Questions tagged [poker]
Poker is a family of card-games involving one or more rounds of betting over who holds the best ranked hand of cards. Hand ranks are shared across most variations of Poker and generally determine whether a particular card game is identified as a Poker variant.
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How do you determine the winner of a Texas Hold'em poker hand?
In Texas Hold'em poker, there are some cases where a particular card, often called kicker, acts as a tiebreaker between players to determine who wins the pot, or if the pot has to be shared.
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In Poker, what happens with the next players if paying the big blind puts a player all-in?
In Texas hold'em poker, if a player doesn't have enough chips to pay the big blind, what happens if the next players want to call? Must they pay the entire big blind or not?
For example, a tournament ...
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Why is real-money-betting necessary for poker to be fun?
Obviously, all games may be played with an ante, but it is often not mandatory for the game itself to be fun.
I've long wondered what makes poker so different from everything else: poker, when played ...
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Texas Hold'Em Heads-Up Blind Structure
Why does the Dealer post the small blind and the other player post the big blind?
Normally the person to the left of the dealer will post the small blind then the second player to the left of the ...
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Texas hold'em flush Tie or Not? [duplicate]
I was playing Texas Holdem last night with some friends at my house and this was the hand we were dealt:
My cards 7♠ 6♦
His cards 10♠ 7♥
Cards on table 6♠ 8♠ Q♠ J♠ 2♠
Odd hand. Everyone else ...
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