Different Poker Games

I know there arel ike 20 odd different poker style games.

Which one do you guys mainly play (u could also explain the rules for me so i got something else to play)

after reading around i worked out me and my bro play Texas holdem - i love it

Yep, that's the most popular type of Poker, we're going to add some more structure to the forums soon to make way for the different types.

See our Poker Games page in the mean time.

theres another gmae just like texas holdem but u start with a different amount of cards in ur hand (stil lthe exact same in the middle). is texas holdem when u have 3 in your hand but you can only use 2 of them in the final hand or is that the other one

In Texas Hold'em you have two in your hand, in Omaha you have four in your hand but you have to use two.

ok then. i play Texas Hold'em but it was Omaha i was thinking of (i play both but mainly Texas)

omaha is more popular in europe while hold em is more popular in the states

must say i think i prefer omaha hilo after playing various different games

though razz looks fun I will have to find a site that plays that

I think Texas Hold'em is a better version although Omaha is also very good, but i agree with Grumble with Omaha being europe and Texas Hold'em in the states.

I always try to keep it as simple as possible, but adjusted the rules in case of more then 4 players I am best with 5 hand deal poker games

Yes, all the above statements are correct. Omaha is more popular in Europe which is why you will likely see most of the time a European win the Omaha tables.

Absolutely. Pot Limit Omaha is the game in the casinos here in the UK.

It's weird how I'm from England but have never played Ohaha, only holdem

It may be a changing trend in the past couple years. That is rather odd though.

Could also be because I only play online (most the gambling sites are US) and not offline.

I like Texas holdem, that is the only one that I am good at

And if your sad, and play on your own , there is "Deuces," "Jacks or Better" and "Draw," the latter being the best. imo

I play Texas Hold'em.

I like Hold 'em, but I really think 7-stud and Omaha are better, at least for the math geek.

NL Hold 'em is incredibly dramatic, and the psychological element is unignorable, but this also means it depends a lot on the players. I've been in NL Hold 'em games that weren't much fun, because NLTHe relies on emergent behavior to make the game fun.

7-card stud is more my cup of tea. Hold 'em only throws 169 nonequivalent possible starting hands at you, and the correct strategy with 80+% of them is, simply, Fold. I find Hold 'em to be a bit simple in this regard. Also, I find the "crackings" really unpleasant-- it happens in any poker game that sometimes your great hand is whacked by someone's better hand, but Texas is conducive to that. You might have two mediocre spades, plus three on the board, and be rooting against a river spade (which may make a higher flush somewhere, and you've already got yours)-- but the idea of poker is that your hand improves, not declines, with each round of betting. In 7-card stud, you almost never have the "nuts", but if you've got a flush or full, chances are it's a winning hand, enough that the flukes are negligible.

Also, 7-card stud provides way more than 169 starting hands, especially with the attention that has to be paid to door cards; this makes 7-stud a combinatorial behemoth (in terms of possibilities) compared to THe.

at the local poker rooms in edmonton they have half and half game
half hour of holdem, half hour omaha (bingo)
its a change of pace if you lose $ in holdem you can make it back in
omaha in 1 pot ppl usually stay in till the river
the only thing bad about when flop the nuts you have to pray
that your hand holds up the river lol

Recently I've been playing a lot of hold'em (offline and online), however, I'm always up for any kind of poker.

I even like the games that can only loosely be called poker. Nothing gets a home game fired up like a nice game of "In Between".

hold em is my game of choice although i do play 7card stud if i fancy a change.never played omaha yet but i will soon especially if there is play money tables on my sites.not jumping into cash games when i dont know what im doing!!

i love playing hold 'em at casinos, i feel its where i play my best.

at home games, im a big fan of 7 card and omaha/omaha hi-lo.

I'm a omaha junkie, can't get enough, which sucks because a lot of the games I play around here with friends they only like Hold'em which is fun too. I don't know something about omaha,

Tripple draw would have to be my 2nd fav. Anyone else like that one??

i'm not much of a Poker know it all (tbh, i'm not much of a poker player). could oyu explain what Triple Draw is for me

Triple draw there is A-5, 2-7. It's 5 cards and you want to make the lowest hand possible. Straights and flushes count against you, 23457 would be the best hand. The table goes around once and bets, then discards, so if you had 23456, you'd want to get rid of the 6 because that would count against you. You get 3 chances to draw a card to make the best lowest hand. 2-7 ace's count as a high card but in a-5 aces count as a low card.

http://www.pokernews.info/poker-rule...riple-draw.htm good site I read at, can better describe the game. It's fun tho! I watch Phil H. Play it a lot on Ultimatebet, pretty neat.

That sounds a lot like razz deuce to seven. But its just played in draw style. So its played like draw lowball only you get three chances to draw instead of one

Its in doyle's new book "super system 2" which i regard as the bible of poker. I havnt gotten to it yet but i do know its written by daniel negreanu

7 card and hold em

ohmaha is kool. i also play cross with my friends

I love draw poker. its sim ple (like me!!!) fast and furious. but I cant find many online rooms to play it. anyone know of any? or sites with info? I found one drawpokertips.com.