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Poker Game
by Jerry "Jet" Whittaker
Jan 17, 2007
Poker Game:
The game of poker is
supposedly being considered to have born in the first or
second decade of 19th century. It was
witnessed first in the French territory on the New
Orleans. This game was then brought into the United
States by the Louisiana Purchase in 1803. It was usually
being played in the gambling centers and nowhere else
till 1811 brought it into playing legally. the earliest
known form of Poker was played with a 20-card pack. It
was at that time played between only 4 people.
The poker game play:
Poker is a game played
with standard playing cards. It is a five-card vying
game. A vying game is the one in which a players instead
of playing out their cards, place out their bets first
and then compare in accordance with the ranking of the
card combination. The stakes are increased progressively
and then a showdown is made in which the person with
possessing the best hand wins. The pot is won even
though anyone of the player has dropped out of the play
continuing till the last person when the last person
wins without even a showdown.
Types of poker:
There are many versions
and variations of poker. All the suites in the card deck
are used. Poker
games involve rounds of betting into a common fund
called as a "pot". Some types of pokers include rounds
of replacing/receiving cards. The number of betting
rounds and card draws, all depends on the particular
version of the game one is playing. The play continues
in a clockwise direction. The player on the left hand of
the dealer starts to play first.
Texas Holdem is played
everywhere these days. There are also different rules
for other specific versions of poker. Mostly, players
either make blind bets or disclosed bets into the
community pot. Then the players are dealt with cards,
and a round of betting takes place. At the end of a
round of betting, everyone contributes equally to the
pot. The betting round ends when everyone has
contributed to the pot. Depending on the type of poker
being played, next card action takes place. In some
types of pokers additional cards are dealt to each
player while in some types cards are placed in the
middle of the table called as the board-cards and
players are given an option to redraw or discard new
cards. The number of card actions and betting rounds
alternate a number of times depending upon version of
game.
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