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Poker is a card game where players attempt to get the highest hand out of a set of five cards. Some games allow players to bluff, or make false bets, to win the pot.<\/p>\n
When a player raises, other players must call or fold. If a player raises and all other players fold, the player wins the pot.<\/p>\n
In the early days, a five-card poker hand was often dealt one card at a time. Today, the game is usually played in a more elaborate form.<\/p>\n
A hand with the best possible combination of three cards is called a straight flush. In some games, the best possible hand is a king of diamonds and an ace of spades.<\/p>\n
Optimal strategy calls for playing all hands greater than Queen. One could also argue that the highest hand is a straight flush. However, it is not a particularly good poker hand.<\/p>\n
The best poker hand might be a pair of aces and a queen. While that is not a complete set, it is a great hand.<\/p>\n
A hand with four deuces is a wild card. These cards act as the low and high card of the hand. They are a bit more complicated to use than their one-eye counterparts, but are still wild.<\/p>\n
The first round of betting is often called the ante. This is a forced bet by which a player is required to put money into the pot before the cards are dealt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Poker is a card game where players attempt to get the highest hand out of a set of five cards. Some games allow players to bluff, or make false bets, to win the pot. When a player raises, other players must call or fold. If a player raises and all other players fold, the player […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n