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Cash tables are a great way to get straight into the action. At the cash tables you can play as little or as much as you want and leave the table any time with your winnings.
There are six Game Types of cash games you can play and various types of limits are described below:

Texas Hold'em
Texas Hold'em is by far the most popular form of poker. Once described by the great grandfather of modern poker, Doyle "Texas Dolly" Brunson, as "The Cadillac of Poker".

Two cards are dealt face down to each of the players at the table. A round of betting is then concluded before the first three ‘community' cards are dealt face up in a sequence also known as the ‘flop'.
Another round of betting is then concluded on the flop, followed by two more rounds of betting on the fourth and fifth cards known as the ‘Turn' and the ‘River' before all hands are revealed.

Omaha
Omaha is very similar to Hold'em with the main difference that you are dealt four cards instead of two.

The same betting and number of community or board cards are dealt but you may only use two from your hand and three from the board.

A lot of first-time players make the mistake of not remembering that simple rule when they play Omaha and it can sometimes be a costly lesson.

As every hand has four cards rather than two, a lot more betting takes place because everyone believes they have a good hand. Omaha is only played at Pot Limit and No Limit. See below for more details on betting limits.

Omaha Hi-Lo
Just like Omaha with the exception that the highest and lowest hands split the pot. The low hand must be five cards (two from your hand and three from the board) and the high hand, eight or less. If you are lucky enough to win both the high and low hand this is known as scooping the pot. A good hand in Omaha Hi-Lo is A, A, 2, 3.

7-Card Stud
Unlike the other more common Game Types of poker such as Texas Hold'em and Omaha, in stud games the lowest card must pay the ante although it's sometimes referred to as the ‘bring-in'.

If there is a tie where more than one player has the same low card, a suit ranking will be used to determine the low card as follows: diamonds (lowest) followed by clubs, hearts, and spades (highest).

The player to the right of the bring-in is the first to act and the action will continue clockwise around the table. Each player is dealt three cards, the first two face-down and the third face-up for all the players to see. Betting rounds continue on the fourth, fifth and sixth card, all face up. During the final round of betting, the seventh card is placed face-down.

5-Card Stud
5-Card Stud is one of the oldest Game Types of poker and often known because of its use in many old Western cowboy films. 5-Card Stud follows the same rules as 7-Card with the only difference being that the first card is dealt face-down. Because there is only one hand that is face-down, the majority of the hands don't reach the showdown status.

Razz
Razz is another form of stud poker where the lowest hand wins and straights and flushes do not count against the player's hand. The betting and hand lay-out is the same as 7-Card Stud poker (the first, second and seventh cards are dealt face-down).

The best possible hand in Razz would be 5, 4, 3, 2, A.

There are two different types of tournament available at Gala Casino Poker.
There are single table tournaments sometimes referred to as ‘Sit N Gos' and Multi-Table Tournaments referred to as MTTs.

Single table tournaments start when enough players have paid and taken a seat. The seat numbers can range from heads up, 6s, 10s and sometimes higher amount. All pay-out amounts are clearly visible in the poker lobby before you register.
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Multi-Table Tournaments are different in that they have a definite start time and can often carry larger pay-outs due to the number of entries.

Some of the Multi-Table Tournaments carry some exceptions which you won't find in the single table tournaments. These differences can be the ability to re-buy once you have lost all your chips or the option to purchase an add-on at the end of the re-buy stage.
A re-buy means you can buy more chips if you are low or even knocked out whereas an add-on is buying more chips after the re-buy stage.

The add-on is normally the same amount of chips as your original starting stack and you can check all the details before you register for a tournament in the registration lobby section. 

Some tournaments have a guaranteed set amount, meaning if enough players don't register the prize pool will still stay the same amount. 

Fixed Limit Poker
Fixed Limit games are games where a fixed betting structure is applied. For example, in a $3-$6 game, the bets and raises pre-flop and on the flop are $3 each, and the bets and raises on the River are $6 each.

No Limit Poker
No Limit really burst on to the scene with the launch of internet poker around 2002-03. It's by far the most chosen choice of game allowing a player to bet as little as possible or their entire stack if they choose to do so. Betting your entire stack is often referred to as going "All-in".

Pot Limit
Pot Limit is often played in the game of Omaha where the player to act can bet up to the amount of the pot in the middle and including any previous bets. For example, if there is $100 in the pot and the previous player to act had bet $50, the maximum you would be able to raise by would be $150.