LegionBet Poker

Texas Hold'em

Texas Hold'em is the game most players open first at LegionBet, with soft micro-stakes tables running from £0.01/£0.02 blinds through to £5/£10. You get two hole cards and five community cards, and the best five-card hand wins the pot.

I sat down at a £0.05/£0.10 table on a Tuesday evening and had a full six-seat ring game within ninety seconds. Rake caps at £3 per pot below £100, which keeps small-stakes grinding worth the effort rather than something the house eats into.

Omaha

Omaha deals four hole cards instead of two, and you must combine two of them with three community cards to build your hand. LegionBet runs both Pot Limit Omaha and Omaha Hi-Lo, the split-pot version where the lowest qualifying hand takes half the pot.

You read hands differently with four hole cards than two: big pairs lose value fast, and drawing hands with connected cards gain it. The PLO tables at LegionBet fill out after 9pm, once the Hold'em regulars start hunting for softer games.

Seven Card Stud

No community cards here. Each player gets seven cards across several betting rounds, three face-down and four face-up, and builds the best five-card hand at showdown. LegionBet spreads Seven Card Stud at lower stakes than Hold'em: £0.10/£0.20 fixed limit through to £2/£4.

You need patience and memory here more than anywhere else in the lobby. Tracking which up-cards folded matters, and it's the slowest format on the site, so budget more time per session than a Hold'em ring game.

Razz

In Razz, the lowest hand wins, and aces count low. Straights and flushes don't count against you, so a hand like A-2-3-4-6 beats a pair every time.

Razz tables are thinner than Stud's, and LegionBet spreads the game at only a couple of stake levels. It's worth trying once for the discipline it demands: you fold hands that would be monsters anywhere else.

Five Card Draw

Five Card Draw is the format most players recognise from home games: five cards dealt, one round of discarding and drawing, then showdown. LegionBet keeps this variant at low-stakes tables only.

Five Card Draw skips community cards and multiple betting streets, so it's the fastest game to learn on the platform. You'll hit the skill ceiling faster than in Hold'em or Omaha because there's less to read.

Short Deck (6+) Hold'em

Short Deck strips every card below 6 from the deck, which makes flushes easier to make than full houses, so a flush ranks below a full house here, the opposite of full-deck Hold'em. LegionBet's Short Deck tables run Pot Limit only.

It's the newest format on the site and the smallest player pool, but the tables I joined ran bigger average pots relative to the blinds, since the reduced deck sends more hands to showdown.

Choose Stakes That Match Your Bankroll

LegionBet spreads Hold'em stakes from £0.01/£0.02 up to £25/£50, so there's no reason to sit above a level your bankroll supports. I run 30 to 40 buy-ins per stake before moving up, and dropping down after a losing session costs nothing but pride.

Skip the Tracking Software, Use the Beginner Tables

LegionBet doesn't permit third-party HUDs at the tables, so you're working with the same information as everyone else at a beginner table. If you're still learning hand ranges, those tables (marked with a small icon in the lobby) cap the field at six seats and slow the betting down.

Set Deposit and Session Limits Before You Sit Down

Poker sessions run long by design, and you lose track of time fast across two or three tables at once. LegionBet's account settings let you cap deposits and set session reminders before you launch the client. Set these first, not after a bad beat has you reaching for another top-up.