Five-Card Draw

Bet, swap up to three cards, bet again. 2–6 players.

Also known as Draw Poker.

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How to play Five-Card Draw

  1. 1Everyone puts in an ante and gets five private cards. There's a round of betting, starting left of the dealer.
  2. 2Then, in turn, each player still in may throw away up to three cards and draw replacements — or four, if the card they keep is an ace. Keeping all five is called standing pat.
  3. 3A second round of betting follows, then a showdown: the best five-card hand wins.
  4. 4On your turn, fold, check, call, bet or raise, or go all in. Bets are no-limit, with the minimum bet shown on screen.
  5. 5Play chips only — never real money. Everyone starts with 1000 chips; run out and you're out of the game.
  6. 6To keep games a sensible length, the stakes rise every 5 hands and the game ends after 50 hands (or as soon as one player has every chip). Most chips wins.
  7. 7If you're all in, you can only win as much from each opponent as you put in; the rest goes to side pots that the others play for.
  8. 8At a showdown everyone still in shows their hand. Equal hands split the pot.
  9. 9Hands rank, high to low: straight flush, four of a kind, full house, flush, straight, three of a kind, two pair, one pair, high card. Aces are high, but A-2-3-4-5 counts as the lowest straight.

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