Generally speaking, Poker is a gambling game played between a minimum of six to eight players. The aim of the game is to earn the most chips from your opponents. The highest hand wins the pot. There are hundreds of variations of poker. Most games limit players to eight or nine players. The earliest form of poker in Europe was probably the 17th century French game poque. The game was brought to the New World by French settlers.

A poker hand consists of five cards. Each card has a suit. In some variants, there are wild cards, which allow players to make any hand they like. The rank of a poker hand is determined by the odds of the cards in the hand.

A four of a kind is four cards of the same rank. When there are two fours of a kind, a higher card breaks the tie. A pair of aces is the lowest pair, although the ace can be high or low.

A straight flush is a five-card hand with no ties. A high straight-flush is called the Royal Flush. The straight flush begins with the highest value card. Depending on the variant, the Royal Flush can start with an ace or low card.

Poker consists of two rounds of betting. The first round begins when the first active player to the left of the button deals the cards face-up in rotation. The second round begins after the flop.