When you get down to basics, the check raise is simple. You have a good hand with opponents who act after you do - a hand you strongly suspect is better than...

“What you don’t spend, you don’t have to earn,” is an adage as true at the poker table as it is outside of it. Or, to quote the oft-quoted Amarillo Slim Preston,...

Hand values in poker fall into three basic categories, two of which are quite simple to play well. There are the top premium hands, the absolute trash and then everything else in...

Back in the day when new poker players were trying to grasp the intricacies of the game, ‘marginal hands’ was a bad phrase. They were to be avoided at all costs. The...

Razz is a simple game and the objective is to make the best possible low hand. The format of this game is the same as seven-card stud high but in razz only...

Stud high-low split pot is a form of seven-card stud. It is often referred to as stud high-low, stud eight or better, or stud/8. The key difference between this game and straight...

Omaha is a board game similar to hold’em in so far as there is a flop, a turn card, and a river card. Learning how to play Omaha is simple if you're...

There was a time when five-card stud reigned supreme and was considered the game, but over the years it has fallen out of favour along with five-card draw for more intricate and...

Seven card stud (also referred to as 7 card stud) is similar to Texas hold’em in so far as you use your best five cards out of a total of seven to...

The key difference between full ring and shorthanded cash games involves the number of poker players. Full ring is essentially a standard poker game where nine or ten players are seated. While some poker...