Players will then get five cards each all face down while the dealer who also gets five cards, has four cards face down and one card face up. Players will then examine their cards but giving out information about their cards at any time is strictly not allowed in online Caribbean stud poker.

After looking at their cards they must then decide if they want to continue playing and therefore raise or just fold. Folding makes the player forfeit everything, their cards, ante bet and side bets made if any. This is all the player has to decide when playing online Caribbean stud poker, no other complicated strategies.

If however, you feel like you have a good hand then you raise but it is twice the amount of the ante. The dealer then will turn all is other four cards face up letting you see all of his cards. After this, the dealer needs to have an ace and king to qualify based on the Caribbean Stud rules where in the lowest qualifying hand would be a 2, 3, 4, ace and king.

If the dealer does not qualify, the player (that will be you) will win the ante bet and the raise is pushed. This means that it’s a draw and the bet goes back to the player’s bankroll.

If however the dealer does qualify and at the same time beats the player, both the ante and the raise of the players loses to the dealer.

And if the dealer qualifies but is unable to beat the player’s hand then he will pay the player with an even ante and the raised is paid based on the raise pay table.

If a tie is seen after the dealer has shown his hand then both dealer and player will push. Great rules, great game right? More to come on online Caribbean stud poker and pina coladas.

Royal flush is the highest poker hand and is made up of an ace, king, queen, jack and ten in the same suit. All suits are considered equal so all royal flushes are equal and this is an unbeatable hand.

Straight flush consists of five cards of the same suit in sequence like J-10-9-8-7 in spades, with the hand containing the highest top card having the highest hand. An ace can be considered as a low card when its placed as 5-4-3-2-A all in hearts, with the 5 of hearts as the highest card.

Next high hand is the four of a kind. This hand consist of four cards of the same rank like four kings or four twos and the fifth can be any card called the kicker. When a tie occurs then the highest four set wins and based on the example above, the four of kings will beat the four of two but when (and this rarely happens) two hands have the same four of a kind, then the one with the highst kicker is higher.

Full house is made up of three cards of the same rank and then two cards of another same rank or a pair. For example, K-K-K-8-8, when there are two full house or more, the one with the highest three cards wins.

Flush is having five cards with the same suit and in a game where there are two flushes the highest card concludes which is higher such as, Q-10-9-6-4 of spades beats J-10-9-6-4 of hearts.

A straight hand is five cards of different suits but in sequence like Q of hearts- J of spades- 10 of diamonds- 9 of hearts and 8 of diamonds and the highest card in this case the queen will determine the higher card between two straights.

Three of a kind is a five card hand that is made up of three cards in the same rank plus any two cards. The one with the highest three card is considered higher if there is a tie.

Two pairs is two cards with the same rank, another two cards with the same rank different from the first one and a side card such as 10-10-5-5-K, if a tie occurs the one with the highest pair wins like in the example the highest pair is two 10s and when faced with 9-9-8-8-Q hand then the first hand wins.

A Pair consist of five cards with two cards of same rank and three unrelated cards and when compared with the same hand, the one with the highest two pair wins.

High card is a combination of any cards that don't match with any of the hands above and the hand with the highest card is the higher hand.

So is Facebook poker the same as any other poker game? Of course it is, but you still need to keep in mind a few factors to accumulate all those Facebook poker chips and one thing to always remember is to take the full benefits of your big hands. This means that you take risks for those hands that will offer big gains and keep from wasting poker your poker chips from hands that don’t offer much gain.

It is sometimes easy to chase after hands that have slim chances of winning and pots that are not that rewarding. It is always good to trust your instincts because some just completely ignore killer hands and let it go to waste because they didn’t go with what their instinct told them to do.

Patience is a virtue you need to have when playing Texas Hold’em on Facebook. It’s often easy to get carried away with your emotions and throw it all in just because you hold a good hand, not waiting to see and observe if other players also hold good or better hand than yours, when it’s time for a showdown they win because they were more casual and patiently observed each play.

So go on and have a blast Facebooking and playing Texas Hold’em at the same time.

Collusion is something that is unique problem to online poker players. Unlike other casino games where the player plays against the dealer, poker players compete against each others. Collusion happens when two poker players or more playing at the same table, team up and use tools to gang up on an unsuspecting player, these could be thru instant messages or telephone conferences, thus making collusion a great risk to online players.

There has also been questions in the form of software cheats or some other way to view other player’s cards. Data like what card you are holding is being tightly monitored by the software companies and this type of information is being sent out only to other players during the showdown so it will be difficult for other players to actually find ways to glance at someone else’s card.

There is also what is called active cheating that is also being done on land based casinos.Some players work as a team and they try to raise the pot as high as they can for one another generally just giving each other the best advantage but these type of cheating can be detected and some casinos even programmed their software to interpret if players are involved in this form of cheating.

So although there are some ways that unscrupulous people find to cheat at poker it is not totally remarkable and software companies are always finding means of tightening their security and looking out after these type of people. But if you are having a bad day at a poker table don’t push your luck and it might be better to leave and play another day.

Do not be impatient and wait for your turn when clicking. You don’t want to click ahead because there are sites that record your actions when playing and other players will know that you folded. This can’t be good when you want to bluff since other players have already a read on your techniques and you cannot bluff effectively.

