Five-card draw

Play begins with each player being dealt five cards, one at a time, all face down.

This rule is useful for low-stakes social games where many players will stay for the draw, and will help avoid depletion of the deck.

However, a rule used by many casinos is that a player is not allowed to draw five consecutive cards from the deck.

Another common house rule is that the bottom card of the deck is never given as a replacement, to avoid the possibility of someone who might have seen it during the deal using that information.

Bob checks, David checks, Alice bets $10, Bob folds, David raises $16, and Alice calls, ending the second betting round and going directly into a showdown.

When four or fewer players play, a normal 32-card deck without jokers, with ranks ranging from ace to seven, is used.

This affects the probabilities of making specific hands, so a flush ranks above a full house and below four of a kind.

Many smaller online poker rooms, such as Boss Media, spread the variant, although it is unheard of in brick-and-mortar casinos.