Draw poker: Poker played with individual cards only

The board and the common cards face-up in the center of the table do not exist necessarily in other variants of poker. Variants called « draw poker » can be played in some sets; this variant was moreover the most played in France and in Europe before. In this variety which is especially used to initiate beginners and played also in private tournaments, 3 to 8 players can play. Five private cards are distributed to each player. And this type of online poker games can be played in a “play with pot ", a play in which each player has to give a forced stake defined in advance, or a "play with blind". With this last kind of poker game, the first player on the left of the dealer bets at the same time the initial pot and the opening. Each player can follow with a same minimal amount of blind or can raise.

The betting round can so begin. If no betting was made yet in the round, a player can say «check» and give the turn to the next player, without betting anything. Betting is finished as soon as everybody bet the same stake. In pot game, betting is opened by the first player on the left of the dealer. For those who are still at stake, before turning back cards, the dealer asks to each remaining player for the number of cards they want to exchange. Each player announces alternately the number of cards that they don’t need, by throwing them face on the table, before receiving new ones. A player who didn’t exchange any card announces "served". Then a second betting round can continue with the same rules. At the end of this round, the remaining players pass to the showdown. The “Lowball”, the “Deuce to seven” or “Kansas City Lowball” and “Badugi” (four cards) are among the variants of draw poker games.