In poker, players form sets of five playing cards, called hands, according to the rules of the game. Each hand has a rank, which is compared against the...

Poker, see the Poker category of words in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The following is a glossary of poker terms used in the card game of poker....

used in poker derivatives such as Texas hold 'em and Omaha hold 'em poker. These nicknames are usually used by the player when announcing their hand or by...

Poker is a family of comparing card games in which players wager over which hand is best according to that specific game's rules. It is played worldwide...

Pai gow poker (also called double-hand poker) is a version of pai gow that is played with playing cards, instead of traditional pai gow's Chinese dominoes...

Non-standard poker hands are hands which are not recognized by official poker rules but are made by house rules. Non-standard hands usually appear in games...

Online poker is the game of poker played over the Internet. It has been partly responsible for a huge increase in the number of poker players worldwide...

In poker, the probability of each type of 5-card hand can be computed by calculating the proportion of hands of that type among all possible hands. Probability...

applies to most of these games, but to fully specify a poker game requires details about which hand values are used, the number of betting rounds, and exactly...

Lowball or low poker is a variant of poker in which the normal ranking of hands is inverted. Several variations of lowball poker exist, differing in whether...

("the river" or "fifth street"). Each player seeks the best five-card poker hand from any combination of the seven cards: the five community cards and...

Three Card Poker is a casino table game based on poker. It was designed in 1994 by Derek Webb. The casino variant of Three Card Poker was first created...

The makeup of poker's dead man's hand has varied through the years. Currently, it is described as a two-pair poker hand consisting of the black aces and...

PokerStars is an online poker cardroom. It is the largest real money online poker site in the world, controlling over two-thirds of the total online poker...

throughout the hand. The player's "playing hand", which will be compared against that of each competing player, is the best 5-card poker hand available from...

Video poker is a casino game based on five-card draw poker. It is played on a computerized console similar in size to a slot machine. Video poker first...

Chinese poker is a card game based on poker hand rankings. It is intended as a beginner-friendly game, with only a basic knowledge of poker hand rankings...

commission fee taken by a cardroom operating a poker game. It is generally 2.5% to 10% of the pot in each poker hand, up to a predetermined maximum amount. There...

using the 52-card deck instead of 20 for poker. The object of Razz is to make the lowest possible five-card hand from the seven cards you are dealt. In...

"Dead Man's Hand" is the series premiere of the American murder mystery comedy-drama television series Poker Face. The episode was written and directed...

Stud poker is any of a number of poker variants in which each player receives a mix of face-down and face-up cards dealt in multiple betting rounds. Stud...

an objective of presenting the least probable or highest-scoring hand. A poker hand is usually a configuration of five cards depending on the variant...

In poker, the nut hand (or the nuts) is the strongest possible hand in a given situation. The second-nut hand or third-nut hand (and so on) may refer to...

Ace, King, Queen, Jack, 10, and 9, and are used to form a poker hand. Each variety of poker dice varies slightly in regard to suits, though the ace of...

tell in poker is a change in a player's behavior or demeanor that is claimed by some to give clues to that player's assessment of their hand. A player...

card in a poker hand that does not itself take part in determining the rank of the hand, but that may be used to break ties between hands of the same...

Draw poker is any poker variant in which each player is dealt a complete hand before the first betting round, and then develops the hand for later rounds...

down. It uses a standard 52-card deck without jokers. The hand rankings are just like in poker except that aces are always high. The dealer deals the player...

In the game of poker, the play largely centers on the act of betting, and as such, a protocol has been developed to speed up play, lessen confusion, and...

In the card game of poker, a bluff is a bet or raise made with a hand which is not thought to be the best hand. To bluff is to make such a bet. The objective...