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Poker Description
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Poker is a popular card game in which players with fully or partially concealed cards make wagers into a central pot. The pot is awarded to the player or players with the best combination of cards or to the player who makes an uncalled bet. Poker can also refer to video poker, a single-player game seen in casinos much like a slot machine, or to other games that use poker hand rankings.
A vying game is one where, instead of playing their cards out, the players bet as to who holds the best card combination by progressively raising the stakes until either -
- There is a showdown, when the best hand wins all the stakes (‘the pot’), or
- All but one player have given up betting and dropped out of play, when the last person to raise.
Wins the pot without a showdown.
It is therefore possible for the pot to be won by a hand that is not in fact the best, everyone else having been bluffed out of play. One of Poker`s earliest names was, in fact, ‘Bluff’. Bluffing is as essential to vying as finessing is to trick-play.
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