Rules Of Iron Cross Poker

In Iron Cross Poker, each poker player is dealt five hole cards, and then five community cards are dealt one at a time followed by a betting round, exactly as in Cincinnati poker. But the community cards are dealt in a cross pattern with a center card (dealt last) and four other cards to its left, right, top, and bottom. Each player plays the best five-card poker hand he can make from his five hole cards plus the three cards from either the vertical arm or the horizontal arm of the cross. A common poker game variant is to make the center card wild, or the center card and all of the same rank wild. You can also make a better poker game by reducing the game to four betting rounds: one after the hole cards are dealt but before any community cards are, then another after the left and right cards of the cross are dealt at the same time, a third after the top and bottom cards of the cross are dealt, and a final betting round after the center card is dealt.