 Actuarial poker!
I am a student at Université Laval in Québec city, and I am into actuarial studies. Obviously, all of us love probabilities as this will be our jobs in the future to calculate them! So, of course, we all love to play cards! During a BORING class this semester, we invented a kind of two-player-poker that we think is very interesting and fun to play. Each player is dealt 25 cards out of the 52 cards deck, so we remove two cards randomly. Now, each player tries to build the best 5 poker hands he can with those 25 cards. when both players are done, we go head to head, starting with our best hand until we reach our worst hand. The winner is the one that won at least 3 out of 5 hands (indeed!). It is a lot of fun because you sometimes have to break some very strong hands to increase some weaker hands. For example, you sometimes have to make a full house out of a four of a kind, to use the other card to make a straight or a flush, etc...
We call this game Actuarial poker OR 25 cards poker...
I you wanna give it a try...
Ben | 
