How many types of Poker are there?

Question

I like to play Poker with a few of my mates every now and then. Sometimes they will bring some extra people with them which is great! The trouble is some of them play a different way to us, or don't understand the rules to which we play. Is there a universal poker game or set of rules? I.e instead of 2 card draw and 5 card hold-em?

Answer 1

Poker is not so old game, and there are quite many variations of it. Even holdem has more than one version - limit, no limit , pot limit... However, holdem is easiest to learn

usually, so at the moment it is most popular (except strip one, but who cares who wins on it ? :))) )

Another popular versions are 7 card stud (more popular in usa) and Omaha (more european), which have subversions on their own. This still leaves a lot of less popular poker versions out, including chinese, Razz, etc. There is even a version when you switch games played each couple of hands (H.O.R.S.E)

I suggest agreeing beforehand what game you would play.

And a more important thing is to simply have fun playing

Answer 2

Too many to name. I have a book at home that lists 1001 poker games!

The most popular right now is Texas Hold 'Em.

Other played in casinos are Stud, Omaha, Omaha 8 or Better, Razz, and H.O.R.S.E. which is a combination of all that I mentioned (the game changes every half-hour or every deal around depending on where you play).

So many poker games, so little time...LOL  Good luck!

Answer 3

The most popular of all the major poker games these days is Texas Hold'em.  That's the one you see on TV 99% of the time.

The most universally accepted rules for the game is Robert's Rules.

Answer 4

There are tons of variations of poker, growing up playing home games you learn there are so many variations that were someone to try to list them here Yahoo would almost shut down due to data overload.

If you want to limit yourself to games that are spread in card rooms that is a managable answer.  Obviously There are the three variations of texas holdem which are limit, pot limit and no limit.  A game popular in the Florida card rooms is pineapple and it's crazy sibling, crazy pineapple.  Then there is omaha and it's many variations, pot limit omaha, limit omaha and in some places no-limit omaha.  There are the split pot versions of omaha known as omaha 8 or better (or hi/lo) played mostly as a limit game, sometimes with a half kill (a liquid variation on the betting levels), every now and then omaha 8 or better is played for pot limit and rarely played as no-limit. So far all the card games named are what as know as "flop games" that name being self explainatory.

The next group of games are stud variants.  There is 5 card stud which is pretty much a dinosaur and is getting harder to find except in some western card rooms.  The next is 7 card stud which used to be the primary game played in card rooms until the explosion of texas holdem.  My personal favorite card game is a split pot version of 7 card stud known as 7 card stud 8 or better, not to be confussed with 7 card stud hi/lo which doesn't have a qualifier for the low pot.   Then there is razz, which is basically low ball 7 card stud. And once upon a time you could find Chicago hi or Chicago low which is a split pot version of 7 card stud where the high spade or the low spade (depending on the game) in the hole took half the pot.

When you didn't think it could get any more confussing along come the draw games (though seldom spread anymore).  You know about 5 card draw ( I prefer jacks or better version) and then you have a really fun and interesting game, 2-7 triple draw which, once you learn it, is a hoot to play.  

I have now listed all the games I have ever seen spread in card rooms, but alas, there are the mixed games with the best known being H.O.R.S.E., a limit game made up of rotations of holdem, omaha 8ob, razz, stud (7 card and hi) and  stud (7 card) 8ob.  Probably the next most popular mixed game is H.A. which is pot limit holdem and  plo (pot limit omaha hi).  There are a few mixed games played as tournaments (the two above being the most common), and any number of the games in this answer mixed up played as what are known as mixed cash games, which , by the way, are typically cash games too rich for me.

I would recommend reading Doyle Brunson's super systems I and II which explains almost all of the above mentioned games to some extent (pineapple and crazy pineapple are not even mentioned in the books).

Answer 5

too many to count