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 a lowball variant played in a seven-card stud format where the lowest five-card hand wins. Unlike many poker games, the board information is mostly

Razz is a variant of poker where the player who has the lowest hand (in the standard sense) wins, or as it’s officially called, the low combination.

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

Hi-Lo poker is a split-pot format where the best high hand and the best qualifying low hand share the pot. That changes everything: a hand that looks strong

If you know the rules of Texas Hold’em, learning Omaha should be a breeze. These two games are almost identical in structure, but differ quite a bit in