by Jerry "Jet" Whittaker

Jan 10, 2007

Gambling Poker – Play Poker

The sport of gambling includes several games under its purview. Most of the gambling enthusiasts prefer to play games like baccarat, blackjack, craps and roulette, either in the casinos or on the Internet. However, the most commonly played and arguably the most popular gambling game is poker. The game of poker has an exclusive following of enthusiasts who like to play only poker and no other game of gambling.

Poker Rules

Several people prefer poker as they find it very easy to follow and master. Poker is basically a card game in which the cards are ranked in the descending order. In poker, Ace is the highest card followed by King, Queen and Jack with 2 being the lowest. The game is based on hands and the players must understand the value of each hand before they start playing the game of poker. The hands are ranked in the following manner:

1)  Royal Flush: This is the highest hand in which the player must have Ace, King, Queen, Jack and10 of the same suit.

2)  Straight Flush: In this hand, the player is expected to have five cards of the same suit in a sequence.

3)  4 of a kind: This hand consists of four cards of the same rank.

4)  Full House: When a player has a full house hand, he would have three cards of one kind along with a pair.

5)  Flush: With flush, a player would have all the five cards from a single suit.

6)  Straight: The straight is lower to flush and consists of five cards in a sequence.

7)  3 of one kind: In this type of hand, a player is expected to have three cards of equal rank and two other cards.

8)  2 pair: In this hand, a player may have two pairs of cards along with three different cards.

9)  1 pair: This is the lowest value hand and includes only two cards of equal rank.

Wild Card

Apart from these hands, poker also comprises of a wild card. The wild card is very important to the players as they can give any rank and value to the wild card. Hence they can use it at any given point of time. The wild card can turn the game around totally.

These are some of the fundamental rules of poker that every player must be extremely well versed with. Though, there are certain variations in poker too, people usually like to play the normal version of poker based on the above rules.   

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