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Five-Card Draw
The simplest and oldest form of poker: five private cards, one chance to trade in cards you don't want, and a single showdown.
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A Seven-Card Stud variant where the appearance of a queen as an up-card designates the next card dealt face up as wild for the rest of the hand.
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The classic stud game and the backbone of home poker for decades: seven cards dealt to each player, three down and four up, with the best five-card hand winning.
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5-Card Omaha
Omaha with five hole cards instead of four, played high-only — the high-hand-only counterpart to Big O, which adds a low split to the same five-card format.
Learn the rules →A-5 Triple Draw
Ace-to-Five lowball played with three separate draw rounds instead of one, giving players up to three chances to improve toward the best possible hand, the wheel (A-2-3-4-5).
Learn the rules →All In Stud
A Galaxy Gaming casino table game mathematically equivalent to Let It Ride, but using an 'add bets' structure instead of the pull-back mechanic.
Learn the rules →Ambigu
A French vying game first recorded in 1659 under Louis XIV, blending elements of Whist, Bouillotte, and Piquet, with hand categories that closely parallel modern poker rankings.
Learn the rules →Anaconda
Also known as Pass the Trash: every player gets seven cards, passes several away in stages, then rolls their final hand out one card at a time.
Learn the rules →Archie
A five-card triple-draw hi-lo split game requiring a genuine qualifying hand on both the high and low sides, popularized on the Las Vegas mixed-game scene.
Learn the rules →As Nas
A centuries-old Persian card game, played with a 20 or 25-card deck among five players, that many gaming historians point to as a possible influence on poker's hand rankings and betting structure.
Learn the rules →Auction
A Seven-Card Stud variant where the wild card for the hand isn't fixed in advance — players bid chips into a side pot for the right to name it, right after third street.
Learn the rules →Badacey
A split-pot mixed game pairing Badugi with Ace-to-Five Triple Draw: the pot divides between the best four-card Badugi and the best five-card Ace-to-Five low hand.
Learn the rules →Badeucey
A split-pot mixed game combining Badugi and Deuce-to-Seven Triple Draw: the pot divides between the best four-card Badugi and the best five-card 2-7 low hand.
Learn the rules →Badugi
A four-card draw lowball game from Korea where the best hand is four unpaired, unsuited low cards — a 'badugi.'
Learn the rules →Baseball
A high-variance Seven-Card Stud variant themed after the sport: 3s are always wild, and any player dealt a 4 face up may buy an extra card.
Learn the rules →Basset
A 17th-century Italian banking game, brought to fashionable prominence at the French court, in which players bet on cards turning up from the banker's deck — a direct ancestor of Faro.
Learn the rules →Big O
Omaha Hi-Lo's bigger sibling: five hole cards instead of four, still using exactly two at showdown, split between the best high and best qualifying low hand.
Learn the rules →Black Mariah
An intense Chicago variant, also called Follow the Bitch: the queen of spades is wild, and the lowest spade in the hole (not the highest) wins half the pot.
Learn the rules →Bouillotte
A high-stakes French vying game that emerged during the Revolutionary era, played with a stripped 20-card deck and believed to have shaped the early French form of Poque.
Learn the rules →Brelan
A French vying game from the 15th–19th centuries, played with three cards and a card turned from the deck — a key link in the chain leading to Bouillotte and Poque.
Learn the rules →Cajun Stud
A Galaxy Gaming casino table game built on the same progressive-reveal structure as Mississippi Stud, with additional side bets layered on top.
Learn the rules →California Lowball
The classic single-draw lowball game: five cards, one draw, lowest hand wins using Ace-to-Five ranking where straights and flushes don't count.
Learn the rules →Caribbean Stud
A modern banking casino table game built on Five-Card Stud: each player's hand is compared only against the dealer's, with an optional progressive jackpot side bet for a royal flush.
Learn the rules →Casino Hold'em
A banking casino adaptation of Texas Hold'em devised in the late 1990s, first spread in Egyptian casinos before expanding to Russia, South Africa, and eventually the UK.
Learn the rules →Cheat
Also called I Doubt It or Bullshit — a pure bluffing game where players discard face-down while lying about what they played, and others may call the bluff.
Learn the rules →Chicago
A Seven-Card Stud variant where half the pot is awarded not for the best hand, but for the highest spade dealt face down in the hole.
Learn the rules →Chinese Poker
The original, simultaneous-deal version of Chinese Poker: all thirteen cards dealt at once, then arranged into three hands (top, middle, bottom) and scored against every opponent.
