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The rules of the games

Three games are played at Patch-Patch, all with the same play chips. Each page below is the full set of rules for one of them, written from the game's own code: the betting structure, who acts when, how hands are made and how the pot is paid.

Patch-Patch is the game this site is named after: 12 cards, three boards, three Omaha hands and one pot, with pot-only betting, for two or three players. If you know Omaha you already know how each board plays; the new part is the split of your cards and the scoop. NL Hold'em and PL Omaha are the classics, at 6-max tables.

Whatever the game, hands rank the same way: the hand rankings page has the chart, how ties are broken and the odds of each hand.

  • Patch-Patch rules

    The deal, the arrangement, the three boards, pot-only betting with worked examples, the showdown, splits and the scoop.

  • NL Hold'em rules

    Two cards each, five on the board, the best five of seven, and any bet up to your whole stack.

  • PL Omaha rules

    Four cards each, exactly two of them with three from the board, and bets up to the size of the pot.