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	Poker Variants (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		stud, each poker player has five cards of his hand exposed at this point (two of his own plus three on the board), so it is possible for a flush or straight to be the high hand for the purpose of first bet.
		That is, the poker game begins with each poker player being dealt three downcards and one upcard; each poker player must discard one of his hole cards at some point during the poker game as determined ahead of time.
		The poker game ends when only a single poker player has the guts to stay "in", and thus the pot is taken without replenishment.
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	How to Play Poker
		Bluffing is a primary feature of poker, one that distinguishes it from other vying games and from other games that make use of poker hand rankings.
		Because of the increasing coverage of poker events, poker pros are becoming more and more like celebrities, with poker fans all over the world entering into expensive tournaments for the chance to play with them.
		Poker uses a standard pack of playing cards, 52 cards (there are some poker games that use more or less depending upon the variations such as adding wild cards like jokers).
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	Rule Of Poker - Online Poker Rooms To Play
		The card game poker is the most popular of a class of games called vying games, in which players with fully or partially concealed cards make wagers into a central pot, after which the pot is awarded to the remaining player or players with the best combination of cards.
		There are also many variants of poker, loosely categorized as draw poker, stud poker, community card poker, and miscellaneous poker games.
		Such phrases as ace in the hole, ante up, beats me, blue chip, call the bluff, cash in, pass the buck, poker face, stack up, when the chips are down, wild card, and others are used in everyday conversation even by those unaware of their origins at the poker table.
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	Poker
		There are lots of interesting issues involving poker, and many of them can be best discussed be separating the issues so that the various parts of the game can receive the focuessed attention needed to understand and comment on some of the complexities.
		However, there are variants of the basic game that sometimes decree the `lowest' hand to be the winner, and other times split the pot, in some fashion, between the high and low hands.
		Near poker does not have wild cards and considers Aces to be `High' in all circumstances, with the exception of that Aces complete 5-4-3-2 straights (and straight flushes).
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	Card Games: Poker
		Poker Listings is an online poker guide and directory with information on online poker rooms, tournaments, bonuses, rules, strategy and many other resources.
		Poker Champs, founded in 2004 by Gus Hansen, pays a percentage of the rake back to players, and operates a pyramid structure, by which players also benefit from the activities of other players they introuduce.
		Poker Drill Master is a shareware poker training program that calculates pot odds and winning probabilities and outs, and enables you to test various pre-flop decision methodologies.
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	Miscellaneous Poker Variations
		These games are all poker games that use a standard ranking of hands, but aren't dealt as any of the variations above.
		In this variant, even buying the last card doesn't assure you of being able to keep a 5 card hand intact.
		Each player may draw from 1 to x (x is the number of cards dealt) cards as in draw poker.
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	Rules of Card Games: Invented Poker Variations
		Normally poker hands are ranked, as much as possible, on the frequency with which the hands occur on the deal.
		VARIATION: after the discard, draw and showdown, a 'dummy hand' is dealt, and the players who folded suring the betting collectively decide how to play it to beat one of the winning hands.
		This is a poker variant called switch which can be added to most other poker games. The primary bet is made. The deal of five cards (or seven, if that is the rule in your game). A round of betting and folding follows as usual.
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	Poker Tournament Variants - FreePokerTraining.Com
		A poker tournament is typically played in the following manner: players start with a standard amount of chips, the blinds gradually escalate, and players are gradually eliminated.
		Here is a list of common tournament variants, as well as some ideas about how to adapt your strategy to them.
		Often, the poker rooms are sneaky and extract far too much in the way of entry fees from these steps tournaments.
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	Poker Variants \| Poker Rules - Hold'em Variants
		is a seven card poker game with simple rules that a beginner can easily learn and begin to play immediately.
		Players remaining in the hand will then show their cards and the winning poker hand will be awarded the pot.
		All cards of the same rank are now wild (but The Good card is not shared and may not be used to complete someone's poker hand...it is merely an indicator of the wild card).
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		The game of poker has many variations, most of them created in the United States in the mid-1900s.
		Such games rarely achieve the popularity of the well-known variants, for the good reason that the well-known variants have been selected for playability over many years.
		"Playability" varies with the players, though, so it is quite common for a single group of players with shared tastes to become accustomed to one of these variants.
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	THE POKER PLAYER ASSOCIATION
		Most popular poker variants can be loosely classified as draw poker, stud poker, or community card poker; miscellaneous poker games exist.
		See the articles on poker variants and hand rankings for details about the order of play and hand rankings for the most common poker variants.
		The name of the game likely descended from the French poque, which descended from the German pochen ('to knock'), but it is not clear whether the origins of poker itself lie with the games bearing those names.
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	Some Poker Variants
		NAME: 5-card Draw TYPE: poker NUMBER OF PLAYERS: 3-6, 7 w/small possiblilty of reshuffle INITIAL DEAL: five down cards to each player PLAY: There is a betting round after the deal, starting with the player to the left of the dealer.
		The one variation between this and 7-card stud is that the high spade in the hole splits the spot.
		If the middle card is good for you, then you are pretty happy, but then again, you don't get to see it till the end and if you stay in till the end hoping that the middle card is going to make your hand, it will end up being the worst card possible.
	www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu /usr/gc00/reviews/poker.html (3714 words)

