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DRAW POKER VARIATIONS

There comes a time in every play life when he or she tires of the old game. Not known by many Poker players are the count-less number of great games that bear a relationship, close or otherwise, to Draw Poker. Here then, are the greatest number and the most popular variations of Draw Poker games ever collected by one author from years of watching and analyzing all kinds of Draw Poker being played here and abroad.
I have divided the best-known Draw or Closed Poker-style games into four categories: (1) Basic Variants of Draw Poker; (2) Low and High-Low Poker Variants; (3) Spit-Card Variants; and (4) Miscellaneous Draw Poker Variants. Specific Poker games can be found in the index. However, you may know certain games under other names. In this case, determine the type of game you are interested in and look through the relevant category. You should find either the game itself or a close cousin.

BASIC VARIANTS OF DRAW POKER

The player will find the rules governing these games under General Rules for Poker and Basic Draw Poker Rules and in the text that follows.

Dealer’s Choice
Many weekly Poker games played in private homes throughout the United States favor this variation. Dealer’s Choice is exactly what the name implies. When it is your turn to deal, you have the privilege of naming the Poker variant to be played, and it is often necessary to give a little lesson in playing your version of the game. The dealer may deal any game he knows how to play and he is not limited to the common forms of Poker. He may select non-Poker games such as a game of his own invention or knowledge, which can be easily explained to the other players without too much loss of time.

Draw Poker –Deuces Wild
This variant of Draw Poker is played exactly as is Draw Poker, and all the rules that apply to Draw Poker apply to Deuces Wild, with the exception that a deuce is counted as any card a paler desires to call it. It may even be counted as a duplicate of a card already held by a player. Therefore the highest –ranking hand a player can hold is five aces. A player should take extreme care in calling the rank called must stand, contrary to the practice in Draw Poker, where the cards speak for themselves. Take, for example, a hand likes this: two of clubs, two of diamonds, two of spades, six of hearts, ten of hearts. The average player very often calls four tens instead of a ten-high straight flush. Deuces and natural cards have the same value. Rank of hands in Deuces Wild is described under “Rank of Poker Hands with One or More Wild Cards ”.

English Draw Poker
The English version of Draw Poker is played exactly as is Draw Poker, with this exception: that the leader is permitted to draw up to three cards only.

Draw Poker – Joker wild
When one or more jokers are added to a standard pack of 52 cards the game is called Joker Wild. The amount of skill required to play Joker Wild is reduced immediately, more and more with the addition of each extra joker. The more jokers added.

Draw Poker with a Blind Ante.
The variant of Draw Poker, which is also called Blind Tiger, and blind and Straddle, is recommended to the boys who like fast and furious action. The game is played exactly as in Draw is Draw Poker, with the following exceptions:

1. No players ante into the pot.
2. The players are not permitted to pick up their cards and look at them.
3. The leader must make the first blind bet, without looking at his hand
4. The players in proper rotation, as in Draw Poker, may either drop out, stay, raise or reraise.
5. After the blind betting has ended and two or more active players remain in the pot, active players are permitted to look at their cards.
6. The privilege of playing first goes to the players to the left of the player who made the last blind raise.
7. If no player raised blind, the privilege passes to the player to the dealer’s left.
8. The betting now proceeds as in Draw Poker, except that a player is not permitted to pass, or check. He must drop out, call the bet, play or stay by putting into the pot an amount equal to the bettor’s raise, or reraise