So the best low hand is 5-4-3-2-A, suited or not. In a variant, based on Lowball, where only the low hand wins, a straight or a flush does not matter for a low hand. In most high-low games the usual rank of poker hands is observed, so that an unsuited broken straight (7-5-4-3-2) wins low (see Morehead, Official Rules of Card Games). For example, the low hand must have 5 cards with ranks of 8 or less. Generally there is a qualifier for the low hand. High-low split: the highest and lowest hands split the pot.The most common variants are Razz and 2-7 Triple Draw There are different rules about whether or not aces count as low, and the effects of straights and flushes. Lowball: The lowest hand wins the pot.This can range from adding jokers as wild card, to making certain low cards such as deuces wild to the 7-card stud variant named baseball. The most common of these are Texas hold 'em and Omaha hold 'em. Community card poker: Games in which each player's incomplete hidden hand is combined with shared face-up cards.These two variants are further played in other different formats. The most common of these are five-card stud and seven-card stud. Stud poker: Games in which each player receives a combination of face-up cards and face-down cards in multiple betting rounds.The most common of these is five-card draw. Draw poker: Games in which players are dealt a complete hand, hidden, and then improve it by replacing cards.

The most popular poker variants can be divided into three broad groups:

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