Poker is a game that is not restricted to one variant or version. It is a dynamic game with so many variants you can never get tired of this game. Since you can play cards online, let's have a look at the card games you can play.
These are just a few of the many types of card games you can play online.
- 3-card poker - It is a popular game that won't take you much time to understand and master. You play against your dealer with nothing more than three cards.
- 4-card poker - This is very similar to a three-card poker. You play against your dealer with four cards.
- 5-card - This one is the most popular variant of poker played with cash yet. The player is expected to make the best five-card hand to win the pot.
- Rummy - If you want to play poker with real money, Rummy is the game to play. It is the most popular cash game of all. All you have to do is make melds of three and four of a kind to win the game. You get served with thirteen cards, and it gets played with two to six players.
Furthermore, we shall speak about one of the other exciting poker variant known as 7-card stud hi-lo. This game is a wicked variant of poker where you have to split the pot. However, it is not the same as a 7-card stud. 7-card hi-lo gets played with a minimum number of two players and a maximum of eight players as many other traditional poker variants. Like 7-card stud, you get dealt with seven cards out of which three are face down, aka the down cards. And the remaining four are face up aka up cards.
The 7-card stud hi-lo's unique feature is that out of the seven cards you get dealt with, you have to make a hand out of the five best cards, but you make the best five-card high hand and the best five-card low hand. This is how the pot gets split between two winners. One of the winners will have the best five-card high hand, and one of the winners will have the best five cards low hand. You win the pot if you have the best or the worst hand since there can be multiple winners.
However, if there is no low card hand qualifying for the 7-card stud hi-lo game, then the best five-card high hand takes home the entire pot. As per the rules, to qualify for a best five-card low hand, you must hold all eight or lower cards than that. On this hand, however, the Ace would get considered as the lowest. The low hand must also not have any pairs or qualify for the best low hand. The best possible low hand in this game would be an Ace, two, three, four, and five, and the highest low hand would be eight, seven, six, five, and four, since suits don't hold a rank in this game.
So, there you have the rules of how to play 7-card stud hi-lo.