Pokertime is one of the applications that has grown the most in the online poker sector. One of the keys to its success has been the variety of games that Pokertime brings together in its app. By adding its range of games to the growing community of users, it is understandable why its app is among the most downloaded.
Texas Hold’em
Although there are games at Pokertime that are boring, it is fair to say that it follows the trends of the sector and that a good part of its tables are focused on the Texan variant of poker. As Texas Hold’em is the most popular modality and loved by players, it occupies a very high percentage of tables.
The types of games that Pokertime has in Texas Hold’em are No Limit Hold’em, No Limit, and the Shortdeck Hold’em game.
Shortdeck games are played the same as Texas Hold’em, except that a shorter deck is used (it only contains cards from 6 to Ace, only 36 in total), and maintains the hierarchy of hands, although with one caveat: here a flush beat a full house (in Texas Hold’em this is the other way around).
Omaha poker
The second most played type of poker after Texas Hold’em is Omaha poker, and it was clear that it could not be missing in an app like Pokertime.
However, at the moment there is no support for PLO (Pot Limit Omaha), although it is foreseeable that, if the community grows and there is a real demand, this will change to integrate this class of games and expand the offer of tables of your application.
Pokertime’s Omaha poker games focus on the Hi/Lo mode, also known as “8 or better”. We’re talking about a kind of game here where everything you’ve learned in Hold’em is almost useless, because even though you’re working with community cards to hit draws, a ratio is imposed to make the best hand. If that proportion is not respected, the hand is invalidated.
Razz poker
Razz poker is another variant that can be enjoyed at Pokertime. Here, the objective is the opposite of what is normally sought: to obtain the lowest five-card hand. The lowest hand (the best) is what is known as “five low”, formed by A 2 3 4 5, always of different suits, the combination does not matter. Keep in mind that straights and flushes have no validity in razz poker, so they would be ruled out.
Five Card Draw
In this game, each player receives five cards face down, being able to discard the cards they want, from none to all, receiving new cards for the ones they have set aside.
It maintains the hierarchy of conventional poker, but is more focused on being an action-packed draw game than a strategic game. And therein lies its trump card: its simplicity is what attracts many players looking for a simpler poker game, but with an important predominance of reading rivals, preserving all the essence of poker.
Five Card Stud
It is played without community cards, and discards do not take place either. Each player receives one card face up and one card face up. After the betting round, extra cards are dealt, some covered and others uncovered.
In this game, having uncovered cards makes it easier to read the game of the rivals, but it also allows misleading. That is why for many it has been a very fun way to enjoy poker in the past.
Seven Card Stud
7 Card Stud maintains the same essence as 5 Card Stud, but with some differences:
• Cards. If in 5 Card Stud the players received 5 cards in total, one face down and four face up, in 7 Card Stud the players receive two faces down and five face down.
• Bets. In 5 Card Stud, there is a round of betting after receiving one card face up and one card face up. In 7 Card Stud there are betting rounds after receiving the face-up cards, and after each face-up card. That is, there are more rounds of betting in this modality.
• Final hand. In the final hand of 5 Card Stud, each player forms the best hand with the five cards they were dealt during the game. In 7 Card Stud, you form with the best five cards out of the seven dealt. That is, in this modality there is greater flexibility to achieve it.
In addition to all these modalities, you have to see another class of Pokertime games such as cash games, which offer direct action with cash prizes.
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