5-Card Draw Poker
Draw poker and especially 5 card draw poker is the classic and traditional
version of draw poker. This is how 5-card draw poker is played:
- 5 cards are dealt to each online poker player, and a betting round
takes place.
- Each player, starting with the player to the left of the dealer can
replace 3 of his cards with 3 fresh ones.
- Another betting round takes place, starting with the player to the left
of the last player who raised or placed a bet.
- The hands are shown, and the strongest hand wins this draw poker game.
5 Card Poker
Variants
Here are some of the more popular variants to 5 card poker online:
- Jacks or Back :
Similar to Jackpots, if any poker player
can open Jacks. In case of no opener, the hand is played low and each of the
poker players can open, starting with the player to the left of the dealer.
If still no one opens, the round ends and a new one starts with opening
Jacks or higher again.
- Progression :
Like Jackpots players need pair of jacks or
high to open and triplet to win this online poker game. Hands are dealt
until a player has a triplet and wins. In case a player folds, he will not
be dealt for the rest of the game.
- 5 Draw Low-Ball :
Lowest hand wins the poker online pot.
- 5 Draw High-Low :
Poker Players declare if they play high
or low before the last betting round. The online poker pot is split between
the highest hand and the lowest hand players.
- Money-Back :
High-Low poker game, betting is by pot-limit,
are the switching round there's a betting round, player flip their cards
one a time and do a betting round after every flip, high-low declaring is
done after the last betting round. Straights and flushes aren't allowed
when playing Low, so that an Ace-2-3-4-5 combination is the best low hand.
- Jackpots (Jacks-or-better) :
A betting round must start with
a player that has a pair of Jacks or better. In cases where no player can
open, the hand is over and a new round starts; only now the online poker
players need Queens or better to open the round. If there's no opener
they'll need Kings and then aces, and then back to Jacks. The opener must
show his opening cards before the round ends. If it so happens that the
opening player chooses to trade-in one of his opening cards in the
switching round, he must show his opening cards then.
- Phlegm in the Snatch :
Similar to Phlegm poker, only that
the wildcard is put faced down in the middle of the table after each poker
players has 4 cards. Like in Snatch games there's a betting round prior to
the flipping of the wildcards, only now every flip of the hands card is
followed by another poker betting around.
- Kings and Low-Men :
This means that kings and the lowest
cards in your hand are wildcards.
- No Vaseline :
Similar to Kings and low-men, only that the
opener must win the round, or else he alone must pay the poker online pot's
worth to the winner. This poker online variation ends when the player who
opened wins the round.
- Connect Four :
4 cards and the lowest card in the hand are
wildcards. In case the lowest card is a 4 - then it's the only wildcard.
Aces are always considered as high when checking for wildcards.
- Spit in the Ocean :
4 cards are dealt to each poker online
player and one card is put in the middle of the poker online table. While
the dealer is dealing cards, a player can click "spit", and then the dealer
must throw the card he's currently dealing onto the middle of the table.
The cards in the middle of the poker table are communal. Only 7 players can
play this type of poker.
- Phlegm :
Similar to the poker online variation, "Spin in the
ocean", only that a betting round is done after each flip of a card from the hands.
- In the Snatch :
Similar to Spit in the ocean, only that the
wildcard is put faced down in the middle of the poker online table after
each of the players has 4 cards. A betting round is then done, and flipping
the wildcard ensues another betting round.
