Hard-Boiled Poker · Jun 9, 2016
The Draw and Stud Kingdoms in the Poker Domain
I’ve been thinking about draw poker and stud poker lately, and how in a sense, all poker variants can be categorized as having been derived from one or the other category of games. That is to say, if we created a taxonomy of card games with poker being the “domain” up at the top, draw and stud would be the top two “kingdoms” just underneath, with all the other games belonging to one or the other.
In modern poker parlance, it’s common to see three categories of games identified -- flop games, draw games, and stud games. That’s a helpful system, say, if you’re choosing variants for a mixed game and want to ensure you’ve got a balance between different types of games.