"Hot Poker Seat" Side Bet

"Hot Poker Seat" is a side bet attached to Texas Hold Em.

Quote: Indian Country Today Media Network.com

You need to use the two cards you’re holding and three of the five on the board in trying for a straight, flush, full house, four of a kind, or a straight or royal flush.

A straight brings $10 for a $1 bet, a flush returns $15, a full house $25, while four of a kind bring back $100, a straight flush earns $200, and the royal flush brings a grand in the form of a bill with a photo of President Grover Cleveland on it.

Would you bet it?

I don't like side bets in the poker room. Certainly this would slow the game down even more if the dealer had to check for and take bets before starting to deal the hand.

Play already gets a little crazy when there are bad-beat jackpots and high-hand promotions. If this side bet requires the player to not fold before the river, play will get really crazy. If the player can fold and still win the side bet, where do their cards go between folding and the completion of the hand for resolution? Also, I'm sure players making this side bet would easily give away information about their hand that other players could use to their advantage.

I'll be live with this side bet in my casino in the next 60 days. The side bet is made prior to cards being dealt. You do have to play to the showdown unless everyone folds to you prior to that at my place.

We are planning some big promotions, aside from the side bet payouts, for players of this bet.


ZCore13

Quote: Zcore13

I'll be live with this side bet in my casino in the next 60 days. The side bet is made prior to cards being dealt. You do have to play to the showdown unless everyone folds to you prior to that at my place.

We are planning some big promotions, aside from the side bet payouts, for players of this bet.


ZCore13

Thanks ZCore. Please keep us updated. Blue Eagle brings up some other potential bumps in the road. I am interested in how they are addressed.

Not original at all. The same thing as the side bet in Let it Ride. The Red Rock put in a side bet based on the flop that was the same as the Pairplus bet in Three Card Poker. It didn't last. Side betting, it would seem, just doesn't appeal to poker players.

Quote: Wizard

..Side betting, it would seem, just doesn't appeal to poker players.

Nope, just prop bets.

Quote: BlueEagle

Play already gets a little crazy when there are bad-beat jackpots and high-hand promotions.

Ditto.

The only thing good about this side bet is that it's voluntary. I.E. You can opt out.

Frankly, I'd like to opt-out of Bad Beat jackpots and High Hand promotions...

Quote: DJTeddyBear

Ditto.

The only thing good about this side bet is that it's voluntary. I.E. You can opt out.

Frankly, I'd like to opt-out of Bad Beat jackpots and High Hand promotions...

Agreed, and I've even hit a BBJP for a $5600 payoff winning hand. Ironically I played a small 35 player tournament yesterday and had the hands in it qualify, I'd have won the HH of the day with a 6 high straight flush.

P.S. I placed fourth for a $90 profit.