UW Hold'em
Unleash Your Inner Maverick: Introducing the UW Hold'em Poker Game
Objective
Stay in the game for long term by holding coins.
In each hand, players collaboratively determine a position in sequence or "repeated numbers" to lose coins. All cards in a deck form a sequence. Players can protect him/herself from losing coins by betting coins to request a change of decision.
The objective of the winning player is not to survive every individual hand, but rather to win over the longer term by making psychologically and mathematically better decisions regarding when and how to propose or change.
Rules
At the beginning of a game, all players are issued with the same number of initial coins, e.g., 20.
A game goes in hands. The game ends when one or more players have lost all their coins.
A the beginning of each hand, each player is dealt one card that is visible to all other players except him/herself.
When a hand starts, one player (typically the player who is the first to react in the previous round) makes a proposal; each player in turn decides to skip or change; each player can change no more than 1 time; the decision of each position in sequence and the "repeated numbers" can be proposed or changed to no more than 1 time. Any player who makes a change must pay 1 coin, and gets the 1 coin back if the player was at the position in sequence before his/her change, or holds a number same with another player before his/her change and the change was from "repeated numbers".
At the end of a hand, the player who was at the collaboratively determined position in sequence, or players whoevers hold a number same with another player if the decision was "repeated numbers", lose 2 coins.
The recommended number of players is between 5 and 6.
Examples
Strategies
Beginners: Essentially it's a game of probability. You want to play in a way that your chances of lossing is minimized.
Advanced: Now you know the beginners strategy, and you can ace your game by leveraging your opponents' actions.
Expert: You know what your opponents know about their opponents, and you play it accordingly. You do not follow the same strategy by randomizing your play from time to time.