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  • #16
    Quoth Silent-Hunter View Post
    I wish I actualy knew the differences between the different kinds of poker. I love poker, not sure what kind I play though, since it's just me and my friends, with no betting or anything. I can't afford to gamble more than a few dollars every once in a while, but I love casino games. I must say, when I visited Vegas, I was rather upset the casinos wouldn't let me in! Of course I was 5, so that's understandable.
    I'm not an expert, but a quick run down on the most popular ones.
    Texas Hold-Em seems to be the most popular now. There is a big blind and small blind (which also are the max and min bets for raises), those two players have to bet before they get any cards. Each player is then dealt two cards, at which point they can call the big blind, raise, or fold. After everyone has placed their bets, the first three communal cards are dealt (I don't remember the names of each deal, they actually do have names), the process of placing bets off of your new hand ) is repeated. Once that is done, the fourth communal card is dealt, bets are placed, and repeat again a third time with the fifth and final communal card. At this point everyone shows their two cards and whoever has the best 5 card hand between their two cards and three cards of their choice of the communal wins.
    Five card draw is the next most popular, and it is the standard poker game. Each player is dealt 5 cards, they may chose to discard a portion (or all or none) of their hand and be dealt new cards, bets may either be placed only at the beginning, or also after the discard, and whoever has the best 5 card hand wins.
    Then there is Pai-Gow, which is strictly each player against the house. This game is somewhat unique in two ways, first the entire deck is delt every single time, no matter how many players there are and second (and more relevant to the discussion) is that you are playing two hands at the same time. The dealer (or a machine) shuffles the deck, then they will either use a random number generator or three dice to determine who gets dealt first (there are 7 positions, the dealer plus 6 player positions, all of which are dealt to whether or not a player is there). Each player and the dealer is dealt 7 cards, and this is 7 cards from the top of the deck, not alternating through each player as is traditional in card games, the three cards remaining are displayed face down in the middle of the table to confirm the proper number of cards has been dealt. Once dealt your hand you will split it into two hands, your top hand and bottom hand. Rules dictate that your bottom hand must be stronger than your top hand... that does not mean that your bottom hand has to be the strongest possible. There is many strategies where you want to sacrafice the strength of your bottom hand (Say you are dealt two pair, it is often better to make your top hand the lower pair and your bottom hand the higher pair), because to win both hands have to be better than the dealer. Now, this is bad news for your, because getting two very strong hands is hard, but on the same token, it is great news for you because getting two strong hands is hard. If only one hand is better, the game ends in a push. The real skill comes in knowing how to split up your hands to maximize your chance of winning both hands, or at the very least making sure you don't lose both. I have had several times where sacrificing my lower hand was the right thing to do, because you don't have to beat the dealer by much, just have to beat them, and not sacraficing the bottom hand wouldn't have given me enough to beat the top hand. On the flip side, there were times where that came back to bite me because the dealer was able to make two very strong hands and had I kept my strong hand together I could have caused a push... but oh well, that's the nature of the game.

    There are of course other types of poker, but those are the three that seem most popular and that I'm familiar with.

    eta- as soon as I hit post I realized another one that isn't as popular but I am familiar with.
    Let It Ride. This is a variation of Texas Hold Em that is player versus a payout table. It is essentially Texas Hold Em in reverse. You start by placing bet that is at least 3 times the minimum bet, up to the maximum bet. You are dealt three cards, at this point if you desire, you may remove 1/3 of your bet. After each player either removes a portion of their bet or lets it ride (hence the name of the game) the first communal card is dealt, and again each player may decide to remove a third of their bet or let it ride. Then the second card is dealt, and you will show your hand (which you are required to keep hidden until this point, even though it is against a payout table and not other players, knowing what cards have already been dealt will affect the decision on whether to remove a portion of your bet or let it ride) and you will be paid according to the pay out table (with a pair of 10s or better typically being the lowest hand to have any payout, and that only pays 1-1, anything less than that results in a lost bet).
    Last edited by smileyeagle1021; 05-22-2013, 11:54 AM.
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    • #17
      The rounds of betting in Texas Hold'Em are: the blind (where you have no information except your own hole cards), the flop (the first three community cards), the turn (fourth), and the river (fifth).

      Omaha is a variant of Texas Hold'Em where each player is dealt four cards instead of two. Hands are made not using just any combination of 5 cards, but always two from your hole cards and three from the community set. Everything else is the same as in Texas.

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      • #18
        One time I was at Lone STar and the waitress spilled ranch near me. I don't even think it hit me and I got my meal comped. They kept coming back to make sure I was okay. It was getting annyoing to be honest. I wasn't expecting a free meal or anything like that. They still got a really nice tip though. I have to believe there are some people who figure they didn't pay anything for the meal, so they don't have to pay for it.

        I do gamble once a month...usually slots though.

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