Illustration of poker
- 1 five of a kind
- 2 royal flush
- 3 straight flush
- 4 four of a kind
- 5 full house
- 6 flush
- 7 straight
- 8 three of a kind
- 9 two pair
- 10 one pair
: any of several card games in which a player bets that the value of his or her hand is greater than that of the hands held by others, in which each subsequent player must either equal or raise the bet or drop out, and in which the player holding the highest hand at the end of the betting wins the pot
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Yessar Rosendar, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2025
Kansas City went 11-0 in one-score games this past fall, the kind of poker streak nobody in this league can sustain.
—Sean Keeler, The Denver Post, 15 Jan. 2025
Who’d have imagined that the most talked about game of 2024 would be a poker game without gambling?
—Hayes Madsen, Rolling Stone, 11 Jan. 2025
And then, once again, those sins were washed away, lock, stock and poker chips, on Jan. 17 and 18, 1862.
—Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2025
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Mathieson runs his poker machine and pub empire, Australian Liquor and Hospitality, in a joint venture with supermarket giant Woolworths.
—Yessar Rosendar, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2025
Kansas City went 11-0 in one-score games this past fall, the kind of poker streak nobody in this league can sustain.
—Sean Keeler, The Denver Post, 15 Jan. 2025
Who’d have imagined that the most talked about game of 2024 would be a poker game without gambling?
—Hayes Madsen, Rolling Stone, 11 Jan. 2025
And then, once again, those sins were washed away, lock, stock and poker chips, on Jan. 17 and 18, 1862.
—Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2025
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“Poker.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/poker. Accessed 23 Jan. 2025.
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