably just means there’s some extra rule involved… Southern Cross is a lot like Hold’em in that you have your own cards, then there are shared cards in the middle. The center shared cards are broken into two sets and arranged as a cross… so five one way, and five the other, intersecting in the middle and you can only use one full line. It looks like he dealt out only three to a side though, so maybe that’s Lebanese Southern Cross???
Then what he says is a little different than what you have… he says “40/80’s the ante, fives and twos are wild” – An ante is a forced bet for the two players to the left of the dealer… so the first ante, usually called a small blind, is 40, the second ante, the big blind, is 80. Fives and twos in your hand or in the shared cards can be any rank and suit you want them to be to make the best hand. Other players can use those cards as a different rank and suit for their hands.
“no raising before the button” – the dealer is passed a button just to show they’re the dealer and to keep track of where you are in the rotation… so here it means noone can raise the bet initially during the first round until the action has made it all the way around to the dealer, you can either call the 80 that is the big blind, or fold…
“I don’t want no show boating, no coffee-housing, no auntie’s drawers” – show boating means the same here as anywhere else, except it also includes things like taking your time to roll your cards when you know you have a winner, coffee-housing is talking up your opponent trying to throw them off your hand, making excessive conversation technically about the hand but just as a distraction… I’ve never hard of auntie’s drawers (may be ante’s though, just due to context)
“Minimum 3 aces to start” – just means you need a hand of at least three aces or better to start the betting in any round, not sure if they consider aces higher than kings or lower than twos in this case
“minimum bet one ton” – never heard of it, I would think from their game, minimum bet would be one big blind, or 80 in this case
Maybe someone can fill in the blanks from there…
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