When you play even just for fun or fake money, it’s better if you play like you’re in a real game with your real money at stake especially if you do have plans of doing that at a later date. This will motivate you more to be good at your game and avoid any bad habits to develop which could be detrimental when you start playing for real.y

Get to know the site you’ll be playing on. Each site or casino has something different to offer and it is to your advantage if you get to know their rules and regulations, how they operate and the security measures they provide. Simply knowing how to play poker is not enough, you could end up losing precious cash when you don’t have a clear grasp of the casino site’s operation.

Make a budget and follow it. It’s easy to get carried away while playing and if you are having an unlucky day, don’t chase your loses, quit when you have reach your limit and try again for another day.

Other tips you’ll find online or otherwise can be use for both online and live poker games, what is important i that you concentrate on your game but enjoy it at the same time.

Do not get distracted. Poker may be a skill game but it still demands concentration and an attention to detail especially when you are playing online. There are some online players who try to play two or more game at a time and this is not advisable especially for beginners. You must be able to fully concentrate on the game and distractions at home like television, telephones etc. can ruin this concentration and make you commit costly errors you cannot afford.

Another error you can easily make if you are not careful is bluffing too much or even too little. Other players will be able to read you quite well if you hardly ever bluff, they will certainly know if you are holding a winning or a losing hand. Bluffing too much may also harm your game so try to find a balance in between and this strategy you can later improve as you go along with your game.

Budget! Budget! This is a very important part of your game. Making a budget before jumping to the fray will help you last for a long time in the world of poker. Playing too much or over the budget will definitely make you lose money that you cannot afford to lose in the first place. Playing within your budget ensures that you can and will be back tomorrow for another challenge.

These are just some of the errors you have to know and avoid committing, remember that a presence of mind is important, avoid making these costly mistakes and you'll be on your way for a successful poker career.

Since in a 7 card stud game, each players are dealt with seven unique cards, it is not easy to judge the relative strength of your starting hand. One player might get the card the you needed to win, or others might be dealt with more superior card so a good decision would be to save your money and just fold.

You might have similar starting hand with another player but one can be totally unplayable while the other one could be a powerful hand like if you were dealt with three suited cards and as you scan the table, see another player with five cards of the same suits this means it decreases your chances of making a flush. So before you call, raise or bet, you must first look around the table at the other players' up cards.

The best powerful starting hand you could have is three aces but any three of a kind for a starting hand is great way to start 7 card stud. Another thing to remember in stud are the cards that were folded by other players because you certainly don't want to chase after a card that is no longer available.

7 card stud takes a lot of practice and concentration before you can fully enjoy the game but in the end it may be all worth it when you rake in those winnings.

The Seven card stud is not that difficult to learn and as with any game, you have to know the basic rules first. One essential thing to know when playing seven card stud is that you have seven cards to choose from to form your final five card hand and you need not use any specific card out of the seven, just use any card that will give you the highest five hand.

The game starts with each player putting in an ante and after that the dealer gives, starting to his left, each players two cards face down, also called hole cards, and deals one card face up.

Players then look at their hole cards and the player that has the lowest card showing face up must place in a small bet known as bring in. A round of betting follows starting from the left of the player that made the ‘bring in’ bet. Players may call, raise or fold.

The fourth street or turn is then dealt face up to each player and each player again make their bet but this time betting starts with the player that has the highest card face up and this rule continues up to the last round of betting.

After the round of betting, the fifth card this time called the fifth street or river is dealt and once again still face up and then continues with another round of betting starting with the player who has the highest river. Then the sixth card is dealt face up and then more betting.

The seven and final card is dealt to the players face down followed by a final round of betting. Showdown then occurs with each player showing their best five card hand and the player with the highest card wins of course.

The best high hand in Omaha Hi/Lo is similar to that of a regular Omaha game with no qualifications required to form a winning high hand so a winning high hand is always possible.

The winning low hand on the other hand has certain qualifications for it to win the pot. For your hand to qualify as an Omaha low hand, your card cannot have anything higher than an 8 and all must be unpaired cards. Aces is considered to be a high as well as low card and so the best winning low hand is A-2-3-4 and 5. Straights and flushes are not considered in low hand and you can just ignore them when forming a low hand but your low hand can also be the highest winning hand if its a straight or flush and this is the beauty of Omaha Hi/Lo, you can and may win both hands and take all the pot.

The rest of the game though is the same with regular Omaha with each player dealt with four hole cards and five community cards with the winning hands having two hole cards and three from that of the community cards.

When starting a game of Omaha, players post a big blind and a small blind and after the blind bets are posted,comes one of the main difference between Omaha and Texas Hold’em, where the dealer gives four cards face down in Omaha compared to the two hole cards in Texas Hold’em.

Next comes a round of betting which is started by the player to the left of the two players who posted the blinds and they can either call, raise or fold.

The dealer then discards the top of the deck called burning the card (just like in Texas Hold’em) and deals three cards face up on the table, called the flop. The next round of betting occurs with the players either calling, raising or folding.

After burning another card, the dealer flips another card face up which becomes the fourth community card called the Turn or Fourth street and another round of betting is done.

Finally, the dealer burns one last card and places the final and fifth card still face up, this one called the River or Fifth Street. Now, here’s another main difference between the two poker variants, in Omaha you can form the best and winning hand by exactly combining two of your hole cards, not one or three but two, with three of the community cards unlike that of Texas Hold’em where you can use none to two of your hole cards and combine with the community cards to form the best possible winning poker hand.

The last round of betting ensues and the remaining players after betting goes on a showdown where in they show their winning hands with the player on the dealer’s left going first and the player with the best combination of five cards wins.