{"id":103,"date":"2022-03-23T03:27:43","date_gmt":"2022-03-23T03:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lateral-line.org\/?p=103"},"modified":"2022-03-23T03:27:43","modified_gmt":"2022-03-23T03:27:43","slug":"the-basics-of-poker-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lateral-line.org\/index.php\/2022\/03\/23\/the-basics-of-poker-3\/","title":{"rendered":"The Basics of Poker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Poker, the highest-hand wins the pot. In a tie, the player with the highest pair is the winner. If the opener has no pairs or is trying to bluff, the second-highest pair wins the pot. If the hand has two or more cards of the same suit, the high card breaks the tie. If the high-card holder has a higher pair, the pot plays. Otherwise, the players with the lowest pair win the hand.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Poker\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/BD4vSkx.jpg\" style=\"max-width:42% max-height:285px; width:auto; margin:0px 10px; height:auto;\"> <\/p>\n<p>There are several different poker variations. The most common is Hold &#8217;em,&#8217; which is played with seven players. In games with more players, you will need to provide chips. There are two types of chips: a white and a blue. The white chip is the lowest value and is worth five cents. The red chip is worth 10 or twenty-five cents, while the blue chip is worth two, four, or five cents. When playing, each player buys into the game by purchasing a chip with the same value.<\/p>\n<p>There are many variations of poker. The most common is Texas Hold&#8217;em. In Texas Hold&#8217;em, you&#8217;ll find the most popular game variations. The game also has multiple forms. In the Texas Hold&#8217;em variation, the game is similar to Omaha. For example, Omaha is similar to Omaha in that it&#8217;s played against the same number of players. No-limit poker is similar to no-limit. All the variations have a betting structure that allows players to raise and call with the same amounts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Poker, the highest-hand wins the pot. In a tie, the player with the highest pair is the winner. If the opener has no pairs or is trying to bluff, the second-highest pair wins the pot. If the hand has two or more cards of the same suit, the high card breaks the tie. If [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lateral-line.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lateral-line.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lateral-line.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lateral-line.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lateral-line.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lateral-line.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104,"href":"http:\/\/lateral-line.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions\/104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lateral-line.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lateral-line.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lateral-line.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}