Poker Games

Poker games are listed here alphabetically, including both well-known (Hold’em) and less well known (Bidrectional Chowaha). Of course, some of the names are surprising (Chowaha is not next to Four-Card Chowaha) but they are still technically alphabetized.

There are a lot of games here. Historically at BARGE, Chowaha is quite popular, and the Pot-Limit Binglaha game has been known to run very late on Saturday night.

Mixed games based around HORSE are mainstays, particularly with something substituting out for Razz. One variant is HOSER, which sometimes means Razz is gone and Action Razz is in its place.

Oklahoma appears to be popular with dealers for a reason that the “cash game” rule should make clear.

Variations

The wide variety of already existing poker games lends itself naturally to making up even more variations.

Some games here are decribed as variations that can be applied to multiple other games. These are described in an abridged fashion to save space and to make the variation apply to more games.

A variation that applies to only one game will be described on the page for that game.

It’s somewhat arbitrary to differentiate between a game and a variation, and we attempted consistency in this book.

For clarity, and to highlight popular combinations, we usually re-state the rules of the game rather than try to describe the variations that make up the game.

However, some variations are simple enough to just explain in isolation. This is either because they are applied to multiple games, they are rare, or both. These are marked as variation in the title section.