{"id":1461,"date":"2024-01-14T00:07:33","date_gmt":"2024-01-14T00:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lateral-line.org\/?p=1461"},"modified":"2024-01-14T00:07:34","modified_gmt":"2024-01-14T00:07:34","slug":"the-basics-of-poker-106","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lateral-line.org\/index.php\/2024\/01\/14\/the-basics-of-poker-106\/","title":{"rendered":"The Basics of Poker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Poker is a card game where players place bets on their hand. The player with the best five-card hand wins the pot. There are many different variations of poker, but they all have similar rules. At the beginning of the game, each player puts a certain amount of chips into the pot (called an ante). Then, cards are dealt. Then each player bets in turn. A bet must at least match the amount of the previous bet, but may exceed it. A bet that exactly matches the previous bet is called calling, while a bet that increases the amount of the previous bet is raising.<\/p>\n<p>A pair is two distinct cards of the same rank, and a three-of-a-kind is three distinct cards of the same rank. Four of a kind is four cards of the same rank, and a flush is five consecutive matching cards, and high card breaks ties.<\/p>\n<p>You can also get a full house, which is four of a kind and the queen of spades. There is also a straight, which is five cards in a row of the same rank. A high card is any card that doesn\u2019t qualify as a pair, three of a kind, or any of the other hands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poker is a card game where players place bets on their hand. The player with the best five-card hand wins the pot. There are many different variations of poker, but they all have similar rules. At the beginning of the game, each player puts a certain amount of chips into the pot (called an ante). [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lateral-line.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lateral-line.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lateral-line.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lateral-line.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lateral-line.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1461"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lateral-line.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1462,"href":"https:\/\/lateral-line.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1461\/revisions\/1462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lateral-line.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lateral-line.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lateral-line.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}