The innovation that I believe to be my own is the mechanism that makes the game work as a real game while at the same time including the stripping aspect.
The reason for creating this mechanism was that the only mechanism (or rule) I knew for strip poker was boring: there were no money chips and so no betting, the losers of a hand had to take off a piece of their clothing, and that was all. To make strip poker work also as a real game, I came up with the following mechanism. It can easily be adopted to any other kind of game that uses money chips or anything comparable (hence the title for this blog entry).
The Mechanism:
Any player may, at any time, request more chips from another player. The need for this obviously usually arises when the player needs more chips to bet (it can be ruled that this is the only situation when the request may be made).The player must request more chips from the player with most chips. Since counting the chips would be boring, an estimate is enough. If it is unclear who has the most chips, the requesting player may choose.
The player from whom chips are requested divides their chips into piles (no counting is necessary, and the piles need not be equal). The requesting player then takes one of the piles, leaving the rest. Then the requesting player undresses a piece of clothing (or accepts a dare or task from the player from whom chips were taken).
Texas Hold'em Strip Poker With Chips
Use rules for regular Texas Hold'em, for example from here. Some modifications follow, as well as a digested version of the rules. The above Mechanism can be used at any time.Set up
Required: a regular deck of 52 cards, no jokers, a dealer marker, ("money") chips, enthusiastic players. There is no monetary value for the chips, obviously.
Rules for playing the game
Place blinds:
Small blind (next player left from the Dealer): one chip.
Big blind (next player left from the small blind player): two chips.
Deal each player two (hole) cards.
Preflop:
Starting with the player left from the big blind: fold, call, or raise (no limit), or check at the end of round.
Flop:
Deal one card face down and three cards face up.
Next player with hand left from the dealer starts betting. No limits for bets.
The Turn:
Deal one card face down, one face up.
No limits for bets.
The River:
Deal one card face down, one face up.
No limits for bets.
Showdown:
Hand ranking copied from the aforementioned site:
Pass the Dealer marker to the next player and start next hand.
