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How to Play Poker

Poker isn’t just one game. It’s really a group of related games that have a number of common elements, including hand rankings, checking, betting, calling, folding, raising, bluffing, and a few other things too. Poker has been described as a game of money played with cards, and that’s truer than you might realize at first glance.

If money wasn’t a major element in this game, poker wouldn’t be a test of will and skill. It would be a game of luck, with each player retaining his or her hand until the very end, when the best hand would always win.

“If there weren't luck involved, I guess I'd win every one.”
- Phil Hellmuth, after losing in the 2004 World Series of Poker.
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