The online casinos offer many online poker formats

Ireland has always had a reputation for being a bit of a nation of gamblers, and certainly when it comes to having a flutter on the horses, that may well be true. The online casinos have also been a great success in Ireland, and have brought about a resurgence in interest in many of their casino games, none more so than poker. Online poker has become the casino game of choice for many online casino gamblers, with Texas Hold’em a clear favourite amongst the poker formats offered by the online casinos. In fact when you talk to many online poker players you would think it was the only poker format known to man. At onlinecasino.ie we recognise that there are a wide range of alternative online poker games, and we have therefore included the rules of most of the more widely available poker options in our casino games pages. Community card poker formats such as Texas Hold’em are popular mainly because of the multiple betting rounds which tend to result in bigger pots, but even here there is a popular alternative called Omaha poker which also uses community cards and multiple betting rounds. For those of us who would enjoy playing poker online, but may not have the budget to risk an ever increasing stake on each hand as tends to happen with both Texas Hold’em and Omaha poker, many online casinos offer stud poker as an excellent alternative. Stud poker can be played with five cards or more commonly with seven cards, and is a format which is more suited to poker fans on a limited budget or indeed inexperienced poker players wishing to learn the game. Some online casinos also offer the chance for us to play 5-card draw poker, which for most of us is the format we first heard about through the good old fashioned westerns in the cinema. Whatever your choice there is an online poker format to suit your needs, so take a look at the alternatives.