Poker Games are found in many shapes and sizes. There are a few basic formats and most of the strange sounding variations are derived from these. Poker games can generally be split into three categories:

- Stud Games (for example 7 card stud)

- Draw Games (for example 5 card draw)

- Shared Hand Games (for example Texas Holdem)

There are some other obscure games that don't fit into these categories, some of the more popular of which are high/low pig, bid poker and guts but these are the main ones.

In almost all types of poker game the hand rankings are the same, with a very few minor exceptions which have become more or less