Illustration of poker
- 1 five of a kind
- 2 royal flush
- 3 straight flush
- 4 four of a kind
- 5 full house
- 6 flush
- 7 straight
- 8 three of a kind
- 9 two pair
- 10 one pair
: any of several card games in which a player bets that the value of his or her hand is greater than that of the hands held by others, in which each subsequent player must either equal or raise the bet or drop out, and in which the player holding the highest hand at the end of the betting wins the pot
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Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 18 Mar. 2025
For the video, Dacus and her hot mascs had been playing poker and darts, arm-wrestling, boxing, puffing cigars, lifting weights.
—Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 17 Mar. 2025
The plot revolves around Molly Bloom (Jessica Chastain), who rises from Olympic hopeful to the mastermind behind one of the most exclusive high-stakes underground poker games in the world.
—Travis Bean, Forbes, 15 Mar. 2025
How to play poker The goal in poker is to get the best combination of five cards – better than the other players at the table.
—Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 13 Mar. 2025
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We were also inspired by those celebrity poker games from like the ’90s.
—Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 18 Mar. 2025
For the video, Dacus and her hot mascs had been playing poker and darts, arm-wrestling, boxing, puffing cigars, lifting weights.
—Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 17 Mar. 2025
The plot revolves around Molly Bloom (Jessica Chastain), who rises from Olympic hopeful to the mastermind behind one of the most exclusive high-stakes underground poker games in the world.
—Travis Bean, Forbes, 15 Mar. 2025
How to play poker The goal in poker is to get the best combination of five cards – better than the other players at the table.
—Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 13 Mar. 2025
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“Poker.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/poker. Accessed 31 Mar. 2025.
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