Any of various card games in which, following each of one or more rounds of dealing or revealing the cards, the players in sequence make tactical bets or drop out, the bets forming a pool to be taken either by the sole remaining player or, after all rounds and bets have been completed, by those remaining players who hold a superior hand according to a standard ranking of hand values for the game
Poker isn't just a card game - it's many card games While no definition is going to satisfy everyone, the majority of poker games do share some common features, especially betting in rounds and the ranking of hands Poker is commonly played in cardrooms (often within casinos) and in private home games (illegally in many states) The games played in cardrooms seem to divide into stud games, draw games, and flop games In home games, however, anything goes, including games that seem to have no reason to be called poker The varieties played in home games probably number in the hundreds, or even the thousands Some common cardroom games include Texas Hold'em, Seven Card Stud, Omaha, Razz, Lowball, Pineapple, and Anaconda (Okay, just kidding about the anaconda )
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A poker is a metal bar which you use to move coal or wood in a fire in order to make it burn better. Any of several card games in which a player bets that the value of his or her hand is greater than that of the hands held by others. Each subsequent player must either equal or raise the bet or drop out. The pot is eventually won by either the player showing the best hand when it comes to a showdown or the only player left when everyone else has dropped out, or "folded." In this case the winner need not show his hand and could conceivably have won the pot with a lower hand than any other at the table. It is for this reason that poker is described as a game of bluff. Two principal forms of the game have developed: straight poker, in which all cards of the standard five-card hand are dealt facedown; and stud poker, in which one or two cards are dealt facedown and the rest faceup (five-card) or the last card down (seven-card). In draw poker, cards may be discarded and additional cards drawn. The traditional ranking of hands is (1) straight flush (five cards of the same suit in sequence, the highest sequence ace, king, queen, jack, ten being called a royal flush), (2) four of a kind, (3) full house (three of a kind, plus a pair), (4) flush (five of a single suit), (5) straight (five in sequence), (6) three of a kind, (7) two pair, (8) one pair