tisdag 16 juni 2009

Super Hold'em strategies

Super Hold'em strategies


There is no other game that can be as thrilling and as profitable as poker is. Super Hold'em poker is a variant of Texas Hold’em kind of poker. Though some people say, it is unique as it is a mixture of Texas Hold'em, Pineapple poker and Omaha. It resembles Pineapple Poker as the players get three hole cards after the deal. In Pineapple poker, the cards are discarded. But out here in Super Hold'em the cards are not discarded. This particular aspect makes it similar to the way Omaha poker is played. Hands are played the same way like Texas Hold'em and Omaha. But there is a significant difference in this. Players are allowed to use only zero, or one or two of the hole cards to make their five card poker hand. The other difference is the fact that the players are not allowed to use all the three of their hole cards. This is deemed to be the only restriction when Super Hold'em poker is concerned. Super Hold'em poker is usually played with a Hi/Lo split.

How to play a basic Super Hold'em poker Hand?

The Super Hold’em hand starts with the dealer placing three hole cards to each of the player. The betting round starts immediately. As soon as it is done, the card is burned from the dock. The flop along with three community cards is dealt. The players then start betting again. Another card is burned. The fourth community card is then dealt. The players bet for another time. Once this betting is done, one more of the card is dealt. The players now have to show the card they have formed using the zero, one and two of their original hole cards. If a Hi/Lo split is played, the low hand has to be qualified. The low hand gets to take home half of the total pot. The other half is won by the best hand. Clearing of cards then takes place and the next hand of Super Hold'em is ready to be played.

Super Hold'em specific Strategies

It is a general tendency to think of Super Hold'em as Omaha poker with a card less. But this is not very true. So the strategies applied to Omaha poker cannot be applied here. There is a general inclination to win big hands at Super Hold'em poker. But the restriction in Omaha poker about the number of cards used, is lifted in Super Hold'em poker. This makes the game much dangerous as players are at a liberty to use only the board or one of their own cards and not hole cards as required in Omaha. Thus, winning big hands in Super Hold'em becomes more and more plausible as the players have an advantage of having one card more than in the usual Texas Hold'em. They are also permitted to use any number of their hole cards, but not all of them.