An Overview of Other Community Card Poker Games
This text has been prepared by The Eureka Kid, on behalf of TheOmahaSplit.com
Texas Hold 'Em
Texas Hold ‘Em is the most popular poker game in the world today. It is a community card game, the same as Pineapple, Omaha and Omaha High/Low. It is played predominantly in no limit and limit betting structures, with some pot limit play. Texas Hold ‘Em tournaments are generally no limit affairs. Cash games in the past were predominantly played with a limit betting structure, but the advent of TV poker has see no limit cash games become very popular also.
The basic play of the game is as follows… There is a dealer button and the player to the immediate left of the button posts a small forced bet (the small blind) and the player to their left posts the big blind. These blinds are forced bets made by players before they see their cards and designed to force action each hand.
Each player is then dealt two hold cards face down. A round of betting proceeds beginning with the player left of the big blind and ending once all betting is equal. Three cards are then dealt face up in the middle of the table, known as the flop. Another round of betting ensues then one single card is the place face up, known as the turn. A betting round on the turn takes place and then one final card is dealt face up in the middle of the table, known as the river. A final round of betting takes place and then any players still in the hand show down their cards. Each player has to make their best five card poker hand using any combination of their own hole cards and community cards in the middle of the table.
Omaha Hold 'Em
Omaha is also a community card poker game, and is most popular in Europe. The main differences between Omaha and Texas Hold 'Em are the following. Firstly, players are dealt four down cards instead of two. Secondly, Omaha is seldom played with a ‘no limit’ betting structure, it is mostly played as pot-limit and sometimes limit.
The betting rounds and dealing of the cards in the middle of the table is the same. When it comes to showdown, each player does make their best five-card hand, but they MUST do so using three cards from the board and two from their own. This is different to Texas Hold 'Em, where players can use four or five of the cards on the board to make their best hand.
Pineapple & Crazy Pineapple
The game is exactly the same as Texas Hold ‘Em, except that each player is dealt three cards to begin with, one of which they must discard during the game. In regular Pineapple, players must discard the card they don’t want before the flop. Contrasting this, in Crazy Pineapple players get to see the flop with their three hole cards and then discard the one they don’t want after the flop and before the turn. The set-up and play is exactly the same as Texas Hold ‘Em, making Pineapple and easy to learn, but new and exciting game to play!
For more information on Texas Hold 'Em visit Poker Acer - The Ultimate Guide To Becoming A Poker Ace! |
