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Over 130 different poker variations exist and have been documented, with many more variations in use. Rules for the most popular poker variations. Links for further reading.
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Poker Variations
Very Basics
Poker is played with a standard pack of 52 cards. (Some variant games use multiple packs or add a few cards called jokers.) The cards are ranked (from high to low) Ace, King, Queen, Jack, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, Ace. (Ace can be high or low, but is usually high). There are four suits (spades, hearts, diamonds and clubs); however, no suit is higher than another. All poker hands contain five cards, the highest hand wins.
Some games have Wild Cards, which can take on whatever suit and rank their possessor desires. Sometimes jokers will be used as wild cards, other times, the game will specify which cards are wild (deuces, one-eyed jacks, or whatever).
At the final show of cards the different combinations are ranked in a standard poker hands format.
Popular Poker Variations
Over 130 different poker variations exist and have been documented. For the interested reader these are the most popular poker variations
Abyssinia
All For One or One For All
Anaconda
Auction
Baseball
Buddha's Folly
Caribbean Poker
Cincinnati
Chicago
Church
Cowpie Poker
Dakota
Dirty Schultz
Elevator
English Stud
Five Card Draw
Follow the Queen
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
Grocery Store Dots
Guts
Have a Heart
Henway
Howdy Doody
Indian Poker
Iron Cross
Jacks to Open, Trips to Win
Jack the Shifter
Lame Brain Pete
Let It Ride
Mexican Stud
Mexican Sweat
Midnight Baseball
Napalm
Omaha
Pai Gow Poker
Pick a Partner
The Price is Right
Psycho
Second Hand High
Selection/Rejection
Sequence
Spit in the Ocean
Strip Poker
Stud Poker
Ten
Texas Holdem
Three Five Seven
Tic Tac Toe
Trees
Wall Street
Want It? Want It? Got It!
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