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 Poker is a card game based on the standard 52 card deck, often using chips as counters for betting. The priority of winning hands is as follows:
Play consists of rounds of cards being dealt, separated by betting, folding, or other actions. Betting can include the lowerest form of checking, which simply means a bet of zero, or high valued betting followed by a call, which means that the opponent(s) will agree to bet the same amount, a raise, which means they agree to meat your bet and increase the bet value at the same time, and finally, folding, or complete capitulation. Keep perspective in mind - a pair of 2's or 5's are not much better than a single ace-high hand. They will win if those are the only two hands out there, but there are a lot of other hands that will beat the low pair.
The strongest hands are those with two separate ways of winning. Looking at
the first two cards in your hand, and seeing a pair, where you could also
get three of a kind, a full house or two pair, or looking and seeing an ace
and another face card, or a card 10 or higher as part of a royal straight,
as as another example, seeing two cards, like a 5 and a 9, close enough to
be part of an inside straight and of the same suit to compete for a flush as
well.
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· royal flush
· straight flush
· four of a kind
· full house
· straight
