Poker Articles (Page 4)

Poker Articles

For many years before the Texas Hold’em craze took over poker, Seven Card Stud was the most popular card room game. It spawned several variants that are still played widely today, inclu...
A very popular variation of professional poker is the high/low split-pot game called “Omaha Hi-Low Split 8 or Better” or simply “Omaha 8.” This version has the highest hand and the lowe...
One of the most demanding, and most fun, versions of professional-level poker is the split-pot game known as Seven Card Stud Hi-Low, whereby the best and worst five cards out of seven d...
Let It Ride is a poker-type game inspired by Five-Card Stud. It was first introduced to casinos in 1993 by Shuffle Master, the automatic-shuffling machine manufacturer. Let It Ride offe...
The search for new and exciting casino table games is never-ending. One of the most recent innovations to debut at casinos online and off is Four Card Poker. It was the invention of Rog...
Still a relatively new game, first introduced in 2001, Caribbean Hold’em is played against the dealer as a variation of the poker game known as Texas Hold’em. It has already gained popu...
Three-Card Poker is quite an easy game to learn and play. It has some similarities to Blackjack, such as everyone at the table playing directly against the dealer, who controls the Bank...
Also known as Caribbean Poker, Caribbean Stud, also is a rather new card game that was first introduced aboard cruise ships in the 1980s. After casinos added a progressive jackpot to th...
Pai Gow Poker is a modern casino table game played with 52 cards plus one Joker added to the deck. It should not be confused with the ancient Chinese game called “Pai Gow,” which is pla...
Stealing the blinds is a Poker practice well known to experienced players. It refers to the strategy of winning both of the blinds (forced bets used to establish the pot) by making a ra...
Gone is the notion that Sit n Go Poker is a side event between scheduled tournaments and ring games (cash games). The genre has truly come into its own at online Poker rooms, and those ...
Poker professional and author David Sklansky gets full credit for expressing the Fundamental Theorem of Poker in lay terms. It describes a way of thinking and approaching the game, as f...