A Guide to Poker Variants

If you go check out poker news, and read about tournaments, you will be seeing various format of poker tournaments. You will read something like “Texas Hold’em” and more. Chances are, you are familiar with this. After all, poker games do have the same fundamentals, but vary a bit with each type. Today, we’ll give you a guide to the different poker variants.

Eventually, we will be giving you more in-depth explanations and guides on these poker variants. This is especially important to those who want to open an online casino. For now, you’ll need to gain the basics, so you will have a general idea when you start looking at poker games online.

Different Poker Variants

Keep in mind that poker, despite its variants, will have the same hand ranking and hierarchy, and will likely follow the same rules on dealing as well as betting.

• Straight Poker. This is where a complete hand is dealt to each player. Players will bet in one round, and can raise and re-raise. This is the original form of poker, and the most straightforward variation.
• Stud Poker. Stud Poker is where you have cards that will be dealt in a pre-arranged manner where you have face-down, or face-up cards. A round of betting follows each deal. There is a sub variation to this, where you have three, five, or seven card hands. The most popular stud poker is the seven-card stud. Here, you have two extra cards each player. Three are face-down, and four facing up. The goal is to make the best possible 5-hand card given these numbers.
• Draw Poker. Draw poker is a five-card draw where a complete hand is dealt for each player face-down. Players must place an ante to the pot. After which they can view their cards and place their bets as they go on. They can discard three cards and take new cards. Another round follows, after which players will show their cards. The player with the best hand wins.
• Community Card Poker. This is also called Flop Poker, which is similar to stud poker. Players are given an incomplete number of cards face-down. Then, face-up community cards will be dealt. From there, players will try to make the best five-hand card to win. Omaha and Texas hold’em are two of the most popular of this type.