A restraddle isn't exotic. Most players who've sat in a real cash game have seen one — someone posts a straddle from a seat that isn't UTG, and the table either knows exactly what that means or spends thirty seconds arguing about it. The Idaho Straddle specifically — restraddle from anywhere, whoever posts last gets ultimate last action, but only preflop — is one version of that argument, played out enough times in enough home games to earn its own name. That's where this site's name comes from. Not a metaphor, just the actual rule.
This isn't a beginner site, and it's not trying to be. If you need “what beats what” explained, there are a hundred places for that. This one assumes you already play — that you've got a regular game, you know your outs, and what you actually want is the stuff nobody bothers writing down: which house rule your table's been playing slightly wrong, what a genuinely obscure variant like Chowaha or Wonky Donkey actually does, how to read the five people you've played against for three years instead of a stranger across a casino table.
The Rulebook is the biggest thing here — 63 variants, each with its own page, researched properly rather than guessed at from the name. The blogcovers the parts of running a home game that aren't about the cards at all — keeping a game alive for years instead of months, reading regulars, the social contract nobody writes down but everyone breaks eventually.
No ads on this site, and that's on purpose, not a placeholder. The actual business is the shop— shirts, and eventually a compiled book pulling the best of the Rulebook and the blog into one physical reference you can actually keep at the table. If something here is useful to you, that's the way to say so.