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is provided as an overview of and topical guide to poker:

Poker Poker is a family of comparing card games in which players wager over which hand is best according to that specific game's rules. It is played worldwide, however in some places the rules may vary. While the earliest known form of the game w ...

– family of card games that share

betting Gambling (also known as betting or gaming) is the wagering of something of value ("the stakes") on a random event with the intent of winning something else of value, where instances of strategy are discounted. Gambling thus requires three eleme ...

rules and usually (but not always) hand rankings. Poker games differ in how the cards are dealt, how hands may be formed, whether the high or low hand wins the pot in a showdown (in some games, the pot is split between the high and low hands), limits on bet sizes, and how many rounds of betting are allowed.

Nature of poker

Poker can be described as all of the following: *

Game A game is a structured form of play (activity), play, usually undertaken for enjoyment, entertainment or fun, and sometimes used as an educational tool. Many games are also considered to be work (such as professional players of spectator s ...

– structured playing, usually undertaken for enjoyment and sometimes used as an educational tool. Games are distinct from work, which is usually carried out for remuneration, and from art, which is more often an expression of aesthetic or ideological elements. However, the distinction is not clear-cut, and many games are also considered to be work (such as professional players of spectator sports/games) or art (such as jigsaw puzzles or games involving an artistic layout such as Mahjong, solitaire, or some video games). ** Card game *

Sport Sport pertains to any form of Competition, competitive physical activity or game that aims to use, maintain, or improve physical ability and Skill, skills while providing enjoyment to participants and, in some cases, entertainment to specta ...

– an organized, competitive, entertaining, and skillful activity requiring commitment, strategy, and fair play, in which a winner can be defined by objective means. It is governed by a set of rules or customs. ** Mind sport – a game where the outcome is determined

Equipment of the game

Playing card A playing card is a piece of specially prepared card stock, heavy paper, thin cardboard, plastic-coated paper, cotton-paper blend, or thin plastic that is marked with distinguishing motifs. Often the front (face) and back of each card has a fi ...

s * Poker chips

Rules of the game

* Betting in poker *

Public cardroom rules In public relations and communication science, publics are groups of individual people, and the public (a.k.a. the general public) is the totality of such groupings. This is a different concept to the sociological concept of the ''Öffentlichkei ...

Cheating in poker Cheating in poker is any behavior outside the rules of poker that is intended to give an unfair advantage to one or more players. Minimal-skill methods The easiest and most common types of cheating require no skill of manipulation, but rather me ...

Poker hands

List of poker hands In poker, players form sets of five playing cards, called ''hands'', according to the rules of the game. Each hand has a rank, which is compared against the ranks of other hands participating in the showdown to decide who wins the pot. In high ...

* Rank of hands * Standard poker hands ** Straight flush **

Four of a kind Four of a kind may refer to: * Four of a kind (poker), a type of poker hand * Four of a Kind (card game), a patience or solitaire * ''Four of a Kind'' (TV series), an American reality series about quadruplets * ''Four of a Kind'' (film), an Austral ...

** Full house ** Flush ** Straight ** Three of a kind ** Two pair ** One pair ** High card * Non-standard poker hands

Poker variations

List of poker variants The card game of poker has many variations, most of which were created in the United States in the mid-1800s through the early 1900s. The standard order of play applies to most of these games, but to fully specify a poker game requires details ...

Draw poker Draw poker is any poker variant in which each player is dealt a complete hand before the first betting round, and then develops the hand for later rounds by replacing, or "drawing", cards. The descriptions below assume the reader is familiar wi ...

(including five-card draw) *

Stud poker Stud poker is any of a number of poker variants in which each player receives a mix of face-down and face-up cards dealt in multiple betting rounds. Stud games are also typically '' non-positional'' games, meaning that the player who bets first ...

(including five-card stud and

seven-card stud Seven-card stud, also known as Seven-Toed Pete or Down-The-River is a variant of stud poker. Before the 2000s surge of popularity of Texas hold 'em, seven-card stud was the most widely played poker variant in home games across the United States, a ...

) * Community card poker (including

Texas hold 'em Texas hold 'em (also known as Texas holdem, hold 'em, and holdem) is one of the most popular variants of the card game of poker. Two cards, known as hole cards, are dealt face down to each player, and then five Community card poker, communit ...

and

Omaha hold 'em Omaha hold 'em (also known as Omaha holdem or simply Omaha) is a community card poker game similar to Texas hold 'em, where each player is dealt four cards and must make their best hand using exactly two of them, plus exactly three of the five ...

