For the longest time the casinos thought of poker as a waste of floor space, and many of them didn't offer anything but poker games where players played against the house. Things have changed.
Now, many of the top casinos in Las Vegas have wonderful poker rooms, and online casinos have joined them by offering all types of multiplayer poker to their customers.
Texas Holdem
No Limit Texas Hold'em has been referred to as the "Cadillac" of poker. The world's biggest poker tournament, the "World Series of Poker", is a No Limit Texas Hold'em event. Of course you can find online casinos with a poker room dealing holdem games, night and day.
Poker Tournaments
You can sit down and play a tournament, where every player starts with the same amount of chips. As players lose thier chips, they are knocked out of the tournament. in the end, there will be one player who has all the chips.
That player takes down the first place prize. Prizes are usually awarded for several top spots.
7 Card Stud
Seven card stud was the popular form of poker before the days of Texas Holdem. Unlike Hold'em, where players all try to make use of shared "community cards" that are face up on the tables, in 7 Card Stud each player has their own hand.
Some of the cards are delat face up, with other "hole" cards dealt face down. There are several rounds of betting in a 7 Card Stud hand.
Lowball Poker
Lowball poker isn't a game, it's a style of poker where the lowest hand wins. So, players are trying to make the worst hands that they can.
There are several forms of lowball poker that you can play online - and it's usually easier to find lowball games online than it is to find them in a land based casino. RAZZ is a version of 7 Card Stud where the worst hand wins.
Draw Poker
It is realy pretty hard to find a draw poker game online. In draw poker, which is very much like "video poker", players receive a number of cards. They then decide which cards they would like to keep and which ones they would like to hand in in order to redraw.
Once they receive fresh cards on the redraw they know the strength of their hand and bet against other players accordingly.
