Follow the Queen!

I love Paddy Power. I haven’t had a whole lot of experience with its online poker room, but I love how balls to the wall these guys are. Is it any wonder that they’re Irish?
Paddy Power is notorious for its unique and sometimes controversial wagering themes. It’s Back That Ace Up promo is no exception. Although, I have to say, I’d like there to be some sort of ace-driven winning stipulation – with its title as the simple reasoning for this.
Maybe something like Follow the Ace, or Ace’s Wild or something. For those of you who have never played the Follow-the-Queen format of poker, try it! It’s super fun, although you rarely see it in online poker.
This is the kind of poker that I started out playing. Essentially, whatever you decided is the followed card (usually a Queen) is a wild card. So, if it were an Ace, any card that was immediately dealt after an ace becomes a wild card. If the final card dealt is an ace, then all aces are wild. If no aces are dealt, there are no wild cards for that particular hand. The Queen usually comes up more times than you would expect, and it makes for a slew of wild card throughout the game, and it makes you think and exercises those memory muscles.
But what really makes this game fun is that if you have an amazing hand due to a wild card – if another ace were to come up, it will totally screw you! AND! If you have a crappy crap hand, you can turn it around with one card.
You know what? I’m going to go e-mail some online poker rooms and request that they start offering a follow-the-Queen game. It’s nostalgic for me, but I think a lot of people haven’t heard of it, so it would add a good mixture to players that are gradually becoming bored with the Texas Hold’em and Omaha formats.