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Poker is a card game that requires both skill and luck to win. It is played with a conventional 52-card deck and can be either a cash or tournament game. The rules vary between different variations of the game but the fundamentals are the same. The goal of the game is to make a winning hand by betting or bluffing against your opponents.<\/p>\n
Depending on the rules of the particular variant being played, one or more players must place an initial amount of money into the pot (representing chips or real cash) before the cards are dealt. This is known as the \u201cblind bet\u201d or the \u201cante.\u201d In each of the betting intervals in a deal, players may choose to call, raise, or fold.<\/p>\n
The player who has the best 5 card poker hand wins the pot, consisting of all bets placed by the players at each stage of the game. This is called the \u201cshowdown.\u201d The final card is dealt face up in the last betting round, which is known as the river. A player may also win a side pot by betting on a hand that is not the best 5 card poker hand.<\/p>\n
The term poker is derived from the Persian card game of as nas, which is thought to have been brought to Europe by Persian sailors during the Renaissance. It is related to the French game poque, which itself may have originated from the German game pochen and the English game brag (earlier bragg), both of which incorporated the concept of bluffing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"