What are the basic rules of poker?
Most variants of poker satisfy the following definition, but in a home game of course you are free to modify the rules as you see fit. Poker is a card game in which players bet into a communal pot during the course of a hand, and in which the player holding the best hand at the end of the betting wins the pot. During a given betting round, each remaining player in turn may take one of four actions: – check, a bet of zero that does not forfeit interest in the pot – bet or raise, a nonzero bet greater than preceding bets that all successive players must match or exceed or else forfeit all interest in the pot – call, a nonzero bet equal to a preceding bet that maintains a player’s interest in the pot – fold, a surrender of interest in the pot in response to another player’s bet, accompanied by the loss of one’s cards and previous bets Betting usually proceeds in a circle until each player has either called all bets or folded. Different poker games have various numbers of betting rounds in
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