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The Rules of Poker
There are many variations of poker, but they are all played in the same manner. Verse yourself in the basic rules of play for poker.
Poker is a card game in which players bet into a communal pot during the course of a hand, and in which the player holding the best hand at the end of the betting wins the pot. During a given betting round, each remaining player in turn may take one of four actions:
- Check: a bet of zero that does not forfeit interest in the pot
- Bet or raise: a nonzero bet greater than preceding bets that all successive players must match or exceed or else forfeit all interest in the pot
- Call: a nonzero bet equal to a preceding bet that maintains a player's interest in the pot
- Fold: a surrender of interest in the pot in response to another player's bet, accompanied by the loss of one's cards and previous bets
Betting usually proceeds in a circle until each player has either called all bets or folded. Different poker games have various numbers of betting rounds interspersed with the receipt or replacement of cards.
Poker is usually played with a 52-card deck, but a joker or other wild cards may be added. The ace normally plays high, but can sometimes play low, as explained below. At the showdown, those players still remaining compare their hands according to the hand rankings which you can find on our Poker Hand Rankings page.
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