* at home (not at a casino with rakes – and colluding strangers ! Nor within the modern craze of online/video/virtual depersonalization) * a medium ante in a low-limit game (such as a $1 ante and $5/$10 betting-rounds)
* 6 friends/relatives on the table (5 makes for a sufficiently fun game, too – as long as you’re not drawing to 4-Straights or 4-Flushes while 5-handed) Ideally, 5CD poker should be played with …