Learn the rules →Chowaha
A Hold'em/Omaha hybrid popularized by the mixed-game enthusiast community: four hole cards combine with a nine-card community grid plus turn and river, using exactly two hole cards per hand.
Learn the rules →Cincinnati
A stud-and-community hybrid: every player gets five private down cards, and a shared row of community cards is revealed one at a time to build the best hand.
Learn the rules →Commerce
An 18th-century French vying game where players trade cards with a shared table pool to build the best three-card combination — a likely ancestor of Whisky Poker.
Learn the rules →Courchevel
A French Omaha variant, named for the ski resort, where the first flop card is exposed before any preflop betting even happens.
Learn the rules →Crazy 4 Poker
A Shuffle Master casino game where players make the best four-card hand from five cards, with the option to bet up to 3x their ante if holding a pair of aces or better.
Learn the rules →Crazy Pineapple
A Texas Hold'em variant where each player gets three hole cards instead of two, discarding down to two right after the flop.
Learn the rules →Deuce-to-Seven Triple Draw
A five-card draw lowball game with three separate draw rounds — the lowest hand wins, and straights, flushes, and aces all count against you.
Learn the rules →DJ Wild Poker
A Shuffle Master casino game played with deuces and a joker wild, where players build a five-card hand and compare it directly against the dealer's.
Learn the rules →Double Draw
A Five-Card Draw variant with two separate draw rounds instead of one, giving players a second chance to improve before the final showdown.
Learn the rules →Double Flop Hold'em
A Hold'em variant where two entirely separate community boards are dealt simultaneously, and players make their best hand against each board independently.
Learn the rules →Dr. Pepper
A Seven-Card Stud variant themed after the soda: 7s are wild, and any player dealt a 10 face up may pay to buy an extra card — playing on the old '10, 2, and 4' slogan.
Learn the rules →Elevator
A Cincinnati-family community-card game where the number of wild cards changes mid-hand — the community row is dealt face down, then flipped up one at a time, with the highest (and sometimes also lowest) card each round setting the wild rank.
Learn the rules →Face Up Pai Gow Poker
A variant of Pai Gow Poker where the banker's seven cards are dealt and set face up according to a fixed house way, and the usual 5% commission is replaced by an automatic push on Ace-high banker hands.
Learn the rules →Faro
A once-massively popular banking card game (also called Pharaoh) that dominated American and European gambling halls for over two centuries, simplifying Basset's mechanic into a fast, simple bet-on-a-card game.
Learn the rules →Flop Poker
A patented casino table game where each player gets three private cards and a three-card community flop, competing against other players for a shared pot rather than against the dealer.
Learn the rules →Four Card Poker
A casino banking game where players make the best four-card hand from five dealt cards, competing against a dealer who draws from six cards with no qualifying requirement.
Learn the rules →Gardena Jackpot
Also called Jacks to Open — a Five-Card Draw variant popularized in the historic Gardena, California poker clubs, where no one may open the betting without a pair of jacks or better.
Learn the rules →Gilet
An even older ancestor than Primero, referenced by Rabelais in 1534 — a three-card vying game that evolved into Brelan under the reign of Charles IX.
Learn the rules →Glic
One of the oldest recorded European vying games, dating to at least 1454 — its French name is considered the most direct linguistic root of 'Poque,' and by extension 'poker.'
Learn the rules →Guts
A fast, high-variance dealer's-choice staple: everyone gets a few cards, then privately decides in or out — those who stay and lose match the pot.
Learn the rules →Heads-Up Hold'em
A Galaxy Gaming casino table game where players face the dealer one-on-one, with a distinctive 'bad beat' Odds bet that pays out on a strong hand even if the player ultimately loses.
Learn the rules →High Card Flush
A Galaxy Gaming casino table game ranked entirely by flush strength: seven cards dealt to each side, with the best flush (or, lacking one, the best high cards) determining the winner.
Learn the rules →Indian Poker
Also called Blind Man's Bluff: each player holds one card to their forehead, visible to everyone but themselves, and bets purely on what they can read in others' reactions and cards.
Learn the rules →Iron Cross
A five-card draw hybrid where each player's private hand can be combined with a shared cross-shaped layout of community cards on the table.
Learn the rules →Jacks Back
A Five-Card Draw variant that plays as a normal high game when someone can open with jacks or better — but automatically converts to Ace-to-Five lowball if nobody qualifies.
Learn the rules →Jacks or Better
The classic 'openers' version of Five-Card Draw: no one may open the betting without at least a pair of jacks, a rule originally meant to slow down wild early betting.
Learn the rules →Kansas City Lowball
A single-draw version of Deuce-to-Seven lowball: five cards, one draw, and the lowest hand wins, with aces high and straights/flushes counting against you.
