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A game of Texas hold 'em in progress. 'Hold 'em' is a popular form of poker.
Poker is a family of card games that combines gambling, strategy and different skills. All poker variants involve betting as an intrinsic part of play, and determine the winner of each hand according to the combinations of players' cards, at least some of which remain hidden until the end of the hand. Poker games vary in the number of cards dealt, the number of shared or 'community' cards, the number of cards that remain hidden, and the betting procedures.
In most modern poker games the first round of betting begins with one or more of the players making some form of a forced bet (the blind or ante). In standard poker, each player bets according to the rank they believe their hand is worth as compared to the other players. The action then proceeds clockwise as each player in turn must either match (or 'call') the maximum previous bet, or fold, losing the amount bet so far and all further involvement in the hand. A player who matches a bet may also 'raise' (increase) the bet. The betting round ends when all players have either called the last bet or folded. If all but one player folds on any round, the remaining player collects the pot without being required to reveal their hand. If more than one player remains in contention after the final betting round, a showdown takes place where the hands are revealed, and the player with the winning hand takes the pot.
With the exception of initial forced bets, money is only placed into the pot voluntarily by a player who either believes the bet has positive expected value or who is trying to bluff other players for various strategic reasons. Thus, while the outcome of any particular hand significantly involves chance, the long-run expectations of the players are determined by their actions chosen on the basis of probability, psychology, and game theory.
Poker has increased in popularity since the beginning of the 20th century and has gone from being primarily a recreational activity confined to small groups of enthusiasts to a widely popular activity, both for participants and spectators, including online, with many professional players and multimillion-dollar tournament prizes.
History[edit]
Poker was developed sometime during the early 19th century in the United States. Since those early beginnings, the game has grown to become an extremely popular pastime worldwide.
In the 1937 edition of Foster's Complete Hoyle, R. F. Foster wrote: 'the game of poker, as first played in the United States, five cards to each player from a twenty-card pack, is undoubtedly the Persian game of As-Nas.' By the 1990s some gaming historians including David Parlett started to challenge the notion that poker is a direct derivative of As-Nas. Developments in the 1970s led to poker becoming far more popular than it was before. Modern tournament play became popular in American casinos after the World Series of Poker began, in 1970.[1]
Gameplay[edit]
Examples of top poker hand categories
In casual play, the right to deal a hand typically rotates among the players and is marked by a token called a dealer button (or buck). In a casino, a house dealer handles the cards for each hand, but the button (typically a white plastic disk) is rotated clockwise among the players to indicate a nominal dealer to determine the order of betting. The cards are dealt clockwise around the poker table, one at a time.
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One or more players are usually required to make forced bets, usually either an ante or a blind bet (sometimes both). The dealer shuffles the cards, the player on the chair to his or her right cuts, and the dealer deals the appropriate number of cards to the players one at a time, beginning with the player to his or her left. Cards may be dealt either face-up or face-down, depending on the variant of poker being played. After the initial deal, the first of what may be several betting rounds begins. Between rounds, the players' hands develop in some way, often by being dealt additional cards or replacing cards previously dealt. At the end of each round, all bets are gathered into the central pot.
At any time during a betting round, if one player bets, no opponents choose to call (match) the bet, and all opponents instead fold, the hand ends immediately, the bettor is awarded the pot, no cards are required to be shown, and the next hand begins. This is what makes bluffing possible. Bluffing is a primary feature of poker, one that distinguishes it from other vying games and from other games that make use of poker hand rankings.
At the end of the last betting round, if more than one player remains, there is a showdown, in which the players reveal their previously hidden cards and evaluate their hands. The player with the best hand according to the poker variant being played wins the pot. A poker hand comprises five cards; in variants where a player has more than five cards available to them, only the best five-card combination counts.
Variants[edit]
2006 WSOP Main Event table
Poker variations are played where a 'high hand' or a 'low hand' may be the best desired hand. In other words, when playing a poker variant with 'low poker' the best hand is one that contains the lowest cards (and it can get further complicated by including or not including flushes and straights etc. from 'high hand poker'). So while the 'majority' of poker game variations are played 'high hand', where the best high 'straight, flush etc.' wins, there are poker variations where the 'worst hand' wins, such as 'low ball, acey-ducey, high-lo split etc. game variations'. To summarize, there can be variations that are 'high poker', 'low poker', and 'high low split'. In the case of 'high low split' the pot is divided among the best high hand and low hand.
Poker has many variations,[2][3] all following a similar pattern of play[4] and generally using the same hand ranking hierarchy. There are four main families of variants, largely grouped by the protocol of card-dealing and betting:
There are several methods for defining the structure of betting during a hand of poker. The three most common structures are known as 'fixed-limit', 'pot-limit', and 'no-limit'. In fixed-limit poker, betting and raising must be done by standardized amounts. For instance, if the required bet is X, an initial bettor may only bet X; if a player wishes to raise a bet, they may only raise by X. In pot-limit poker, a player may bet or raise any amount up to the size of the pot. When calculating the maximum raise allowed, all previous bets and calls, including the intending raiser's call, are first added to the pot. The raiser may then raise the previous bet by the full amount of the pot. In no-limit poker, a player may wager their entire betting stack at any point that they are allowed to make a bet. In all games, if a player does not have enough betting chips to fully match a bet, they may go 'all-in', allowing them to show down their hand for the amount of chips they have remaining.
