There are differences than just the standard variations of these games. In High Chicago the player with the highest spade as a hole card wins half the pot. The opposite of High Chicago is Low Chicago and the player with the lowest spade wins half the pot. If one player has both the highest and the lowest spade that player then wins the entire pot. A simple variation to seven card stud is a game called Follow the Queen. In this game if a queen is dealt face up after any other card, the card that came before the queen is a wild card. However if no queen is dealt the game proceeds like a regular game of seven card stud.

If you are not an experienced gambler you may not know the game Billabong. This game is a muddled up version of Manila. That is, the game begins with every player being dealt two down cards and one up card. The lowest up card starts the betting round if there is a bring in otherwise the highest up card starts. Then two community cards are dealt and another round of betting ensues beginning with the player that has the best poker hand showing. A third and a fourth cards are dealt each with their own betting round to follow. After the fourth round the players will battle it out in a showdown. The best five card hand wins the pot. A slight change to Billabong is Shanghai. In Shanghai the game is played exactly the same except an extra hole card is dealt. However, the player can only use two hole cards to make the five card hand not all three. Just to make sure players are not bouncing back and forth between their three hoe cards one must be discarded at some point in the game. The most common place to discard is immediately or the second most popular place is right before showdown.

The last game on the list is not necessarily a poker variant, rather it is a stripped down version of poker. Guts is a multitude of games played over and over increasing the pot at a rapid pace. Essentially, players receive three or fewer cards, ranked similarly to hands in poker. Each round is the only round in these series of one round games. In each round each player will decide to be either in or out. Then a showdown occurs. The losers of each round must match or double the pot depending on how the rules are agreed upon before dealing. This allows the pot to grow rapidly and give you a few chances to win if you lost in an earlier round. The winner receives the entire pot.

For quick look at some common rule variations in poker, look at the list below.

KILL GAME is when a player wins two pots in a row of a fixed limit game, the stakes are doubled. Also in some split pot games a player winning both halves of the pot can cause a kill.
WILD CARD can simply be called out to a specific card or done by luck of the draw.
TWIST ROUND, or otherwise known as a Tittle, is when players may buy another card from the deck. If the card is unsatisfactory the player may buy another adding his money to the pot.
HIGH/LOW SPLIT is when the pot is split in half and highest and the lowest hand wins.
STRIPPED DECK is when players play poker with only twenty cards as it was first played long ago.