Gay Baseball.
The sibling of Hetero Baseball: same 9-card 3×3 community array, same progressive-reveal-with-betting structure, same line-based hand formation. The wild-card mechanic is the complement of the Hetero version — here, two face cards of the same colour create wilds.
As with Hetero Baseball, the structural setup below comes from what Jesse has been told about the actual table game (the 3×3 array form), while the wild-card mechanic is taken from the 2024 onboarding doc. There may be inaccuracies; Jesse has not reviewed this page yet.
Setup
Identical to Hetero Baseball: nine community cards in a centre 3×3 grid, hole cards to each player, progressive reveal of community cards with betting rounds between flips. Standard house rules apply.
Wild cards
On a Gay Baseball table, wild cards are produced when two face cards of the same colour appear on the array:
- A red J/Q/K + another red J/Q/K creates 2 wild cards.
- A black J/Q/K + another black J/Q/K creates 2 wild cards.
Building is permitted — that is, any card connected to a wild pair (via line-of-three adjacency on the array, or via your hand) can participate in the wild calculation at showdown.
Reveal order, hand formation, ranking
All as in Hetero Baseball: reveal proceeds with the best showing hand betting first and clockwise from there. Hand uses up to three cards in a horizontal, vertical, or diagonal line of the array, combined with hole cards. Best five-card hand by the standard house ranking wins.
Open questions in the notes
Two open questions, both shared with Hetero Baseball:
- Whether the colour-pair has to be in the same line of the array, or whether the pairing is global. The working interpretation leans toward global.
- Whether the "buying a card when a 4 turns" rule from older Baseball notes carries over to the array form. The notes do not yet record an adjudication either way.