Types of Poker

Short Deck Hold’em—also known as Six Plus Hold’em—is a thrilling twist on Texas Hold’em that removes all cards ranked 2 through 5, leaving a 36-card deck.

Lowball poker flips traditional poker strategy on its head: instead of chasing straights, flushes, and full houses, your goal is to make the weakest possible hand.

Five-Card Stud is one of poker’s oldest and most elegant variants—a game of partial information, disciplined betting, and sharp observation.

Chinese Poker Pineapple (OFC Pineapple) is a fast-paced, highly strategic offshoot of Open-Face Chinese Poker (OFC) that blends luck, hand-reading, and

Razz is seven-card stud played for the lowest hand. Each player gets seven cards, three face down and four face up, and the best low five-card hand takes the whole pot.

Seven-Card Stud was once the dominant form of poker in the U.S., long before Texas Hold’em took over the spotlight. Unlike community-card games, Stud deals

HORSE poker is the gold standard of mixed-game poker—a rotating format that tests your versatility across five distinct variants: Hold’em, Omaha Hi-Lo

In hi-lo poker the pot is split in two: half goes to the best high hand, half to the best low hand. In the usual “eight or better”

Omaha is played like Texas Hold’em with one big difference: you get four hole cards instead of two, and your final hand must use exactly two of them

Good PLO strategy comes down to three ideas Hold’em players often learn the hard way: hands run much closer in equity, the winning hand at showdown is