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Other games that use poker hand rankings may likewise be referred to as poker. Video poker is a single-player video game that functions much like a slot machine; most video poker machines play draw poker, where the player bets, a hand is dealt, and the player can discard and replace cards. Payout is dependent on the hand resulting after the draw and the player's initial bet.
Strip poker is a traditional poker variation where players remove clothing when they lose bets. Since it depends only on the basic mechanic of betting in rounds, strip poker can be played with any form of poker; however, it is usually based on simple variants with few betting rounds, like five card draw.
Another game with the poker name, but with a vastly different mode of play, is called Acey-Deucey or Red Dog poker. This game is more similar to Blackjack in its layout and betting; each player bets against the house, and then is dealt two cards. For the player to win, the third card dealt (after an opportunity to raise the bet) must have a value in-between the first two. Payout is based on the odds that this is possible, based on the difference in values of the first two cards. Other poker-like games played at casinos against the house include three card poker and pai gow poker.
Computer programs[edit]
A variety of computer poker players have been developed by researchers at the University of Alberta, Carnegie Mellon University, and the University of Auckland amongst others.
In a January 2015 article[5] published in Science, a group of researchers mostly from the University of Alberta announced that they 'essentially weakly solved' heads-up limit Texas Hold 'em with their development of their Cepheus poker bot. The authors claimed that Cepheus would lose at most 0.001 big blinds per game on average against its worst-case opponent, and the strategy is thus so 'close to optimal' that 'it can't be beaten with statistical significance within a lifetime of human poker playing'.[6]
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Back in March 2017, Eli Elezra released an autobiography Pulling the Trigger: The Autobiography of Poker Pro Eli Elezra, albeit only in Hebrew. Now, the 280-page book is getting an English-version release thanks to Two Plus Two Publishing.
The book, which was six years in the making, opens with the 2004 World Poker Tour Showdown, which Elezra won for more than $1 million to forever cement his image in the minds of poker fans. It also dives into his childhood in Jerusalem, fighting in the 1982 Israeli/Lebanon War, and gutting fish in Alaska. Sprinkled in are stories of poker legends such as Doyle Brunson and David “Chip” Reese.
Strazynski: 'What I like most about the book is that there's something in there for everyone.'
To date, Elezra has more than $3.6 million in lifetime tournament earnings, and countless millions more playing in some of the biggest cash games in the world. Among his career highlights are winning three World Series of Poker bracelets, finishing runner-up in this past summer’s 2018 WSOP Event #9: $10,000 Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship for $258,297, and finishing second to Sean Yu in the 2016 WSOP Circuit Planet Hollywood Main Event for $105,281. More recently, he crushed 888poker Week on Poker After Dark.
Bringing the Book to English Readers
Originally written in Hebrew, Elezra and company wanted to find a way to market the book to English readers, which of course required translation. Enter Robbie Strazynski, founder of CardPlayer Lifestyle and co-host of PokerNews’ Top Pair Home Game Poker Podcast alongside Bruce Briggs.
Strazynski was one of over 200 peoeple who attended the Hebrew version book launch and it was there he was approached about the possibility of translating the book.
“I've always been a big Eli Elezra fan,” Strazynski told PokerNews. “Like so many other poker fans out there, I enjoyed watching him on High Stakes Poker and following his legendary career. To have been asked to undertake a project like this is a true honor, and I'm grateful to have precisely the right set of skills in order to carry out the task.”
'Eli's is just a fascinating story that you don't have to be a poker player or enthusiast to appreciate.'
He continued: “While I speak and understand Hebrew, it's not my mother tongue, so I can't do simultaneous translation like the professionals at the United Nations, for example. The process consisted of 1) scanning the Hebrew book with my eyes while audio recording myself speaking the translation in English. 2) Transcribing the audio recording, which I couldn't really get assistance with because it was pretty raw and not fluent speech. 3) Editing and proofreading the transcription.”
Strazynski took it one chapter at a time, slowly plugging away at it during his downtime. With about 30 percent of the book translated, they began to approach organizers. Once Two Plus Two Publishing came on board, he set about finishing it off.
“What I like most about the book is that there's something in there for everyone, from the more hardcore fans and players who enjoy reading about strategy to the more casual fans and players who are just interested in reading more about a bona fide poker legend they've watched for years on TV,” said Strazynski. “Even beyond that, Eli's is just a fascinating story that you don't have to be a poker player or enthusiast to appreciate. I genuinely think this book has mainstream appeal and that anyone who picks up a copy will be hard-pressed to put it down.”
Pulling the Trigger: The Autobiography of Poker Pro Eli Elezra is slated to release on January 3, 2019 and paperback versions are available for preorder for $24.95 on Amazon.
Here’s a highlight video filmed by Strazynski at the initial launch of Elezra’s book:
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