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Poker Rules

Before you start playing online poker, you need to know the rules of the game. The following pages provide you with the rules of the most popular poker variations today: Texas Holdem rules, Omaha rules, 7-Card-Stud rules, , How the betting works, Poker hand ranking.

Poker Rules articles

Razz Poker Rules

Razz is very similar to Seven-Card Stud - or the exact opposite depending on your point of view. The structure of the game is the same, but instead of making the best possible five-card poker hand out of seven cards, the goal is to make the worst possible hand.
Five Card Draw Poker Rules

Five-Card Draw is the classic poker variation where all players receive five hole cards. It's very easy to learn and play, but because all of the cards are hidden to the other players, the game involves quite a bit of luck and slightly less skill than most of the more modern variants.
Omaha Hi-Lo Rules

The basic game structure of Omaha Hi-Lo is the same as in Omaha High (and Texas Holdem,) with a small and a big blind and three community cards known as the "Flop", followed by a "Turn" and a "River."
Texas Hold'em Poker Rules

Texas Holdem is by far the most popular poker variation played online. It's usually played by up to 10 players who each receive two face-down hole cards. These two cards have to be combined with community cards, shared by all players, to form a five-card poker hand.
Seven-Card-Stud Rules

No community cards are used in Seven-Card Stud, and there are five betting rounds as opposed to the four in Texas Holdem and Omaha. The game does not have fixed positions; instead, the order of betting is determined by the cards showing.
Omaha Rules

The betting rounds in Omaha work the same way as they do in Texas Holdem, with a total of five community cards dealt as "The Flop" (three cards), followed by "The Turn" (one card) and "The River" (one card).

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