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May 4th, 2009
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RANK OF HANDS: LOW POKER
In low poker, the ranking of hands is the opposite to that of high poker, with the lowest hand being the most powerful. The ace is considered the lowest and therefore most powerful card. The hand 5 4 3 2 A is the best low total possible. (See the section on Lowball for further discussion of low poker rankings.)
MONEY AND CHIPS
Chips are the standard and accepted currency for casino and private poker games, though cash is sometimes used as well. Players prefer the use of chips for betting purposes as the handling of money at the tables is cumbersome and can slow a game down. There's something impersonal and distant about chips, and using them removes players from the reality of losing actual money when they lose.
In casino poker, the standard denominations of chips are $1, $5, $25, and $100. In big money games, you can sometimes find $1,000 and $5000 chips. In games with 250 and 500 antes, regular quarters and half dollars are also used. Though some casinos use their own color code, the typical color scheme of poker chips is : $1 - blue, $5 - red, $25 - green, and $100 - black.
To receive chips in a casino game, give the dealer cash, and he'll give you back the equivalent value in chips. This exchange of cash for chips is called a buy-in. Dealers will accept only cash or chips, so if you have traveler's checks, credit cards, or other forms of money, you need to exchange these for cash at the area marked Casino Cashier. Then, with cash in hand, you can buy chips at the poker table.
In private games, players generally use chips, though sometimes the game will be cash only. When chips are used, one player acts as the bank or banker. He converts players' cash buy-ins to equivalent values in chips. The most common denominations of chips used in private games are one unit, five units, ten units, and twenty-five units. A unit can equal a penny, a dollar, or whatever value is agreed upon and set by the players.
One unit chips are generally white, five units are red, ten units are blue, and twenty-five units are yellow, though any equivalencies or colors may be used.
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May 1st, 2009
The player's object in poker is to win the money in the pot—the accumulation of bets and antes gathered in the center of the table. You can win in two ways. The first way is to have the highest ranking hand at the showdown—the final act in poker, where all active players' hands are revealed to see who has the best one. The second way is to be the last one in when all other players have dropped out of play. In these instances, there is no showdown and the remaining player automatically wins the pot.
PARTICIPANTS
Poker can be played with as few as two players to as many as the 52-card deck can support, usually around eight or nine players. One version of poker, hold 'em, can theoretically support as many as twenty players, though games with more than eleven players are rarely seen in any poker variation.
In a private game, one of the players is designated as the dealer—the person who shuffles and deals the cards to the players. The dealer position changes with each hand, rotating around the table in a clock-wise direction, with each player having a chance to deal. The dealer is still an active player in a private game and enjoys no advantage other than any positional edge he may have for the particular game played.
In casino poker, the dealer is a house employee and non-player. In addition to shuffling and dealing the cards, the house dealer is responsible for supervising and generally running the game. He ensures that all betting is in order and that the proper procedures of play are followed.
In online casino variations where the dealer enjoys a positional advantage, such as hold 'em, lowball, Omaha, and draw poker, a button is utilized to designate the imaginary dealer's position. The button rotates around the table, one spot at a time, in clockwise fashion, so that, as in the private game, each player in turn has a chance to enjoy the advantages of acting last.
Each player in poker plays by himself and for himself alone against all other players. Collusion or partnership play are both illegal and are considered cheating.
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