{"id":410,"date":"2022-08-16T19:57:28","date_gmt":"2022-08-16T19:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lateral-line.org\/?p=410"},"modified":"2022-08-16T19:57:29","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T19:57:29","slug":"a-beginners-guide-to-poker-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lateral-line.org\/index.php\/2022\/08\/16\/a-beginners-guide-to-poker-3\/","title":{"rendered":"A Beginner&#8217;s Guide to Poker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Poker is a card game where the aim is to bet your best hand against your opponent&#8217;s best hand. Each player in a game must ante an amount of money (varies with the game) and bet into a central pot. The highest-ranking hand wins the pot. Betting proceeds clockwise from the dealer to the first player. After all players have bet, the dealer must offer his shuffled pack to a player who has cut it.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the cards, you will also need chips. In most cases, you&#8217;ll use a 52-card deck of cards with four of each card in four different suits. Chips are also easier to handle than cash and it&#8217;s easier to keep track of them. Players often prefer to play with chips instead of cash because they&#8217;re easier to count, track, and make change. Each chip represents a different dollar amount. Several types of chips can be used to play the same hand.<\/p>\n<p>The standard hand ranking is based on odds. For instance, a hand with five of a kind beats a straight flush. Moreover, wild cards can increase the chances of making a five-of-a-kind, the highest hand in poker. Its high rank is also known as a &#8220;high pair.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poker is a card game where the aim is to bet your best hand against your opponent&#8217;s best hand. Each player in a game must ante an amount of money (varies with the game) and bet into a central pot. The highest-ranking hand wins the pot. Betting proceeds clockwise from the dealer to the first [&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-410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lateral-line.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410","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=410"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lateral-line.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":411,"href":"http:\/\/lateral-line.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410\/revisions\/411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lateral-line.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lateral-line.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lateral-line.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}