If you were to ever think about which poker games you had played, you may come up with quite a few. Names like Omaha, Stud poker, draw and of course the poker player’s favorite Texas Hold’em. Now those games alone are more than enough to keep someone happy for the rest of their life. It may, though, shock a lot of people to realize that there are more games of poker than all the other card games put together.
There are so many poker games that nobody really knows exactly how many variations there are being played today. So what are all these different poker games that we’ve never heard off you might ask? Well you will have probably played one or two of them when you first played poker with your friends or family and you may not have realized it.
Many people’s first poker games involved them having a vague idea of what the aim of the game and then filling in the gaps of how to get there. So many people played these poker games that they began to spread and gain their own following. Over time we named them and they have stayed under the umbrella name of home poker games.
There are lots of different games that are come within the home poker games category that you will have heard of. Tic Tac Toe is a really popular family favorite with lots of rounds of betting; In fact the betting rounds can be played about with a lot because of the amount of cards that are on the table. Just like Hold’em, each player gets two cards and then community cards (face up cards for everyone) are laid in a 3×3 square. The players can then make a hand out of any row (diagonal included) of the square plus their two personal cards. Rounds of betting can be as varied as the players agree to.
The beauty of having a little freedom to customize the games for you own preferences means that it’s easy for families to play fun poker games. There are so many more that you may have played without realizing it. Cincinnati is very much like Omaha but with Cincinnati, the player gets to use all of the four cards they are dealt instead of just two. The rest of the game is exactly the same as Hold’em, but the only difference is that you have four cards dealt at the start.
You can easily see why and how so many versions of poker games exist. You could list them all day and you would barely scratch the surface because there are that many options to such a versatile game. A casino favorite in some parts of the world is Manila or seven up.
In Manila there are only cards 7, 8, 9 and 10 plus the picture cards and the aces. Each player gets two cards which must be used in their hand unlike many other poker games where you only use the cards you want to. There are eventually five community cards hence the name 7 up and each after the flop has a round of betting. You can see how there are many ways in which you can alter this game to suit, either with the betting rounds or the use of the cards dealt.
Poker games are just so adaptable that anyone can make their own version work and get a playable game going in minutes. That’s what has made poker the most widely played game in the world and that’s taking in to consideration all sports and video games too. There are more people playing poker at any one time than you could possibly imagine and quick look through poker game sites on the internet will prove it.
Some of the most popular poker games are played by people at online poker sites in the hundreds of thousands. While most people play Texas Hold’em which is very addictive, many prefer to play other games that perhaps have more rounds. More rounds usually mean longer games but more betting. Some people play a three card poker which is very quick and is played against the house dealer.
Each different version of poker will have different qualities and sometimes different winning hands. Manila is one example where a flush is better than a full house because it’s harder to achieve with only 32 cards. The list of variations in poker games goes on and on as do the rules and techniques. The variety or choice can sometimes be confusing and that’s why most places will only have one or two poker games to play. While we all agree that Texas Hold’em is the most popular, many would say that it only suits casino games and others are better for friendly games. Well, there’s only one way to really find out and that’s to play as many as you can.
