Illustration of poker
- 1 five of a kind
- 2 royal flush
- 3 straight flush
- 4 four of a kind
- 5 full house
- 6 flush
- 7 straight
- 8 three of a kind
- 9 two pair
- 10 one pair
: any of several card games in which a player bets that the value of his or her hand is greater than that of the hands held by others, in which each subsequent player must either equal or raise the bet or drop out, and in which the player holding the highest hand at the end of the betting wins the pot
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Ahjané Forbes, USA TODAY, 26 Sep. 2024
The benefit will feature casino-style table games such as poker, blackjack, roulette and craps.
—Deb Harvell, arkansasonline.com, 23 Sep. 2024
The top poker players used to be intuitive in their approach, but the best poker players in the modern era play more by data than by their guts.
—Jim Euchner, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
The historic Oak Room, where Al Capone often played poker, is reportedly haunted.
—Rachel Smith, The Courier-Journal, 30 Sep. 2024
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—Ahjané Forbes, USA TODAY, 26 Sep. 2024
The benefit will feature casino-style table games such as poker, blackjack, roulette and craps.
—Deb Harvell, arkansasonline.com, 23 Sep. 2024
The top poker players used to be intuitive in their approach, but the best poker players in the modern era play more by data than by their guts.
—Jim Euchner, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
The historic Oak Room, where Al Capone often played poker, is reportedly haunted.
—Rachel Smith, The Courier-Journal, 30 Sep. 2024
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“Poker.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/poker. Accessed 18 Nov. 2024.
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