Playcard gamesPoker
Variants decided by five-card hands.
- 2-10 players
- Standard deck
- Betting
What Poker is
Every poker variant is decided by five-card hands. Hand ranking, from highest: straight flush, four of a kind, full house, flush, straight, three of a kind, two pair, one pair, high card. Poker is a family rather than a single game: the variants differ in how the cards arrive — two private cards and five shared ones in Texas hold'em and Omaha, cards dealt face up one at a time in the stud games, a single exchange in five-card draw — and Chicago even scores the hands before playing them out as tricks. What every one of them shares is the ranking above.
Read the full Poker rules →The Poker variants
Pick a variant to read its rules.
Texas hold'em
Two cards in hand, five shared on the table.
Omaha
Four cards in hand, but exactly two of them must play.
Seven-card stud
No shared cards — four of your seven are face up for all to read.
Five-card draw
Five cards, one exchange, nothing on show until the end.
Five-card stud
One card hidden, four dealt face up one at a time.
Chicago
Poker hands and tricks, first to 52 points.