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Official Poker Rules

Welcome to Official Poker Rules Page

Welcome to NeverwinPoker.com's guide for beginners on how to play Texas Hold'em, Omaha, Omaha Hi-Lo, Seven-Card Stud; the four most popular forms of poker today. Included, you will also find a guide explaining how to play all of these games Pot-Limit and No-Limit style.

The following pages illustrate the betting procedures, the order of action, when the hand starts and ends, and much more. We also define many common poker terms such as blinds, button, position, all-in, fold, raise, check, bet, call, etc.

Poker Hand Ranking

Almost every style of poker uses a standard single 52 card deck, although the majority of games remove the jokers from play. The hand ranking for Texas Holdem is as follows:

Royal Flush > Straight Flush > Four of a kind > Full House > Flush > Straight > Three of a kind > Two Pair > One Pair > High Card

List Of Poker Games

  • Texas Hold'em Poker Rules - Most Popular Poker Game in the World. Almost all Online Poker rooms supports this type of poker game.
  • Omaha High Poker Rules - Second most popular Poker Game. There are many rooms where you can play or practice Omaha High Poker
  • Omaha Hi-Lo (8 or Better) Rules - Another Omaha type that is very popular Poker Game. There are many rooms where you can play or practice Omaha Hi-Lo (8 or Better) Poker
  • Seven/7 card stud Poker Rules - Seven-card stud is a variant of stud poker. Until the recent increase in popularity of Texas hold 'em, seven-card stud was the most popular poker variant in home games across the United States, and in casinos in the eastern part of the country.
  • Five/5 card stud Poker Rules - This is earliest form of the card game, stud poker, originating during the American Civil War, but is less commonly played today than many other more popular poker games - clear from its absence from the World Series of Poker.
  • Crazy Pineapple Poker Rules - Tired of plain old Texas Hold'em? Try this variation to the game, Pineapple Poker, or "Crazy Pineapple." Pineapple poker is almost identical to Hold'em so first make sure you know the rules to Texas Hold'em, because this game starts out different... but ends up the same.
  • Crazy Pineapple, Eight or Better Poker Rules - Crazy Pineapple is usually played high-low split, 8-or-better. A player may use any combination of two holecards and the five boardcards for the high hand and another (or the same) combination for the low hand.
  • Double Flop Hold'em Poker Rules - Double flop Hold'Em poker is a variation of Texas Hold'em where you deal out two separate boards or community cards. Each player is still dealt out two hold cards to make their hands, but they will get to make two seperate hands to play, one for each set of community cards.
  • Deuce to Seven Triple Draw Poker Rules - Continuing with the trend of games to call at a home poker game that 1) are played for low and 2) will confuse your fellow players, why don't you try out Deuce-to-seven Triple Draw? It's like five-card draw, only with much more action and much, much more pain.
  • Ace to Five Triple Draw Variant Poker Rules - Any game above can be played with two or three draw phases and therefore three or four betting rounds.
  • Kill Game Poker Rules - Sometimes a fixed-limit game is played as a kill game. Such a game is played with an additional blind, called the kill blind. The kill blind can be posted from any position at the table.
  • Heads-up Poker Rules - Heads up poker is a variation of poker for players who crave fast, intense action.
  • Strip Poker Rules - If you like poker and you enjoy getting naked, this is probably the game for you.
  • Razz Poker Strategy

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NWP Rules of Poker

Offered up for your amusement by NWP Editor in Chief, FckVwls

Although any poker rules book is inescapably based on “Robert's Rules of Poker,” written by the great Bob Ciaffone for the Poker Players Association back in 1984, NWP has taken the liberty of updating the master and creating for you a poker rules book for the typical degenerate NWP poker player of today.

While Ciaffone formatted and organized his extensive manuscript to bring to poker some sort of standardization and decency, NWP offers up this amended poker rules book in an effort to school your dense, ignorant ass so you can be seen at a B&M without embarrassing the holy shit out of yourself. Of course we assume you will embarrass yourself anyway, but FFS, sit down and read this shit and try to learn the proper way of doing things. Pay special attention to the Etiquette section, as it is well known that most NWP members are rude sons of bitches and need to calm the fuck down when they play.

Please note: this rulebook may be copied or downloaded by anyone, provided it is not sold for profit without express written permission from the author, and provided the name “NWP Rules of Poker” is used or credited. Excerpts of one paragraph or less may be used, posted or quoted without restriction, but if you try and claim you wrote it yourself, we will obviously slap you with a Pinocchio avatar and flame you relentlessly.

NWP RULES OF POKER

SECTION 1 - APPROPRIATE CONDUCT

Poker Rule #1) Shut the fuck up and stop arguing.
When you sit at a game in any poker room, you are accepting the management there as the final authority on all issues relating to that game. You can politely question something, and certainly if the dealer fucks up, call the Floor, but if you want to argue a Floor decision, be prepared to get kicked the fuck OUT. Obv.

Poker Rule #2) Collusion is cheating – don’t be so fucking obvious.
Yes they are watching you. If you and your drunk friend Joe are playing at the same table, and you are clearly colluding, be assured the both of you will be 86’d. Either treat Joe like anyone else at the table, or learn to be slick about it when you soft play him. This includes the prostitute you hired to play a few rounds before she licks your sack after the game is over and you’ve lost the rest of your paycheck.

