The following are suggestions for punishment poker.  The rules should
be modified for the situation and players likes/dislikes.  the poker
game itself is played as usual.


====================  Version 1  ====================

This version is primarily for when all the players are
subs/slaves/masochists/etc.

Start everyone with the same number of chips.  Each chip represents some
agreed upon standard punishment, ie one swat with a paddle.

At the end of the game, everyone has to recover enough chips from the
winners to have the same number of chips as they started with.

Dealer sets the ante before anyone sees their cards.  Ante is a minimum
of one chip and a max of 10.

Options:

     Combine with strip poker where clothes go first, once someone is
     nude they then use the chips.

     Settle up at the end of each hand instead of the end of the game.

     Everyone has their own color chips.  At the end of the game or each
     hand the loosers have to pay to recover their chips.

     People who want can buy additional credit by using IOU's with special
     punishments written on them.  Everyone in the game has to agree on
     the value of the IOU.

     Ante, instead of chips, everyone puts on a clothespin.  You get to
     remove all the clothespins only when you win a hand.


====================  Version 2  ====================

This version is primarily for couples or groups where the number of
masters/slaves, Doms/subs, tops/bottoms, sadists/masochists are about
the same.  Some of the ideas came from a chat with rya on irc.dal.net.

Everyone has their chips marked in some way so you can tell who started
with which chips.  The chips of the Masters/Doms/Tops/Sadists represent
rewards.The chips of the slaves/subs/bottoms/masochists represent
punishments.

As an example, the standard reward chips might represent money for
shopping, adjusted for your budget.  Say the reward chips are worth 25
to 50 cents each and maybe the next value chip up is worth 10 times the
basic chip.

The punisment chips might represent a medium swat with a paddle adjusted
for the level of play you want.  The next level up might represent a
medium/light stroke of the cane worth some multiple of the basic chip,
perhaps 10 basic chips to the next one up.  Or it might be a severe swat
with a heavy/severe paddle.  Or it might just be 10 basic swats.

This allows you to have chips of different values.  Depending on your
individual likes/dislikes/etc would affect the details of the values.

Next you can have special chips.  These would be numbered and there
should be an equal number of reward and punishement chips both in number
and value.

Special Rewards might be a night out, sub's choice, dinner/dancing/movie.
It might be a shopping trip (with a preset maximum limit).  The bottom/sub
should probably list possible rewards.  It might be breakfast in bed
for a week.

Special punishments might be something out of the ordinary.  Something
the Dom/Top wants to try that the bottom/sub is not interested in, but
still willing to do.  This might be wax play, perhaps a special dinner.
Perhaps it is wearing some special costume.

All parties would have to approve the rewards and punishments and their
equivalences.

If multiple couples/people, then the Rewards/Punishments are only to/from
the people who use the chips, ie if Master A has a dinner/movie chip, then
Master A is the one responsible for delivering the reward for that chip.

There are several options on play.  At any time, players may exchange
equal value chips.  In general, at the end of each hand or at the end
of the game, chips are exchanged until everyone has only their own chips
left or the other person has no chips to use to redeem theirs.  Once this
is done then the remaining chips they have from other players represent
their 'winnings'. Normal chips are exchanged/redeemed immediatly for
their reward/punishments.  The specials should be scheduled and redeemed
as soon as convienient for the parties involved.

Depending on what you like/dislike, you may also have chips that take
effect immediatly.  Perhaps wearing of clothespins until the chips are
won back or the end of the session.  Or the dom/top is the one to fetch
drinks/snacks until the end of the session.

Depending on the players desires, you might want to set a timelimit
on the game or maybe play in 30 minute or one hour blocks of time.
At the end of the time you have to settle and get all your chips back.