{"id":7416,"date":"2010-09-17T10:19:53","date_gmt":"2010-09-17T09:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/?p=7416"},"modified":"2020-09-24T12:24:06","modified_gmt":"2020-09-24T12:24:06","slug":"partypoker-launches-double-holdem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/partypoker-launches-double-holdem.html","title":{"rendered":"PartyPoker launches Double Hold&#8217;em"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7417\" title=\"double_holdem\" src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/double_holdem-300x2121.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Imagine the monster poker hands you could make if you could play every pot with three hole cards instead of two.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Well, starting today <a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\">PartyPoker.com<\/a> is giving players three hole cards instead of two. No, it\u2019s not an April Fool \u2013 we\u2019ve introduced a new style of poker called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/how_to_play\/poker_school\/poker_games\/double_holdem.html\">Double Hold\u2019em<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Exclusive to PartyPoker.com, Double Hold\u2019em is Texas Hold\u2019em with a twist. You start each hand with three hole cards instead of two.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Then, after the flop, you nominate one card to be your \u2018point card\u2019. This card plays alongside your other two cards, making two separate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/en\/how-to-play\/hand-rankings\">poker hands<\/a>. You automatically play with whichever is the strongest. (Unclear? Watch this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/how_to_play\/poker_school\/poker_games\/double_holdem.html\">video tutorial<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We\u2019re offering Double Hold\u2019em in Limit and No Limit formats, and it&#8217;s live in the client right now. You can play for real money, or try it out at our play money tables. PartyPoker.com is the only place where you can play Double Hold\u2019em online, so launch the software today and get used to playing with three cards instead of two.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine the monster poker hands you could make if you could play every pot with three hole cards instead of two. Well, starting today PartyPoker.com is giving players three hole cards instead of two. No, it\u2019s not an April Fool \u2013 we\u2019ve introduced a new style of poker called Double Hold\u2019em. Exclusive to PartyPoker.com, Double<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/partypoker-launches-double-holdem.html\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":30905,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2182,300],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[17537,19989,7231,23863,4841,5101,23866,23864,17066,2647,4573,2588,2582,23865],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7416"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7416"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94397,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7416\/revisions\/94397"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7416"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=7416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}