Poker Variants

By | March 23, 2015

Poker is card game and there are so many variants of this great game and if you are a poker player you should know everything about the variants. Here are some popular poker variants such as 5 card draw, 5 card stud,7 card draw,7 card stud, and community card. In draw poker the games are dealt with complete hands. In stud poker the player gets a set of face up and face down cards in many rounds.

Here are rules for the 5 card draw. In this game 3-6 players can play in some cases a chance to play for 7th player with a very small possibility of reshuffling. The game starts with the dealing of five cards face down to each player. The dealing takes place through the left player of the dealer. After the dealing completes the player has the chance to get three cards from the deck.

The next variation of the poker games is 7-card stud. In this game 3 to 7 players can take part. The game starts with two cards faced down and one faced up to each player. The game starts with showing of high hand. After completing of every (7 cards) the players has to make his hands with the help of best five cards.

In the next variation of the game that is in 5-card stud in this variant 3 to 10 players can take part. The play is same as 7 card stud. The game is same as 7 card stud.

Some common variation is like that:-

Lowball: – In this particular variation the lowest hand wins the pot and used in razz very commonly.

Hi/Lo split: – In this kind of gaming the pot is distributed in between highest and the lowest hands.

Anaconda: – This is also called as passing the trash. 4 to 7 players can take part in the game. The deal starts with seven cards faced down to each player and then the player will have to pass three cards to the person sitting left to him or her.

Auction: – The next variation is called as auction. With 3-7 players playing the game the initial deal starts with two cards down to each of the player.

Kill game: – In this variation of poker game. This variation comes in nature when a fixed game is played on and the player wins two pots in a row. In this game a player may choose to kill after winning two pots in a row.

Baseball- The next one is this series is baseball. Number of players can be 3 to 7. The initial deal starts with dealing of two cards faced down to each player as well as one card face up.

Wild card; – The game of wild card is to make a deuce to the wild 7-stud variants.

Chicago: – in the game of Chicago 4 to 7 players can take part. This games also starts with two cards faced down and one card face up to each of the players and in this the first betting round starts with the showing of high hands. Try playing this variation/game at top us poker site.

Follow the queen: – next variation is names as follow the queen. Number of players can be 3 to 7. The initial deal is same as Chicago like two cards face down and one card face up to each of the players. The playing of the game is same as 7 card stud. The cards are dealt for the queen. Here the queen is wild hence another presence of queen will be replaced by the card after dealing the queen.

Indian poker: – The next variation very popular is Indian poker. In this particular game there can 2 to 7 players can take part. This is very popular.

Here I want to mention some mixed poker games as well and these are as follows:-

HOSE: – This game is played same as HORSE played excepting the Razz. The next mixed game is like.

H.O:- which is called a mixture of Texas hold’em and Omaha Hi/Lo.

The fixed limit Omaha and pot limit hi/lo is called as Omaha High-low mixed games. There are plenty of other mixed games such as: hold’em mixed, eight game mixed, ten game mixed.