Guides & Reviews

In a standard deck of playing cards, face cards refer to any jack, queen, or king in the deck. The term derives from the fact that these cards usually depict faces of the jack, queen, and king (aka members of the royal court). Let’s take a look at what face cards are, and discuss a…

Four Card Poker is a poker game that you’ll often find on the floor of a casino. You’ll find Four Card Poker in the gaming pit, along with related games like Three Card Poker, Ultimate Texas Hold’em, and Let It Ride. If you’re familiar with the rules of poker, you’ll quickly grasp the rules of…

Poker home games often play with no limits to the number of different poker variants you might see at the table. While No-Limit Hold’em and Pot-Limit Omaha are the most popular games you’ll see at poker rooms around the world, they’re just a small part of the total number of ways to play poker. If…

  Chinese poker is a card game in the poker family that plays quite differently from traditional game variants that most poker players are familiar with (like Texas Hold’em). Each player gets 13 cards in a game of Chinese poker, and is tasked with making two five-card hands and a three-card hand. A player scores…

Sharkscope functions as one of the longest-running poker databases in the industry. The Sharkscope database includes online poker tournament results that go back nearly 20 years, covering a wide range of poker sites. The database still remains a vital tool for modern-day online poker tournament players. The following review aims to answer a couple of…

The continuation bet (aka c-bet) represents one of the most fundamental concepts in poker. In community card games like Texas Hold’em and Omaha, most flops include the opportunity for a player to make a c-bet. By definition, a c-bet happens when a player raises preflop, then continues with another bet on the flop. A player…

Jumping into the game of poker can present an intimidating task. Sitting in on your first poker game introduces you to a whole new world of poker rules, terms, math, etiquette, and more. Most of the games played in a poker room and on television involve No-Limit Hold’em, which is Texas Hold’em played with no-limit…

Step into any casino and you’ll be surrounded by ample opportunities to play cards. Not all card games a created equal, however. Most of the games you’ll encounter on a casino floor give the house a mathematical edge, making it impossible for the player to turn a profit in the long run. The following list…

Wait… What is Unshuffled? It all started back in March of 2020 – COVID had forced us into quarantine and our weekly poker games all came to a sudden end. We searched the web for an option to play our rather untraditional mixed games online but could not find anything that truly met our needs.…

Players all over the world can play online poker at PokerStars in some form. The PokerStars main client offers poker games around the globe, but players in some areas of the world can’t legally access the platform. The United States sits on the list of countries that can’t legally play on the PokerStars main client.…