About Poker

There is more than one type of poker, and in fact, there are many different types of poker. Two popular forms of poker are draw poker and stud poker. In draw poker you can draw new cards from the deck after the initial cards are dealt, your cards are usually dealt face down and you bet after receiving your initial cards and after you draw new cards.

In stud poker games, you play with your initially dealt cards, some cards are face down and some are face up, and you bet after each new face up card is dealt and after the last face down card is dealt.

Both of these games involve either five cards or seven, and can be played in one of two ways, high or high/low, the pot is split between the person with the highest hand and the person with the lowest hand.

There are 52 cards the pack and the ranking of the individual cards, from high to low, is ace, king, queen, jack, 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2.

There is no ranking between suits so for example, the jack of hearts and jack of spades are equal in value. A poker hand is made from the best arrangement of five cards and are ranked as follows from the highest to lowest.

• Royal flush – A-K-Q-J-10 all the same suit
• Straight flush – Any 5 consecutive cards, all same suit
• 4-of-a –Kind – Four cards of the same value
• Full house – Three of a kind and a pair
• Flush- any five cards of the same suit
• Straight – Any five consecutive cards
• Three –of – kind- Three cards, same value
• Two pair – Any two pair
• One Pair- Any pair
• High Card- No pair five dissimilar cards, mixed suit

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