	Blank Frank's Poker Variant Collection
		Now that I live in the DC area, I hope to some day research poker variants in the Library of Congress.
		But take Just a Buck Just a Buck was a reaction to Buck Seventy Five, so it is a variant of that game, even though it is more similar to Low Chicago, which is what Buck Seventy Five is a variant of.
		Nonpoker games are games that are not poker, but are often played in home poker games, and share some elements of poker.
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	Basic Poker Rules
		However, when you introduce the concept of betting, poker gains quite a bit of skill and psychology.
		This is meant as a very basic primer into the rules of poker, for more information, get a book on the game (or start playing with a group of people who know how.
		Poker is played from a standard pack of 52 cards.
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	Stud Poker Variants
		PLAY: As in 7 card stud, with the following variations: whenever a natural pair is dealt up to a player, the next card dealt up (and all cards of the same rank) becomes wild.
		The game named must be an accepted, named game within your poker circle-- no calling "6's wild" when you've got a pair of sixes (unless, of course, your group routinely plays a sixes wild game).
		CMU's Gaming Club for getting me started with their list.
	www.gamereport.com /poker/stud.html (3611 words)

	PokerTips.org - Poker Strategy - Tournament Variants
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		A more complete strategy guide to satellite tournaments can be found in our WSOP Satellite Strategy article.
		This news article illustrates how the prize structures of the "step higher" and "step lower" tournaments at Party Poker result in an incredibly large entry fees.
	www.pokertips.org /strategy/t-variants.php (1697 words)

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		Poker Rules > Public cardroom rules > Public cardroom etiquette
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	poker site top online wagering List of poker variants (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		We also provide a wealth of new player resources including several articles on online poker safety, online poker tips, Texas Hold'em beginner betting, poker tournament tips and much more.
		Whether you are a beginner poker player or a season poker pro, ThePokerSource has something for all players.
		Browse our large selection of recommended poker books or email us with your poker questions.
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	Poker variants (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		STANDARD VARIATIONS: The cards are passed to other than the person to the left (Ex.
		STANDARD VARIATIONS: Rainouts - queen of spades up means that the cards are redealt, but only for those players who are still in.
		STANDARD VARIATIONS: One evil variation of this game is to make the middle card wild.
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	Poker Variants
		You may wish to refer to the list of Poker hand rankings.
		This class of games includes all games in which players receive their full complement of cards at the initial deal, then exchange some of them during the course of play.
		This class includes games which do not use the standard poker hand rankings to determine a winner.
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	Some Poker Variants (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		If you have any games which don't appear on this list, I'd love to add them.
		Games which have been changed or added are marked with the date of their change.
		The Game Report Online, the online version of America's premier quarterly journal of board, party, card, dice, word, family and strategy games.
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