Which Poker Games Are Played in Casinos?

Series Summary

Casinos are the place to show off your card skills, so you want to make sure you can strut up to any poker table and act like you know what you're doing. You could attempt to learn on the spot, but you can only learn so much just by watching, and you could run up quite a debt by sitting in on games that you don't know how to play as well as the other players at the table. Plus you don't want to announce to the rest of the gambling world that you are practically giving away your hard-earned money. What you need to do is practice on your own time and with your friends before the stakes get high. When you master the moves in this instructional poker videos, you'll be ready for Vegas.

In this free video series, semi-professional player Reg Brittain gives you a quick overview of how to play four card games you are likely to encounter in casinos: Texas hold'em, Omaha hold'em, stud and razz. He explains in detail betting strategies for all of these games and gives you tips on how to play your hands. Find out the differences in how to play a hold'em hand with a fixed pot limit and one with no limit at all. Learn when to use the high-low strategy and how to decide if you need to fold right away. Not sure what razz is? Watch these videos and you will be a hit at every poker table in the casino!

Video Transcript

"Poker keeps growing. Who know where the current poker boom will end? As popular as Texas Holdem is, there are other games that you'll find in casino's poker room setting that are very cool, a lot of fun to play and I think everyone should learn to play in them. Because, actually if you learn to play a game like Omaha, it makes your Texas Holdem game better. These are games with names like Pot Limit Omaha. Sounds fun, right? Stud, the classic poker game. Stud Eight or Better, a very fun game. We'll show you in a little bit about here. And Razz, what kind of poker game has a name like Razz? Well, it's a lot of fun and I must say what we are going to do is take sort of a general ten thousand foot view if you will, of all the games that you're most likely to find in a casino's poker room. We’ll show you how to deal them and how to bet them and give you a bit of advice during this segment."