High Noon

High Noon is a poker game using a standard 52-card deck.  2-9 players can play on a single deck, though with more players, the deck gets pretty thin.  Each round of High Noon is played with the following steps:

Step 1:  Each player is dealt a hand of five cards, face-down.

Step 2:  Each player may choose to discard one card, which is kept face-down.  When each player has discarded a card (or passed without doing so), the dealer burns a card, then reveals one community card.

Steps 3 & 4:  Repeat step 2 twice more.  This results in three community cards being revealed, and each player ends with two to five cards in hand, depending on how many they discarded.

Step 5:  Each player reveals their hand.  Players use all of the cards in their hand, plus whatever community cards they choose to make their final hand.

Possible hands:  A player with five cards in hand uses the five cards in their hand, and no community cards.  A player with four or three cards in hand uses them, plus one or two community cards (respectively) of their choice.  A player with two cards in hand uses the two cards in hand, plus all three community cards to make their hand.

In case you forgot.

There are three variants to High Noon based on the style of betting:

Standoff: Each player antes at the beginning, before being dealt a hand.  This is the only betting that takes place.  Therefore, players have no reason to fold, so all players stay to the end and reveal their cards.

Showdown: This variant uses a forced bet called a mid, which has the same value as the ante, but can happen in the middle of the hand.  (I made up the term 'mid' for this kind of bet, because I can't find any real term for it.)  In Showdown, each player antes at the beginning of the hand, before cards are dealt, and then either mids or folds between each step.

Shootout: Each player antes at the beginning, and then partakes in a standard round of betting between each step.  Standard betting includes opening, calling, checking, raising, re-raising, or folding.