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In home games and live poker settings without a professional dealer, the responsibility of dealing cards often rotates among players. Being the dealer

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

A flush draw is one of poker’s most exciting and deceptive situations. You don’t have a made hand yet, but you hold four cards of the same suit and need

The straight flush sits just below the royal flush in poker’s hand hierarchy, making it the second strongest possible hand. It’s a five-card sequence of

A royal flush is the ace-high straight flush: A♠ K♠ Q♠ J♠ T♠, or the same five ranks in hearts, diamonds or clubs. It’s the strongest hand in standard

A flush—five cards of the same suit—is one of poker’s most iconic hands. It sits above straights and below full houses in hand rankings, offering both

A straight in poker is five cards of consecutive rank in any mix of suits, such as 5♦ 6♣ 7♠ 8♥ 9♦. It is the sixth-strongest hand in Texas Hold’em: it