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Poker is a card game played by two or more players. It is a game of skill and chance in which the highest hand wins the pot. The game has many variants, but the most common ones involve betting and showing cards at the end of each round. The game is played on a table and requires at least one player to make an initial forced bet, known as the blind or ante. The shuffled pack is then passed around the table in rotation, each player having the option to cut. If a player declines to cut, any other player may cut.<\/p>\n
Bets are placed into a central pot by players in turn, based on the rank they believe their hands are worth to the others. A player may match a previous bet, raise it, or fold.<\/p>\n
There are a number of different types of poker hands, including pairs, threes, fours, straights and flushes. Each type is ranked differently. For example, a pair is made up of two matching cards of the same rank, while a full house has 3 cards of one rank and 2 matching cards of another. Straights skip in rank but remain from the same suit, and a flush has five consecutive cards of one rank.<\/p>\n
The game of poker has long been a favorite in American card rooms, from glitzy casinos to seedy dives and on riverboats that once plied the Mississippi. A version of the game is played in almost every country in the world, and it is a very popular spectator sport. The popularity of the game has grown so much that the World Series of Poker was developed to declare a champion. The game also has an extensive internet presence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"