Horse Board Game Rules

• Horse Board Game Rules
• Horse Race Board Game Rules

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How to Play Horse Racing Game with Cards

To begin you will need a standard deck of 52 playing cards. You need to remove the Kings as well as the Jokers for this game to work. The dealer will deal a card to each player until the entire deck has been dealt. Some players will receive more cards than others – which is fine. The horse markers are also placed on the start line indicated on the game board.

The game begins with each player rolling the dice to determine the horse # that will scratch. There are a total of four scratches and each scratch requires you to pay a fixed amount for the number of cards you hold that match the number on the dice. The dealer would also move the horse back to the amount stated on the board that reflects the number of scratch.

• 1st scratch is worth $0.05
• 2nd scratch is worth $0.10
• 3rd scratch is worth $0.15
• 4th scratch is worth $0.20

The money above is just a general idea. You can change the bets to whatever you like but be careful, the more players you have in the game the more costly a round can cost. Especially if some of the more common outcomes on the dice have been scratched.

As an example – assume the outcome of the dice totaled eight and you held two eights in your hand. If this was the first scratch you would discard your two eights and pay $0.10 into the pot and move the horse to the first scratch mark indicated on the board. If this was the 2nd scratch, the amount would be $0.20 and so on. The horse would move to the 2nd scratch marker.

Once all of the scratches are done you can begin the game. Each player will take a turn rolling the dice. If the outcome of the dice is the same number as a horse that was scratched in the previous round, that player has to pay the pot the amount of the scratch as indicated on the board. If the outcome of the dice is one of the horses that wasn’t scratched, you move that horse up one spot.

This continues until one of the horses has reached the finish line.

When this happens you will need to collect the money and divide it into four, since there are four cards in play that match the number of the horse. Each player holding one of the cards wins 1/4 of the prize. If a player holds two or more of the same cards they will win 1/4 for each card in their hand.

Each horse has a different number of spaces to move before reaching the finish line. For example the #2 horse only has three spots, while the #7 horse needs to hit 8 times before it wins. This is because it is significantly more difficult to roll a two than it is a seven. The board takes into account the probability of the outcome of the dice.

Introduction

The games described on this page are mixed poker games in which several different poker variants are played in a fixed sequence. They could be thought of as equivalent to the pentathlon in athletics: success requires skill and experience in all the variants included. To ensure fairness, a complete round of each game is played, every player having one chance to deal (or to have the dealer button) before the table moves on to the next game in the sequence. The names of the games are acronyms indicating which variants are played and in what order.

These formats are commonly used for tournaments, both face to face and on line. Unlike the home game of dealer's choice, once the game has begun the players have no choice about which variants to play and in what order.

H.O.R.S.E

The most famous of these mixed games is H.O.R.S.E in which the five games are:

• Omaha/8
• Razz
• Seven-Card Stud
• Eight or Better (Seven-Card Stud High-Low)

Normally these are all played as limit games. The two shared card games Hold'em and Omaha are played with blinds and the three stud games with antes and a compulsory bring-in bet as usual.

If there are more than seven players at the table, the last player(s) in order (the dealer and if necessary the player to dealer's right) sit out for the seven-card stud games, to avoid the possibility that the deck will run out. Since a complete round of each variant is played, everyone at the table will sit out the same number of hands during these rounds.

An alternative format is sometimes used in casinos, in which the game is changed every 30 minutes when a new house dealer comes to the table.

C.H.O.R.S.E and C.H.O.R.S.E.L

These games are similar to H.O.R.S.E. but with the addition of one or two extra variants. The C stands for Crazy Pineapple and the L for Lowball, which in this case is California or Ace-to-Five Lowball.

R.O.E., H.O.E, H.O.S.E, S.H.O.E.

These are shorter (or more quickly cycling) games similar to H.O.R.S.E but involving only three or four of the variants.

Horse Board Game Rules

Eight Game Mix

This version was introduced in 2008 and was offered as event 2 in the 2010 World Series of Poker, and is also available online at Pokerstars. It is sometimes known as T.H.O.R.S.E.H.A. and consists of eight variants played in the following sequence:

Horse Race Board Game Rules

• Limit 2-7 Triple Draw
• Limit Texas Hold 'em
• Limit Omaha High-Low 8 or better
• Limit Razz
• Limit Seven-card Stud
• Limit Seven card Stud Hi-Lo Eight or better
• No limit Texas Hold'em
• Pot limit Omaha High (PLO)