Posts Tagged ‘community card poker’
Posted by Nicolae on June 26th, 2008 under Poker, Poker variants Guide
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The card game of poker has many variations, most of them created in the United States in the mid-1900s. The standard order of play applies to most of these games, but to fully specify a poker game requires details about which hand values are used, the number of betting rounds, and [...]
Posted by Nicolae on June 22nd, 2008 under Poker, Poker terminology Guide
Tags: community card poker, games, hands, nut hand, nuts, Poker, strong hand •
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In poker, the nut hand, or just the nuts, is the strongest hand possible in any particular situation. The term applies mostly to community card poker games to mean the individual holding that makes the strongest hand possible with the given board of community cards. By extension, the term is used [...]
Posted by Nicolae on June 12th, 2008 under Poker, Poker Guide
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The history of poker is a matter of some debate. The name of the game likely descended from the French poque, which descended from the German pochen (’to knock’), but it is not clear whether the origins of poker itself lie with the games bearing those names. It closely resembles the Persian [...]
Posted by Nicolae on June 12th, 2008 under Poker, Poker Guide
Tags: card game, cards, community card poker, draw poker, five-card draw, game play, players, Poker, pot, seven-card stud, stud poker, texas hold 'em, variants, variations, video poker, vying games, wagers •
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Poker Room at the Trump Taj Mahal, Atlantic City, New Jersey
Poker is a card game, the most popular of a class of games called vying games, in which players with fully or partially concealed cards make wagers into a central pot, which is awarded to the player or players with the [...]
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