Poker: Basic Rules
Poker is a card game in which players bet into a communal pot during
the course of a hand, and in which the player holding the best hand
(according to the particular games rules) at the end of the betting
wins the pot.
During a given betting round, each player in turn may take one of
four actions:
- check: a bet of zero that does not forfeit interest in the pot
- bet or raise: a bet greater than preceding bets that all successive
players must match or exceed or else forfeit all interest in the
pot
- call: a bet equal to a preceding bet that maintains a player's
interest in the pot
- fold: a surrender of interest in the pot in response to another
player's bet, accompanied by the loss of one's cards and previous
bets
Betting usually proceeds in a circle until each player has either
called all bets or folded. Different poker games have various numbers
of betting rounds interspersed with the receipt or replacement of
cards.
Poker is usually played with a standard 4-suit 52-card deck, but
a joker or other wild cards may be added. Each suit contains 13
cards, ranked from highest to lowest as: Ace, King, Queen, Jack,
10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 (in some games the Ace can also be counted
as 1).
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