Posts Tagged ‘stud poker’

Blind man’s bluff poker

Posted by Nicolae on July 11th, 2008 under Poker, Poker variants Guide, games
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Blind man’s bluff is a version of poker which is unconventional in that each person sees the cards of all players except his own.The standard version (also called Indian poker) is simply high card. Each player is dealt one card which he places on his forehead facing outwards, and a round of [...]

Stud poker

Posted by Nicolae on July 2nd, 2008 under Poker, Stud poker, games
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Stud poker is any of a number of poker variants in which each player receives a mix of face-down and face-up cards dealt in multiple betting rounds. Stud games are also typically non-positional games, meaning that the player who bets first on each round may change from round to round (it is [...]

Poker variants

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 [...]

History of poker

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 [...]

Poker

Posted by Nicolae on June 12th, 2008 under Poker, Poker Guide
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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 [...]