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A growing library of dealer's-choice poker variants. Learn the rules for any game, and practice against AI opponents wherever a "Play now" button is available.
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Ambigu
A French vying game first recorded in 1659 under Louis XIV, blending elements of Whist, Bouillotte, and Piquet, with hand categories that closely parallel modern poker rankings.
Learn the rules →Bouillotte
A high-stakes French vying game that emerged during the Revolutionary era, played with a stripped 20-card deck and believed to have shaped the early French form of Poque.
Learn the rules →Brelan
A French vying game from the 15th–19th centuries, played with three cards and a card turned from the deck — a key link in the chain leading to Bouillotte and Poque.
Learn the rules →Commerce
An 18th-century French vying game where players trade cards with a shared table pool to build the best three-card combination — a likely ancestor of Whisky Poker.
Learn the rules →Courchevel
A French Omaha variant, named for the ski resort, where the first flop card is exposed before any preflop betting even happens.
Learn the rules →Faro
A once-massively popular banking card game (also called Pharaoh) that dominated American and European gambling halls for over two centuries, simplifying Basset's mechanic into a fast, simple bet-on-a-card game.
Learn the rules →Glic
One of the oldest recorded European vying games, dating to at least 1454 — its French name is considered the most direct linguistic root of 'Poque,' and by extension 'poker.'
Learn the rules →Poque
The 17th-18th century French bluffing and betting game most often credited as the direct namesake and ancestor of the English word 'poker.'
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