The Changing Face of Favoured Poker Games

Posted by Trix @ 12:00 AM, Sunday Aug 9th, 2009

Since the dawn of poker, there have always been games which are enjoyed and played predominantly over others. Over the past decade, what was already a very popular game in Texas Holdem, became the undisputed favourite game across the world.

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The WSOP is evidence of this still being the case, all you have to do is look at a Holdem game compared to a Seven Card Stud poker game of the same buy in amount for example, and see the difference in participant numbers.

Having said that, there has been a recent trend of Omaha increasing in popularity. Partly this is because to amateur Omaha players, almost every hand looks playable. This means that there are plenty of poker players, many who were previously Holdem players, sitting down to Omaha and making mistakes as they try to get to grips with the game.

Serious poker players know that capitalising on these mistakes is always a profitable endeavour.
The fact is that many of the players who used to be weak at Holdem, have now grown skilled at the game over the years, and so pros can no longer find a significant edge to the same extent that they can with Omaha.

The very fact that Omaha can generate much more action is alluring to those who become tired of patient Holdem play, which means that Holdem players will be tempted to experiment with Omaha as it is an exciting game to play. Where there are new players trying to learn a game at cash tables, there will always be those waiting to profit fom their inexperience.

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