Basic poker rules
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Basic poker rules: how to play poker
Poker is played with one complete pack of fifty-two cards. The poker dealer deals five cards face downwards, one at a time. You look at your hand, and then you can exchange as many of your cards as you like for cards dealt to you, face downwards, from the top of the remainder of the pack. The object of this exchange is to improve one's original hand (assuming it to be susceptible of improvement) with a view to securing one of the following poker scoring combinations. These are given in descending order of rank, i.e. a Royal Straight Flush is the best combination to hold in poker.
Basic poker rules: poker hand ranks
Poker scoring combinations (poker hand) in descending order of rank:
- Royal Straight Flush
- Straight Flush
- Four of a Kind
- Full House
- Flush
- Straight
- Three of a Kind
- Two Pairs
- Pair
Royal straight flush
The best possible poker hand. Ace, King, Queen, Jack and 10 of a suit.
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Straight flush
5 cards in order (such as 9-8-7-6-5) all of the same suit.
A Straight Flush headed by a King beats a Straight Flush headed by a Queen. This, in turn, beats a Straight Flush headed by a Knave, and so on.
As in a regular straight, you can have an ace either high (A-K-Q-J-T) or low (A-2-3-4-5). You can not use the Ace in a wraparound and example would be K-A-2-3-4, which is not a straight.
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Four of a kind
I. e. four cards of the same denomination. Four Kings, four 9's, four 3's, and so on. Four Aces beat four Kings; four Kings beat four Queens (this general principle following throughout). It is a matter of indifference what the fifth card of the hand is.
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Full house
I. e. three cards of one denomination and two of another. Thus, three Queens and two 5's constitute a Full House, and so do three 5's and two Queens. The comparative value of Full Houses depends upon the denomination of the three similar cards contained in it.
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Flush
I.e. five cards of the same suit. Flushes, if in competition with one another, rank according to the highest card. If both Flushes are headed, for example, by Aces, they rank according to their next card, and so on.
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Straight
I. e. five cards in sequence regardless of their suit. Straights, in competition with one another, rank according to the top card. Straights headed by the same top card are equal.
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Three of a kind
I. e. three cards of the same denomination accompanied by two others not of the same denomination. For example, three Kings, a 6 and a 4.
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Two pairs
I. e. two Kings, two 4's and one other card. Where two pairs are in competition with one another, the player holding the higher pair wins. Where the higher pair is the same, the player with the better lower pair wins. Where both pairs are the same, the player whose fifth card is the higher wins.
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Pair
I.e. two Kings, two 9's, etc, accompanied in each case by three 'worthless' cards. Where equal pairs are in competition, the highest outstanding card decides.
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Poker betting rules
- Press on the chips; thereby placing that amount in the machines' Credit Box.
- Press the "One" button, once for each $1 you wish to bet, or the "Max" button to place the maximum bet of $5.
- After betting using the "One" button, press the "Deal Draw" button, and you will be dealt one five-card Poker hand. (If the player uses the "Max" button to bet, the deal will occur automatically.)
- After the first draw, press "Hold" under the cards, if any, that you wish to keep.
- Press "Draw" again, thereby replacing the cards that you have not chosen to hold with new ones.
