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Five Cards Draw poker

Gameplay:

5 cards are dealt to each poker player, and a betting round takes place.

In this poker variation, each player, starting with player to the left of the dealer and on, can replace 3 of his cards with 3 fresh ones. After the switching round, there's another betting round, starting with the player to the left of the last player who raised or placed a bet. Then the hands are shown, and the strongest hand wins this poker session.

There are some variants to this type of poker:

• A wildcard is made. Sometimes the lowest card is picked as wildcard.
• 5 Draw Low-Ball: Lowest hand wins the poker pot
• 5 Draw High-Low: Poker Players declare if they play high or low before the last betting round. The pot is split between the highest hand and the lowest hand players.
• Money-Back: High-Low poker game, betting is by pot-limit, are the switching round there's a betting round, player flip their cards one a time and do a betting round after every flip, high-low declaring is done after the last betting round. Straights and flushes arn't allowed when playing Low, so that an Ace-2-3-4-5 combination is the best low hand.
• Jackpots (Jacks-or-better): A betting round must start with a poker player that has a pair of Jacks or better. In cases which no player can open, the hand is over and a new round starts, only now the players need Queens or better to open the round. If there's no opener they'll need Kings and then aces, and then back to Jacks. The opener must show his opening cards before the round ends. If so happenes that the opening player chooses to trade-in one of his opening cards in the switching round, he must show his opening cards then.
• Jacks or Back: Similar to Jackpots, if any poker player can open Jacks. In case of no opener, the hand is played low and each of the players can open, starting with the player to the left of the dealer. If still no one openes, the round ends and a new one starts with a opening Jacks or higher again.
• Progression: Like Jackpots players need pair of jacks or high to open and triplet to win this poker game. Hands are dealt until a player has a triplet and wins. In case a player folds, he will not be dealt for the rest of the game.
• Kings and Low-Men: This means that kings and the lowest cards in your hand are wildcards.
• No Vaseline: Similar to Kings and low-men, only that the opener must win the round, or else he alone must pay the poker pot's worth to the winner. This poker variation ends when the player who opened wins the round.
• Connect Four: 4 cards and the lowest card in the hand are wildcards. In case the lowest card is a 4 - then it's the only wildcard. Aces are always considered as high when checking for wildcards.
• Spit in the ocean: 4 cards are dealt to each poker player and one card is put in the middle of the poker table. While the dealer is dealing cards, a player can shout "spit", and then the dealer must throw the card he's currently dealing onto the middle of the table. The cards in the middle of the poker table are communal. Only 7 players can play this type of poker.
• Phlegm: Similar to the poker variation, "Spin in the ocean", only that a betting round is done after each flip of a card from the hands.
• In the Snatch: Similar to Spit in the ocean, only that the wildcard is put faced down in the middle of the poker table after each of the players has 4 cards. A betting round is then done, and flipping the wildcard ensues another betting round.
• Phlegm in the Snatch: Similar to Phlegm poker, only that the wildcard is put faced down in the middle of the table after each of the poker players has 4 cards. Like in Snatch games there's a betting round prior to the flipping of the wildcards, only now every flip of the hands card is followed by another poker betting around.