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The basics of poker.
Poker is played with one 52 – card deck of cards. There are generally no more
than 10 players playing against each other at a table.
There are a lot of variations
of poker but they all work on a basic principle of hand rankings.
Who ever has the
hand with the highest ranking is the winner.
Or who ever bets enough to get the
other players to fold (discard) their cards is the winner.
Generally poker hands
consist out of five cards, the best five card hand is the winner. These five cards
are not always held in your hand.
Depending on the specific poker game e.g. Texas
Hold’em you might be dealt two cards and there will be five communal cards, I know
this equals a total of seven cards but you will select the five best cards out of
these seven to make the highest hand possible.
What is the best hand possible, you
ask? Well let me give you a break down of the hand rankings.
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The hand rankings – Low to High
High Card
In this case the five cards did not actually make one of the poker hands. So the
person with the highest card would win. E.G
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One Pair – Two cards of the same value E.G
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Two Pair – Two cards of the same value with another two cards of the same
value E.G
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Three of a kind – Three cards of the same value E.G
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Straight – Five cards that are consecutive but not of the same suit.
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Flush – Five cards of the same suit that are not consecutive.
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Full House – Three cards of the same value, together with two cards of the
same value E.G
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Four of a kind – Four cards of the same value E.G
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Straight flush – Five consecutive cards of the same suit E.G
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Royal flush – The highest hand in poker, it is basically a straight flush
from the 10 to the A of a suit. E.G
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