About Poker
The Greatest Card Game
Poker is a classical game
of cards, played all over
the world in countless
variations. Usually, your
goal as a player is to
assemble the best five-card
poker hand.
A Game of Betting
But poker is also a game
of betting. In order to get
the cards you need, you will
have to pay a price. That
price is decided by the bets
put in by yourself and the
other players around the
table. The bets make up the
pot, which in the end is won
by the player with the best
hand.
A Game of People
Therefore, one of your
main challenges when playing
poker will be to understand
why the other players bet
the way they do, or why they
don't bet. It is sometimes
claimed that poker is in
fact not so much a game of
cards, as a game of people.
Determining the Winning
Hand
Although hundreds of
poker variations are played
around the world, most of
them agree on one point: The
ranking of the five card
poker hands.
The following poker hand
ranking is almost universal,
and it is the one
fundamental piece of
knowledge you absolutely
have to master when you
start out on your poker
career.
Hand Rankings
Below are images of poker
hands, listed in order from
highest to lowest.
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