Learn the rules →Lansquenet
A German banking game named after 15th-16th century mercenaries, first referenced by Rabelais in 1534 — a direct precursor to Faro and Baccarat, and ancestor of Italian Zecchinetta.
Learn the rules →Let It Ride
A casino game invented by Shuffle Master founder John Breeding in 1993: players bet across three spots on their own five-card hand, with the option to pull back two of the three bets before later cards are revealed.
Learn the rules →London Lowball
A lowball variant where straights and flushes count against you like Deuce-to-Seven, but aces still play low — the best hand is 6-4-3-2-A, the 'Chicago Wheel.'
Learn the rules →Loo
Also called Lanterloo — England's most popular card game by the early 18th century, where players may fold for free or commit to winning a trick or pay a forfeit into the pool.
Learn the rules →Low Chicago
A simpler cousin of standard (high) Chicago: half the pot goes to the best hand, the other half to the lowest spade dealt in the hole — no wild cards involved.
Learn the rules →Manila
An Australian stud variant played with a stripped-down deck (7s and higher only), which makes straights and flushes much rarer and full houses correspondingly more common.
Learn the rules →Mexican Sweat
A No Peek variant where a card is dealt face up to the center as the hand to beat, and players flip their own unseen cards trying to top it without matching a designated 'kill' rank.
Learn the rules →Mississippi Mud
The hi-lo split version of Roll Your Own: seven-card stud dealt face down, with players choosing their own exposed cards, and the pot split between the best high and low hands at showdown.
Learn the rules →Mississippi Stud
A casino table game where players bet on their own two hole cards plus three community cards revealed one at a time, with no dealer hand to beat — just a fixed paytable.
Learn the rules →Mus
A Basque partnership vying and bluffing game, first documented in 1745, where teammates signal hand strength to each other through truthful gestures while betting across four hand categories.
Learn the rules →Naqsh
A banking game from the Ganjifa card tradition, which originated in 15th-century Persia and flourished at the Mughal courts of India — players bet on reaching specific card-total combinations.
Learn the rules →Night Baseball
Baseball played almost entirely in the dark: cards that would normally be up-cards are instead dealt face down, with only a single card revealed at the very end.
Learn the rules →No Peek
A stud variant where seven cards are dealt entirely face down and unseen, and players flip their own cards one at a time in turn — only revealing them once they choose to beat the current best hand showing.
Learn the rules →Oicho-Kabu
A traditional Japanese banking card game, played with hanafuda-style Kabufuda cards, where the goal is a two- or three-card total ending in 9 — the best score, called 'Kabu.'
Learn the rules →Omaha
Community-card poker like Hold'em, but with four hole cards instead of two — high hand only, no low split, and exactly two hole cards must be used at showdown.
Learn the rules →Omaha Hi-Lo
A community-card game related to hold'em: four hole cards, five community cards, and the pot splits between the best high hand and the best qualifying low hand.
Learn the rules →Open-Face Chinese Poker
A very different kind of poker: no betting rounds at all. Thirteen cards are arranged into three hands (top, middle, bottom), scored against each opponent's three hands.
Learn the rules →Pai Gow Poker
A banking card-table adaptation of the ancient Chinese tile game Pai Gow: each player splits seven cards into a five-card hand and a two-card hand, both of which must beat the banker's.
Learn the rules →Pineapple
The straightforward cousin of Crazy Pineapple: three hole cards dealt before the flop, with the discard down to two happening immediately, before any betting.
Learn the rules →Pochen
A German bluffing and betting game — the Pochspiel — whose name is another leading candidate for the direct linguistic root of the word 'poker.'
Learn the rules →Poque
The 17th-18th century French bluffing and betting game most often credited as the direct namesake and ancestor of the English word 'poker.'
Learn the rules →Post and Pair
A 16th-17th century English vying game (also called 'Pink'), referenced by Shakespeare, built around three-of-a-kind combinations and considered a direct ancestor of Brag.
Learn the rules →Primero
A Renaissance-era Spanish card game — one of the oldest documented ancestors of poker, in which players compete to form the best of several fixed hand types from four cards.
Learn the rules →Pusoy
The Filipino take on 13-card poker: all cards dealt at once and sorted into a 5-5-3 arrangement, with its own suit-ranking conventions distinct from the Chinese original.
Learn the rules →Put
A 16th-19th century English vying and trick-playing game for two players, documented in Charles Cotton's 1674 gaming compendium and closely related to Truco.
Learn the rules →Pyramid
An Iron Cross-family community game where four hole cards combine with six community cards arranged in triangular rows, usually played hi-lo with a declaration.