Poker Rule #3) Verbal abuse – limit yourself.
Yes they are listening. Don’t start flaming the fuck out of the donks every hand – use your wit judiciously. For one thing, it is foolish to point out when someone plays badly, since their idiocy means more money for you later. For another, your rudeness will get you tossed out and earn you a reputation as a foul mouthed fuck-up. Just smile and take it like a man when you get two-outed. This obviously applies to any dealer or card room employee as well.

Poker Rule #4) Profanity.
See above rule. It’s been said that people who curse a lot show their ignorance and shallow vocabulary. (Who the fuck said that anyway?) But actually, there are so many entertaining ways to tell someone to fuck off – why not open a thesaurus now and then, and broaden your horizons? Most card rooms don’t allow the use of four letter words at the tables, and you can’t type in “F*** Y**” when you’re playing live. You are better off learning to control your outbursts completely and remaining silent, but if you must have a temper tantrum, do it eloquently.

Poker Rule #5) Threats.
See rule #3. Obviously on the Internet you’re one bad mother fucker and can get away with calling people out for boxing matches, parking lot brawls, and sex with their mother. In a live poker situation, let’s face it – everyone can see you’re a pussy so STFU.

Poker Rule #6) Be good to the deck.
If you‘re upset over a bad beat or the way your neighbor smells, while you are shutting the fuck up, also remember not to deface, crumple, bend or tear the cards. Refrain from spitting or drooling on them as well. This actually applies to all the property around you, including chairs, carpets, glasses, etc. It’s not yours – don’t fuck it up.

Poker Rule #7) Illegal Substances/Weapons.
No. Smoke out before you leave your house obv, assuming you have one. Only a complete idiot carries drugs and guns into a casino or a card room.

Poker Rule #8) Etiquette During Play
Although it may go against your natural instinct to be a moron, refrain from all of the following during a hand:

  • Acting out of turn
  • Farting or burping loudly during a critical decision.
  • Purposely “splashing” chips into the pot.
  • Calling out (“reading”) a hand for another player at showdown before it’s been dealt faceup on the table. Shut UP. Let him look at it himself and make his decision without your help.
  • Revealing a live hand in a multihanded pot before the betting is complete.
  • Revealing a folded hand face up before the betting is complete.
  • Stalling the action of a game.
  • Deliberately discarding hands away from the muck. Cards should be released in a low line of flight, at a moderate rate of speed (not at the dealer's hands or chip-rack).
  • Stacking chips in a manner that interferes with dealing or viewing cards.
  • Making statements or taking action that could unfairly influence the course of play, whether or not the offender is involved in the pot.
  • Using a cell phone at the table.

Poker Rule #9) More Shit You Can’t Do

  • Management always gets final say in a dispute, not your uneducated ass. True, they may be deadass wrong at times, but you have to abide by it, even if a strict interpretation of the rules clearly indicates a different ruling.
  • The time to call attention to a mistake is right when it occurs, not three beers later, so be sharp and don’t drink, or the delay between the error and the time you figure it out will fuck you. Basically any ruling regarding a pot has to be requested before the next deal starts, or before the game either ends, or switches over to another table. The first riffle of the shuffle counts as the start of a new deal.
  • No one is allowed to play another guy's chips, so keep your filthy hands on your own stack.
  • Keep your freaking rack off the table unless you’re leaving. No, not your saggy tits. The chip rack they gave you when you bought in.
  • You have to keep your cards in full view at all times - do not try and pull them past the edge of the table into your cleavage or cover them with your sweaty hands so as to completely conceal them. Same deal with your chips. Everyone at the table should be able to see what you’ve got, so don’t go trying to hide some behind that gay card protector you insist on using. The only exception is if you are getting up from the table for more than half an hour to go get stoned in the parking lot. If you are doing that, make sure to notify a floor person in advance.
  • Don’t reach over and flip over or peek at cards in the muck.
  • Don’t be one of those assholes who holds up the game while you scratch your ass or slurp your wonton soup.. Pay fucking attention..
  • Speaking a foreign language during a deal is not allowed, so stick to English or your foreign ass will be 86’d.

Poker Rule #10) Stuff the House Can Do that You Can’t Do Shit About

  • In a new game, the player who arrives at the table first gets first choice of remaining seats. If two players want the same seat and arrive at the same time, the higher player on the list has preference. A player playing a pot in another game may have a designated seat locked up until that hand is finished. Management may reserve a certain seat for a player for a good reason, such as to assist reading the board for a person with a vision problem. So basically just quit your bitching and sit the fuck down where you’re told.
  • To protect an existing game, a forced move may be invoked by management when an additional game of the same type and limit is started. The must-move list is maintained in the same order as the original waiting list. If you refuse to move into the game they are telling you to move to, you will be forced to quit, and at that point you won’t be allowed to play at that table or get on that list for it for an hour. Deal with it.

Poker Rule #11) Watch What You Say and Do, or Get Booted From the Hand

  • Your hand is dead if you:
    • fold or announce that you are folding when facing a bet or a raise [NWP Poker Rules]
    • throw your hand away in a forward motion causing another player to act behind you (even if not facing a bet)[NWP Poker Rules]
    • turn your upcards face down in stud, or mix your upcards and downcards together [NWP Poker Rules]
    • exceed the specified time limit when facing a bet or raise [NWP Poker Rules]
    • throw your cards into another player's hand; it doesn’t matter whether they are face up or face down – calm the fuck down and don’t throw cards [NWP Poker Rules]
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