Community card games: a variant of the traditional game
Any poker game played by using community cards i.e. shared cards or window cards are known as community card games. The cards usually here are dealt face up and it is mandatory for players to share them. There is an incomplete hand or “hole hand” in common terms which are dealt by each player privately. Then these “hole hands” are combined to make complete hands. The set of cards in community games is referred to as board and can be dealt in certain pattern or in a simple line. There are variable rules for each game determining the dealing of private hands. Casinos use blinds while home games describe of antes. Pot limit or no limits are hardly considered in community poker. For informal home games, spread limits are popular while for casinos fixed limit games are more prevalent. As the game furthers, so does the betting amount. For a community card game, the initial hand dealt by a dealer is known as “the flop”, the nest is “the turn” and the last hand dealt is “the river’. Texas hold’em is the most common community game played all across. There are other community card games too played like royal hold’em, double board hold’em and Omaha hold’em.