) *

Casino game Games available in most casinos are commonly called casino games. In a casino game, the players gamble cash or casino chips on various possible random outcomes or combinations of outcomes. Casino games are also available in online casinos, wher ...

s with poker-like rules (including Caribbean stud and Pai Gow poker) * Three card poker (including three card brag) * Four card poker *

Chinese poker Chinese poker is a card game based on poker hand rankings. It is intended as a beginner-friendly game, with only a basic knowledge of poker hand rankings needed to get started. The format allows for frequent unexpected outcomes due to the large ...

* Non-standard poker hands

Game play

Poker tools Poker tools are a variety of software or web-based applications that allow the statistical analysis of poker players, games or tournaments. Hand converters Poker hand converters allow players to take text-based online poker hand history files f ...

Poker strategy

Poker strategy *

Fundamental theorem of poker The fundamental theorem of poker is a principle first articulated by David Sklansky that he believes expresses the essential nature of poker as a game of decision-making in the face of incomplete information. The fundamental theorem is stated ...

Morton's theorem Morton's theorem is a poker principle articulated by Andy Morton in a Usenet poker newsgroup. It states that in multi-way pots, a player's expectation may be maximized by an opponent making a correct decision. The most common application of Mort ...

* Pot odds * Other gameplay and strategy

Poker plays

* Aggressive plays – * Bluff – *

Check-raise A check-raise in poker is a common deceptive play in which a player checks early in a betting round, hoping someone else will open. The player who checked then raises in the same round. This might be done, for example, when the first player belie ...

– * Draw – * Isolation – * Position plays – * Protection plays – * Slow plays – * Steal –

Poker probability

Poker probability In poker, the probability of each type of 5-card hand can be computed by calculating the proportion of hands of that type among all possible hands. History Probability and gambling have been ideas since long before the invention of poker. The ...

Poker probability (Texas hold 'em) In poker, the probability of each type of 5-card hand can be computed by calculating the proportion of hands of that type among all possible hands. History Probability and gambling have been ideas since long before the invention of poker. The de ...

Poker probability (Omaha) In poker, the probability of each type of 5-card hand can be computed by calculating the proportion of hands of that type among all possible hands. History Probability and gambling have been ideas since long before the invention of poker. The de ...

* Poker probability (Seven-Card Stud)

Poker psychology

Poker psychology * Tells

Poker venues

* Online poker – *

Casino A casino is a facility for certain types of gambling. Casinos are often built near or combined with hotels, resorts, restaurants, retail shopping, cruise ships, and other tourist attractions. Some casinos are also known for hosting live entertai ...

– *

Card room A cardroom or card room is a gaming establishment that exclusively offers card games for play by the public. The term poker room is used to describe a dedicated room in casinos that is dedicated to playing poker and in function is similar to a car ...

–

Organized poker

Tournaments A tournament is a competition involving at least three competitors, all participating in a sport or game. More specifically, the term may be used in either of two overlapping senses: # One or more competitions held at a single venue and concentr ...

World Series of Poker The World Series of Poker (WSOP) is a series of poker tournaments held annually in Paradise, Nevada and, since 2004, sponsored by Caesars Entertainment. It dates its origins to 1970, when Benny Binion invited seven of the best-known poker pla ...

World Poker Tour The World Poker Tour (WPT) is an internationally televised gaming and entertainment brand. Since 2002, the World Poker Tour has operated a series of international poker tournaments and associated television series broadcasting playdown and the fi ...

** Other notable tournaments

History of poker

History of poker * Poker boom

General poker concepts

Glossary of poker terms The following is a glossary of poker terms used in the card game of poker. It supplements the glossary of card game terms. Besides the terms listed here, there are thousands of common and uncommon poker slang terms. This is not intended to be ...

* List of playing-card nicknames *

Casino token Casino tokens (also known as casino or gaming chips, checks, cheques or poker chips) are small discs used in terms of currency in casinos. Colored metal, injection-molded plastic or compression molded clay tokens of various denominations are us ...

* Poker jargon

Poker personalities

* Notable poker players

Related games

* Poker-related games include: ** Non-poker vying games commonly played along with poker such as: *** Seven twenty-seven ***

Bourré Bourré (also commonly known as Bouré and Boo-Ray) is a trick-taking gambling card game primarily played in the Acadiana region of Louisiana in the United States of America. It is also played in the Greek island of Psara, with the name Boureki ( ...

** Unrelated games that use poker hands in various ways, such as: *** Liar's poker

References

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