Games

Mb2 can deal seventy-four named variations of poker and a ridiculous number of variants thereof. This includes common ones like Texas Hold’em, Omaha and Seven Card Stud as well as lesser known games like Badugi, Courchevel and Big O.

The BARGE Rule Book has rules to almost all of the named poker games mb2 deals. The exceptions are Sack, Regular Pineapple, Redrum, Dealer’s Choice and Dealer’s Die.

At the time of this writing, the precise number of named games is seventy-four. That number comes from the source code to mb2:

pub static GAMES: LazyLock<[GameInfo; 74]> = LazyLock::new(|| {
    [
        // Hold'ems
        HOLD_EM.done(),
        IRISH.done(),
        HOLD_EM_SHORT.done(),
        CRAZY_PINE.done(),
        CRAZY_PINE_8.done(),
        HOLDEM_8.done(),
        LAZY_PINE.done(),
        LAZY_PINE_8.done(),
        REGULAR_PINE.done(),
        REGULAR_PINE_8.done(),
        RIO_BRAVO.done(),
        HOLD_EM_CRAYFISH.done(),
        GREEK_HOLD_EM.done(),
        // Omahas
        OMAHA.done(),
        OMAHA_8.done(),
        OMAHA_SHORT.done(),
        BIG_O.done(),
        BINGLAHA.done(),
        DRAMADUGI.done(),
        DRAMAHA.done(),
        DRAMAHA_49.done(),
        DRAMAHA_ZERO.done(),
        DRAMAHA_21.done(),
        DRAMAHA_3D.done(),
...

The 74 shows that we’re populating the GAMES constant with seventy-four elements, but it’s counting—for example—Hold'em and Hold'em High/Low with an Eight Qualifier as two separate games.

It’s also making the distinction between Crazy Pineapple and Lazy Pineapple, yet collectively those two games count as three (and not four!) because it has a separate entry for Lazy Pineapple with an eight qualifier and Lazy Pineapple without an eight qualifier, but does not do the same for Crazy Pineapple.

Click the triangle to see the entire list of the games mb2 has internal names for.

pub static GAMES: LazyLock<[GameInfo; 74]> = LazyLock::new(|| {
    [
        // Hold'ems
        HOLD_EM.done(),
        IRISH.done(),
        HOLD_EM_SHORT.done(),
        CRAZY_PINE.done(),
        CRAZY_PINE_8.done(),
        HOLDEM_8.done(),
        LAZY_PINE.done(),
        LAZY_PINE_8.done(),
        REGULAR_PINE.done(),
        REGULAR_PINE_8.done(),
        RIO_BRAVO.done(),
        HOLD_EM_CRAYFISH.done(),
        GREEK_HOLD_EM.done(),
        // Omahas
        OMAHA.done(),
        OMAHA_8.done(),
        OMAHA_SHORT.done(),
        BIG_O.done(),
        BINGLAHA.done(),
        DRAMADUGI.done(),
        DRAMAHA.done(),
        DRAMAHA_49.done(),
        DRAMAHA_ZERO.done(),
        DRAMAHA_21.done(),
        DRAMAHA_3D.done(),
        TWO_OR_FIVE_O8.done(),
        OMAHA_X_OR_BETTER.done(),
        DOUBLE_PLO.done(),
        FIVE_CARD_OMAHA.done(),
        OMAHA_CRAYFISH.done(),
        // Scrotum
        SCROTUM.done(),
        // Chowahas
        CHOWAHA.done(),
        CHOWAHA_FOUR_8.done(),
        // Triple Boards
        OKLAHOMA.done(),
        MURDER.done(),
        REDRUM.done(),
        // Courchevel
        COURCHEVEL.done(),
        // Draws
        DRAW.done(),
        LIMIT_CA_LOWBALL.done(),
        LIMIT_VANILLA_CA_LOWBALL.done(),
        NL_CA_LOWBALL.done(),
        DEUCE_TO_SEVEN.done(),
        QUICK_QUADS.done(),
        // Badugis
        BADUGI.done(),
        BADACEY.done(),
        BADEUCY.done(),
        // Triple Draws
        ACE_TO_FIVE_3D.done(),
        DEUCE_TO_SEVEN_3D.done(),
        ARCHIE.done(),
        KOREAN.done(),
        DUCK_FLUSH.done(),
        QUICK_QUADS_3D.done(),
        DEUCE_TO_SEVEN_2D.done(),
        // Mississippi Studs
        MISS_STUD.done(),
        MISS_8.done(),
        MISS_RAZZ.done(),
        // 7-card Studs
        STUD.done(),
        RAZZ.done(),
        STUD_8.done(),
        STUD_HIGH_LOW.done(),
        DEUCE_TO_SEVEN_RAZZ.done(),
        LONDON_LOWBALL.done(),
        RAZZDUGI.done(),
        ACTION_RAZZ.done(),
        ACTION_RAZZDUGI.done(),
        SUPER_STUD.done(),
        SUPER_STUD_8.done(),
        // 5-card studs
        FIVE_CARD_STUD.done(),
        // Mexicans
        MEXICAN.done(),
        // Simultaneous
        SOHE.done(),
        SHESHE.done(),
        // Choice
        PARADISE_PICK_EM.done(),
        WONKY_DONKEY.done(),
        DEALERS_CHOICE.done(),
        DEALERS_DIE.done(),
    ]
});

Internally, games are implemented as core games which can have a lot of options applied to them and the GAMES constant simply represents the most popular combinations of core games with options. There is no requirement for a combination of a core game and options to be present in GAMES for that combination to be used in a tournament structure or ring game, so mb2 is already dealing well more than seventy-four different variants, but some of the differences are so small that it’s hard to argue they’re different games.

Here are the core games, with up to three examples of each. This table demonstrates the flexibility of mb2; it’s not really that useful to players.