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Where to play poker? Poker Plex www.pokerplex.com it's your game!
No one can deny the unquestionable popularity of poker. This popular card game, from its humble beginnings, has gone on to capture the hearts and minds of million of players worldwide, and has led to an explosion of both land based and online poker rooms, each one vying for the attention of poker players.
It seems that it is no new invention, as card games existed for thousands of years, but it can be noted that the Persians favored a card game, called as nas, the French called their card game poque, which it is said to have originated from the German card game pochen. Maybe some of these games, maybe all of them contributed to the card game we now call poker, which for some is the greatest card game on earth!
Well obviously the purpose of the game is to win the pot which contains all the bets made by the opponents, either by holding the best possible hand, which is better than your opponents, or convince them that you hold the best possible hand, so as to fold theirs, and declared as the winner.
There are variation to the game, and what is considered as the highest ranking hand, but here we’ll take as our starting point games like Seven-card Stud and Texas Hold’em, which are played with a 52 card deck, and there is no joker.
These are the highest ranking cards in descending order, best hand first: |
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Royal Flush - A straight from a ten to an ace and all five cards of the same suit. In poker suit does not matter and pots are split between equally strong hands. |
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Straight Flush - Any straight with all five cards of the same suit. |
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Four of a Kind - Any four cards of the same rank. If two players share the same Four of a Kind, the fifth card will decide who wins the pot, the bigger card the better. |
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Full House - Any three cards of the same rank together with any two cards of the same rank. Our example show "Aces full of Kings" and it is a bigger full house than "Kings full of Aces". |
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Flush - Any five cards of the same suit which are not consecutive. The highest card of the five makes out the rank of the flush. Our example show an Ace-high flush. |
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Straight - Any five consecutive cards of different suits. The ace count as either a high or a low card. Our example show a Five-high straight, which is the lowest possible straight. |
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Three of a Kind - Any three cards of the same rank. Our example show three of a kind in Aces with a King and a Queen as side cards, which is the best possible three of a kind. |
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Two-pair - Any two cards of the same rank together with another two cards of the same rank. Our example show the best possible two-pair, Aces and Kings. The highest pair of the two make out the rank of the two-pair. |
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One-pair - Any two cards of the same rank. Our example show the best possible one-pair hand. |
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High-card - Any hand that does not make up any of the above mentioned hands. Our example show the best possible High-card hand. |
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