Texas Holdem is virtually one of the most popular casino poker games and is considered a community card game because each player gets two cards and shares five community cards with all players. The person with the combination of five bets cards will win unless a bad hand bluffs its way through to make the good hand fold.

Omaha Holdem is similar to the Texas Hold'em where each player receives four individual cards and shares five community cards. It is popularly played as an eight-or-better high-low split. However it can be played high only where then it will be played with pot limit betting.

Pineapple Holdem - Crazy Pineapple is an in-between of the previous two. Here players are dealt three cards which they must combine with five community cards. The one exception to the Texas and Omaha is that Pineapple requires players to discard one of three cards at some point. Very often, this game is played High Low Split.

Stud - Seven Card Stud is the most popular casino Stud type, whereas Seven Card Stud Eight or Better is the most popular game for tournaments . There are many variations of this game but over the years, Stud has seen a steady decline in popularity in casinos as compared to community card games. Eight or Better, or Stud8, is the most common form of HiLo Stud, but High-Low Declare is played more popularly in home games. In casinos, sometimes "Q" is played: High Low, no qualifier

HORSE (Holdem-Omaha-Razz-Eight or Better Stud), HOE (Holdem-Omaha-Eight or Better) and OE (Omaha8-Stud8) are common combination variations played at high limits and used to keep single game specialists at bay.

Draw Poker - It is the most popular and basic games of all. However it requires immense skill and average to bad players find it hard to compete in it. Due to this factor, it is now seeing a steady decline in casinos. The variants in the game are Jacks or Better where you must have at least a pair of jacks or better before you can open a pot before the draw.

Lowball is the opposite of Draw High where the lowest hand wins. Aces play low, so the best hand possible is a five-high "wheel": 5432A. Deuce to Seven Draw is a Lowball variation where straights and flushes count and aces are high, making 75432 the best possible hand. 2 to 7 is usually played with No Limit betting. Both forms of Lowball are hardly played nowadays. But in places where they are found, they are often played in the Triple Draw format, where instead of the traditional one, three draws and consequently more rounds of betting action occurs.