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Forms of Poker
Poker is a generic name for literally hundreds of games, but they all
fall within a few interrelated types. There are high games like seven-card
stud and Texas hold 'em, in which the highest hand in the showdown
wins, and low games like draw lowball and razz, in which the lowest
hand wins. There are also high-low split games, in which the best high
hand and the best low hand split the pot. Among high, low, and high-low
split games there are those like five-card draw, in which the hands
are closed, and those like seven-card stud, in which some of the players'
cards are exposed for all to see.
Jokers, wild cards, and special rules may be introduced into any of
these games to create such aberrations as Baseball, Follow the Queen,
Anaconda, and scores of other variations that have spiced up home poker
for decades. Paradoxically, the two types of players who favor these
exotic poker variations are generally amateurs who want a lot of action
and hustlers who prey on these amateurs because their long experience
allows them to adjust more easily to unusual games than their amateur
opponents can. However, before a player can become an expert at exotic
games, he must understand the basic concepts of standard games.
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