Watermelon

It’s like a double board game, except there are three boards and points decide who wins

Five hole cards, three complete boards, and a scoring system. Win a board, earn a point. The player with the most points takes the whole pot.

Rarity: very low, and thinly documented. Exactly one source describes it: Card Player Lifestyle’s mixed-game rules page. It is not in the WSOP 2026 live-action rules. Anything the source doesn’t state is marked below. A 2+2 forum thread titled “Watermelon?? Pineapple? who knows” exists but we couldn’t open it, and it may be about a different game.

30-second cheat sheet

• A five-card Omaha variant with three boards, each with flop, turn and river, and normal betting between streets.
• Best hand on a board earns a point. Three points total.
• Tied for a board: half a point each.
• Most points wins the entire pot.
• Tied on points: the pot is divided among the tied players.
• Not stated by the source: structure, burns, player count, odd chip.

Full rules

Deal and streets

Five hole cards, then three boards with usual betting rounds between streets. The source gives no burn procedure, player maximum, or betting limit. Pot-limit is our assumption. [INFERENCE]

Showdown

Each board is an Omaha-style hand. The source states only that each board is a full Omaha-style board. Exactly two of five hole cards plus three from that board is our reading. [INFERENCE] Whether you may use different pairs on different boards is not stated. [INFERENCE: yes, as in double-board games.]

Scoring

• Best hand on a board: 1 point.
• Tie on a board: half a point each.
• Most points takes the whole pot. Two boards beat one.
• If players tie on points (1/1/1 for example, or 1.5 each) the pot is shared among those tied players. The source gives no odd-chip rule.

Rooms disagree

There is only one source, so no disagreement is documented. We don’t merge it with any similarly-named Pineapple variant.

Worked examples

No verified examples. The example evaluator cannot score multi-board points games.

How you’ll embarrass yourself

• Expecting a payout per board. It is winner-take-all by points. Winning two boards beats winning one.
• Missing that 1/1/1 is a three-way chop of the whole pot.
• Assuming rules the source doesn’t give, like pot-limit betting. Confirm before the deal.

Lore and reputation

Card Player Lifestyle includes it in the flop-games list of its mixed-game rules page, which presents common variants for tournaments and low-stakes fixed-limit cash formats, mostly at its Mixed Game Festivals. We found no direct statement that it was spread at a festival event. Treat it as a rule-sheet-named, otherwise home-game or dealer’s-choice variant.