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Home Game Heroes: Strategy for Flop Games with Different Board Arrays

In my last column on home games, I looked at the many different variations there can be in the layout or “array” of board cards in a home game.

When people invent home games they frequently like to toy with how the community cards are laid out. How do you, as a skilled poker player, take advantage of these variants by exploiting those aspects of these games that other, less skillful players, may not consider? Specifically, what strategy considerations go into your play when you see community cards that are not set up in the familiar three cards of a flop, followed by one turn and one river?