Poker

Poker is one of the oldest card games which is being used for money spinning purposes for long - online or offline. Perhaps, nowadays, poker has become the synonym to gambling industry. No one can ever dream of being a gamming operator without having a range of poker variants that cover almost every popular form of the game. Poker has many variants, but the winning objective is always to have the best hand ranking cards to beat the opponents. Being a community game, poker is often played by multiple players simultaneously who compete with each other, however, some poker variants involve competing with the dealer, not players. Poker is, indeed, found in numerous forms, yet there are broadly few versions that are typically played around the world. One of them is: Texas Hold’em, which is the widely played poker form, including its various tournaments that run throughout the year.

Poker Gameplay

Though, there are numerous variants available with their distinct individuality about the number of initially cards, betting options, and community cards, yet the general gameplay always involves initial cards dealing to every player, then betting option passes from the player sitting on the left to the dealer. Each player can choose either to call, raise or fold on his turn, and option then passes to the next player in clockwise direction. When all players have exercised their options, and according to the poker variant; players hand rankings are matched and whoever holds the best hand ranking, wins the game.

The most broadly played poker forms: Texas Hold’em and Omaha, use community cards model where all cards aren’t dealt initially, perhaps, only few initial cards are dealt face down, and rests are taken from community cards. Community cards can be used by anyone to make his hand ranking better.

Poker Hand Rankings

In all poker games, winner is decided based on his hand ranking of five best cards, even if a game involves more than five cards, only best five cards are counted for winning purpose. There’re many predefined poker hand rankings, like royal flush, straight flush, four of a kind, full house, flush, three of a kind, two pair, and pair. However, if no predefined hand ranking is achieved, whoever holds the highest cards; wins the game.

Basically, hand rankings containing same suits, sequential cards, or equal denomination cards worth more than others, like royal and straight flush hand rankings, which require to have all five cards of the same suits. So, it’s better to understand or even memorize the defined hand ranking before playing any poker game.