Poker Definition

Poker is a popular type of card game in which players bet on the value of the card combination ("hand") in their possession, by placing a bet into a central pot.

The winner is the one who holds the hand with the highest value according to an established hand rankings hierarchy, or otherwise the player who remains "in the hand" after all others have folded (the player who makes an un-called bet.).

Poker has many variations, all following a similar pattern of play.

Depending on the variant, hands may be formed using cards which are concealed from others, or from a combination of concealed cards and community cards.

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Poker Quotes

Poker is a microcosm of all we admire and disdain about capitalism and democracy. It can be rough-hewn or polished, warm or cold, charitable and caring, or hard and impersonal, fickle and elusive, but ultimately it is fair, and right, and just - Lou Krieger

Poker is to cards and games what jazz is to music. It's this great American thing, born and bred here. We dig it because everybody can play - Steve Lipscomb

Most of the money you'll win at poker comes not from the brilliance of your own play, but from the ineptitude of your opponents - Lou Krieger

Poker is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you could find outside an advertising agency - Raymond Chandler