Poker is a card game that involves betting between players. There are many different poker games, each with a unique set of rules and strategy. However, most poker variants involve similar elements of probability, psychology, and game theory.
A round of betting begins once each player has two cards. Players may choose to call, raise, or fold. If they call, they put chips into the pot equal to the amount raised by the person before them. If they raise, they put in more than the original bet and are said to have “raised” the pot.
After the initial round of betting, one more card is dealt to each player. There is then another round of betting, which is called the turn. The first player to act after this is the player on the left of the dealer.
The player with the best hand wins the pot. The best hand is made up of a pair or higher, such as a full house (three cards of the same rank) or a straight (5 consecutive cards of the same suit). If no one has a high enough hand to win, then all remaining bets are collected and the dealer wins. The game is played with a standard 53-card deck, which includes a joker, which acts as a wild card in some poker variants.