POKER CARD GAMES RULES
Texas Holdem( Texas Holdem Rules)
The most popular of casino poker games, Texas Hold'em (usually shortened to
just Holdem) is a community card game where each player gets two cards
while sharing five community cards with all players. The person who can
combine their cards to make the best five card poker hand wins -- unless a
worse hand bluffs the better hands into folding during the four betting rounds.
See also: Texas Holdem Strategy
Omaha Holdem (Omaha Hold'em Rules)
A community card cousin of Texas Hold'em, in Omaha each player receives
four personal cards and shares five community cards. Commonly played
eight-or-better high-low split, Omaha can also be played high only,
although then it is usually played with pot limit betting. See:
See also: Omaha Poker Strategy
Crazy Pineapple Poker
The middle cousin between the Omaha and Texas Holdem poker games, in
Pineapple players are dealt three cards which they combine with the five
community cards -- except Pineapple requires that at some point players
must discard one of the three cards. Usually this occurs after the flop
(Crazy Pineapple), but it can also occur before the flop ("regular"
Pineapple). More often than not the game is played High Low Split.
Pineapple is also known as "Watermelon" (spitting out the seeds).
( Stud Poker Rules)
Stud has dozens of variations. Seven Card Stud is the most popular casino
Stud type, whereas Seven Card Stud Eight or Better is the most popular tournament version.
While an immensely popular home poker game in its many forms (Chicago, Anaconda, Baseball, etc.)
Stud has been losing popularity in casinos to the community card games. Eight or Better,
or Stud8, is the most common form of HiLo Stud, but High-Low Declare is
common in home games. In casinos, sometimes "Q" is played: High Low,
no qualifier. 5 Card Stud is another game on life support in casinos.
Too much pure skill, so bad players lose quickly, and the game becomes
fairly pointless when played with good players only. A few games can be
found online however. Stripped deck Mexican Stud is a fairly popular game
when a casino offers it. In the few places where it is played, Sonora,
no limit five card stud, has its loyal devotees.
Draw Poker (Draw Poker Rules)
Five Card Draw is the most basic of all poker games, familiar to tens of
millions of people via western movies and home games. Due to its extremely
high level of basic skill (bad players simply can't compete in even the
medium run) Draw is nearly extinct in casinos. Variant: Jacks or Better
where you must have at least a pair of jacks or better before you can open
a pot before the draw.
Lowball (Lowball Rules)
The opposite of Draw High, Lowball is five card draw where the lowest hand
wins (with straights or flushes not mattering). Aces play low, so the best
hand possible is a five-high "wheel": 5432A. Deuce to Seven Draw
is a Lowball variation where straights and flushes do count and aces act as high
cards, making 75432 the best possible hand. 2 to 7 is usually played with No
Limit betting. Both forms of Lowball are seldom played anywhere these days, but when
they are, they are often played in the Triple Draw format, where instead of
the traditional one, three draws (and thus more rounds of betting action) occur.
Razz Poker (Razz Rules)
Razz is Seven Card Stud played low. A simple, mechanical game when played with a
full table of players, Razz games seldom exist except in tournament and shorthanded
(two to four players) situations where limited chip stacks or high antes encourage action.
Mixed Games
HORSE (Holdem-Omaha-Razz-Eight or Better Stud), HOE (Holdem-Omaha-Eight or Better)
and OE (Omaha8-Stud8) are common casino offerings at higher limits, where mixed
games are often spread to keep single game specialists out, and also because the
pool of available players for any games is so small.
Non-Poker Casino Games
Caribbean Stud, Let It Ride and Pai Gow Poker are not "poker" per se,
but rather casino games played against the house with poker-like elements.
Similarly, video poker is not "poker" but rather slot machines with
a poker element. Chinese Poker is more poker-like since players do have an
option to surrender.
Game Structures and Betting
Almost all poker games can be played either Limit, Spread Limit, Pot Limit
or No Limit. Limit betting has fixed bets. Spread Limit has fixed bets
within a range, for example, $1 to $4. In Pot Limit you can bet up to the
pot size. In No Limit you can bet all the chips in front of you.
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