Poker Variations for Texas Holdem

-Poker is the ultimate Have-it-your-way game. Roulette, blackjack, slot machines and other casinos games are pretty straightforward. The rules are the rules. But you can customize a poker game to suit your own needs. There are many variations. Texas Holdem is a variation. It is really Seven Card Stud Texas Holdem. Holdem can be played with different betting structures like limit or no limit.

One way to spice up the action is to make the game a High/Low game where the best poker hand splits the pot with the worst poker hand. You can tweak this even further by calling the game High/Low, Eights or Better. Now the low hand has to qualify with a hand that is 8 high or better. You can even say that flushes and straights won’t count against forming a low hand, and Aces can be counted high or low. So you might have an Ace high flush…and split the pot for having the worst hand.

An easy way to increase the pot is declare a Kill. When a player wins two hands in a row, the next hand is Killed. That means the blinds and the limits are doubled until a different player wins a pot. Or, you can call a Half-Kill. It’s the same as a Kill except the bets are not doubled, they are increased by 50%. So for Half-Kill, hands a $10/$20 game becomes a $15/$30 game.

Tournament Poker has a lot of its own variations and terms, such as Sit-and-Go or SNG. That’s a short, single-table tournament where you sit, then go. There are a lot of SNG online games. There’s also the Re-buy. If you lose all your poker chips, you are allowed to buy back in again. In a tournament, this usually allowed only for a certain amount of time at the beginning. Otherwise, it might go on forever. A Freeze Out is a winner-take-all game and there’s no tournament prize amount for second place. Some tournaments will feature a Bounty. That’s where a certain player is tagged as having a Bounty on him. Whoever eliminates him from the tournament wins a prize. There are lots of ways to tweak poker.

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Poker Variations for Texas Holdem