What is Poker?

Poker is a five-card vying game played with standard playing-cards.

A vying game is one where, instead of playing their cards out, the players bet as to who holds the best card combination by progressively raising the stakes until either -

* there is a showdown, when the best hand wins all the stakes (‘the pot’), or
* all but one player have given up betting and dropped out of play, when the last person to raise wins the pot without a showdown.

It is therefore possible for the pot to be won by a hand that is not in fact the best, everyone else having been bluffed out of play. One of Poker's earliest names was, in fact, ‘Bluff’. Bluffing is as essential to vying as finessing is to trick-play.

A five-card vying game is one where, no matter how many cards may be dealt to each player, the only valid combinations are those of five cards. In orthodox Poker these are, from highest to lowest:

* straight flush (five cards in suit and sequence, Ace high or low, as heartAKQJ10 or spade5432A)
* four of a kind, fours (four cards of the same rank and one idler, as K-K-K-K-x)
* full house (three of one rank and two of another, as Q-Q-Q-4-4)
* flush (five cards in suit but not in sequence, as heartJ-heart9-heart8-heart7-heart3)
* straight (five cards in sequence but not in suit, as spade10-spade9-diamond8-club7-heart6)
* three of a kind, threes, triplet, trips (three of the same rank plus two of two different ranks, as 7-7-7-x-y)
* two pair (as Q-Q-9-9-x)
* one pair (as 3-3-x-y-z)
* high card (no combination: as between two such hands the one with the highest card wins)

(The highest possible straight flush, consisting of A-K-Q-J-10 of a suit and known as a royal flush, is sometimes added to the list in order to bring the number of combinations up to the more desirable ten, but of course it is not different in kind from a straight flush. Other five-card combinations, known as freak hands, are recognized in unorthodox Poker variants.)

Any vying game based on these five-card hands is a form of Poker, and any game lacking either or both of them is not, even if it contains Poker as part of its title.

Poker is of French-American origin and is the national vying game of the United States, though it has come to have a world-wide following in many different forms.

Why bet on online sports?

Sports betting online is a popular means by which to place bets on sporting events. When betting online, a potential bettor must open an online sports betting account at an online bookmaker.

Once you have established an online sports betting account, you will need to fund the account. Many sports betting sites accept MasterCard, Visa, and any one of several e-wallets. Bettors living outside the USA can often use their NETeller accounts or PayPal accounts to fund their online sports betting account.

Upon funding your sports betting online account, you will often receive a bonus of sorts. Some sports betting sites offer a free bet, while others will offer either a match bonus, or guarantee winners by providing a partial rebate on bets lost up to a certain amount. However the method, it is commonplace for an online sports betting site to offer some sort of bonus to entice potential sports bettors to fund their online sports betting accounts.

As soon as you are funded, you may find the sport and team or teams you wish to bet on. Most sports online betting sites offer all the major sports for wagering, including football, basketball, baseball, and soccer. Additionally, bettors may bet on tennis, rugby, boxing, horse racing, auto racing, and even golf!

When betting on a sport, a bettor may often bet on individual teams by way of either a point spread or by the money line. When betting via the point spread, the underdog receives points. Thus, the underdog team is spotted points prior to the beginning of the match. As a result, they may lose the actual match, yet win on a betting ticket. When betting the money line, however, the team who wins the match also wins the bet. With money line betting, the underdog pays out more on a win that the favorite does – as the favorite is expected to win.

In addition to betting on actual matches, betting customers of online sports betting sites can make proposition bets. We can bet on anything from will Wayne Rooney score a goal in his upcoming football match, to whether a fight will go longer than six rounds, or even how many majors Tiger Woods will win in the current golfing season.

Online sports betting sites offer many different sports to bet on. When using an online sports betting site, you may bet on teams, events, propositions and even futures, such as what team will win the Super Bowl.

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