Poker: Beyond Hold'em

Omaha, Stud, Razz, Draw, Badugi, and the mixed games the pros respect

Texas Hold'em is only one branch of a much larger family. This epoch takes a player who knows Hold'em and opens the rest of the poker world: the three structural families (draw, stud, and community-card games) and the high, lowball, and hi-lo split formats; Pot-Limit Omaha and the four-card 'game of the nuts'; Omaha Hi-Lo and the eight-or-better low; Seven-Card Stud and the memory game that ruled poker before Hold'em; Razz and the A-to-5 wheel; Five-Card Draw and 2-7 Triple Draw; Badugi and its four-suit lowball; the rotating mixed games like HORSE and the 8-Game that decide the WSOP $50,000 Players Championship; and how to choose, learn, and master a variant of your own. All-around skill, not one memorized game.