Poker is a card game in which players try to form the best hand possible. It is played in various forms around the world.<\/p>\n
During play, each player acts in turn (clockwise rotation), and can make choices by either calling a bet, raising a bet, or folding. To call, a player must match the amount of a bet made by an opponent; to raise, a player must increase the previous high bet; to fold, a player must drop out of the hand.<\/p>\n
Betting rounds commence with an initial forced bet called an ante. Depending on the rules of the game, this may be a single unit (the smallest amount in play), or a proportion such as a half or a quarter of a normal bet.<\/p>\n
Once all active players have placed their bets, the betting round ends and the highest hand wins the pot. Often, a player can make change out of the pot before placing their bet, but this is not always allowed.<\/p>\n
A hand with four cards of the same rank is called a \u201cfour of a kind.\u201d Ties are broken by the highest card outside the four of a kind. Ties may also be broken by the highest card in a pair, a flush, a straight, or any combination of those hands.<\/p>\n
The hand with the highest card of a suit is called a royal flush. A royal flush consists of a 10, Jack, Queen, King, or Ace of that suit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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