Learn the rules →Razz
Seven-Card Stud played for low instead of high — the worst-looking five-card hand (Ace-to-5, straights and flushes ignored) wins the pot.
Learn the rules →Razzdugi
A split-pot mixed game combining Razz and Badugi: the pot divides between the best seven-card Razz low hand and the best four-card Badugi made from the same seven cards.
Learn the rules →Roll Your Own
A Seven-Card Stud variant dealt entirely face down, where players — not the dealer — choose which of their own cards to expose on each street.
Learn the rules →Russian Poker
A banking casino table game popularized in Russian and Eastern European casinos: each player is dealt five cards to beat the dealer's five, with the option to pay a fee to swap in a new card.
Learn the rules →Screw Your Neighbor
A fast, simple British parlor card game (also called Ranter-Go-Round or Cuckoo) where players try to pass off their worst card and avoid being stuck holding the lowest hand at the table.
Learn the rules →Seven-Card Stud Hi-Lo
Standard Seven-Card Stud with the pot split between the best high hand and the best qualifying low hand, usually 8-or-better, Ace-to-Five.
Learn the rules →Short Deck Hold'em
Also called Six Plus Hold'em: Texas Hold'em played with a 36-card deck (2s through 5s removed), which flips some standard hand rankings and is popularly associated with high-stakes Asian cash games.
Learn the rules →Six-Card Omaha
Omaha with six hole cards instead of four, creating fifteen possible hole-card combinations and pushing average hand strength even higher than 5-Card Omaha.
Learn the rules →Six-Card Stud
Seven-Card Stud minus the final face-up street — two down cards, three up cards, and one final down card — a faster, tighter stud variant.
Learn the rules →Sok
A Finnish five-card stud variant (also called Sökö) that inserts two extra hand categories — a four-card straight and a four-card flush — below a standard pair in the ranking hierarchy.
Learn the rules →Spit in the Ocean
A Five-Card Draw variant with a single shared community card: each player holds four private cards and uses one shared face-up card as their fifth, wild for everyone.
Learn the rules →Super Omaha
A Galaxy Gaming casino adaptation of Omaha, invented by poker author Jeff Hwang, where players fold or raise against the dealer once the flop is revealed.
Learn the rules →Teen Patti
South Asia's most popular card game, closely related to Three Card Brag: three cards each, with the same blind/seen betting tension and a beloved place at festival gatherings.
Learn the rules →Texas Hold'em
The world's most popular poker variant: two private hole cards combined with five shared community cards, playable heads-up or with a full ring of players.
Learn the rules →Texas Hold'em Bonus Poker
A casino Hold'em variant with sequential betting at the flop, turn, and river, no dealer qualifier, and an Ante that only pays out if the player's hand reaches a straight or better.
Learn the rules →Three Card Brag
A classic English pub and home gambling game, and the ancestor of poker's bluffing tradition: three cards each, with a unique 'blind' betting option for the brave.
Learn the rules →Three Card Poker
A modern casino banking game invented in 1994: players ante, look at three cards, then fold or bet against the dealer's own three-card hand, with hand rankings unique to the short deal.
Learn the rules →Tic-Tac-Toe
A community-card stud hybrid where nine shared cards are dealt in a 3x3 grid, and players use any winning 'line' (row, column, or diagonal) as their community cards.
Learn the rules →Truco
A wildly popular South American trick-taking game built around bluffing and betting on hidden hand strength — Argentina's answer to poker's core mechanic of representing a hand you may not have.
Learn the rules →Ultimate Texas Hold'em
A casino adaptation of Hold'em played against the dealer: players commit to a raise size at each stage (or fold), with the biggest raises available before the flop is even seen.
Learn the rules →Whisky Poker
An American poker variant documented in the 1875 edition of Hoyle's Games, where players trade cards with a shared central hand instead of drawing from the dealer — often played for drinks rather than money.
Learn the rules →Woolworth
A Seven-Card Stud variant named for the five-and-dime store: 5s and 10s are wild, but only until a second one is showing, which strips all of them of their wildness for that hand.
Learn the rules →Yukon Hold'em
A Texas Hold'em variant with two separate three-card flops and two turn cards, where players must build their hand around one complete set of shared cards.
Learn the rules →Z
An Iron Cross-family game where five hole cards and four community cards laid out in a 'Z' shape combine, played hi-lo with a fixed combination rule.
Learn the rules →Zecchinetta
An old Italian gambling card game, close cousin to games like Basset and Faro, in which a banker deals cards one at a time and players bet on whether a matching card appears before the banker's own.
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