Poker is a card game involving betting between 2 or more players. Each player is dealt two cards and then five community cards are revealed on the table called the “flop”. There will be a round of betting from these 5 cards (called the pot). The best hand wins the pot. The higher the hand, the more it pays.
There are many variations of poker, but the game remains the same. In a game of poker, you win by making a high-ranked hand and bluffing to make your opponents fold. Poker is a game of chance and luck, but good players learn to weigh their chances of winning against the cost of calling to see if they can improve their hand.
A royal flush is the highest possible hand in poker. It consists of all five cards of the same suit in consecutive rank. A straight contains 5 cards that skip around in rank but are from the same suits. Three of a kind contains 3 matching cards of one rank and 2 matching cards of another rank. Two pair contains two distinct pairs and a high card breaks ties.
It is important to understand that in both poker and life you will get a lot of good hands and some bad ones. The key is to maximise your winnings and minimise your losses. This is known as MinMax (Minimum Losses Maximise Winnings). This can be achieved by understanding the odds of your winning hands and by estimating how much it will cost to call when you have a losing hand.
