"at the bottom. The main objective of the game is to line up three or more cards in horizontal or vertical poker hands, such as three-of-a-kind, four-of-a-kind, full house, straight, up to a nine-card flush, and a royal flush. Making a legal hand will cause those cards to clear from the board and any cards above them to fall into the gaps left by the cleared cards. As legal hands are made, the player wins poker chips as his or her score. After each single-player game, the player's winnings are added to a running total (the ""bank""), and the player"
"and 3♦ 7♣ 8♦ Q♥ A♥ are not identical hands when just ignoring suit assignments because one hand has three suits, while the other hand has only two—that difference could affect the relative value of each hand when there are more cards to come. However, even though the hands are not identical from that perspective, they still form equivalent poker hands because each hand is an A-Q-8-7-3 high card hand. There are 7,462 distinct poker hands. In some popular variations of poker such as Texas Hold 'Em, a player uses the best five-card poker hand out of seven cards. The"
"pair. Note that since suits have no relative value in poker, two hands can be considered identical if one hand can be transformed into the other by swapping suits. For example, the hand 3♣ 7♣ 8♣ Q♠ A♠ is identical to 3♦ 7♦ 8♦ Q♥ A♥ because replacing all of the clubs in the first hand with diamonds and all of the spades with hearts produces the second hand. So eliminating identical hands that ignore relative suit values, there are only 134,459 distinct hands. The number of distinct poker hands is even smaller. For example, 3♣ 7♣ 8♣ Q♠ A♠"
"player who is seeing loses. For example, with four players A, B, C and D, this situation could occur: Player A bets 2 chips, B folds, C bets 2 chips and D bets 2 chips. In order to stay in, A would have to bet another 2 chips (at least). Hands generally follow the same sequence as the five-card hands of poker with some variation created by the differing odds of a three-card hand. As there are only three cards, four of a kind and a full house are not possible. Three of a kind is a very high-ranked hand,"
"Dead man's hand The dead man's hand is a nickname for a particular poker hand, popularly a two-pair of black aces and black eights, although definitions of the hand have varied through the years. Such a hand is said to have been held by Old West folk hero, lawman, and gunfighter Wild Bill Hickok when he was murdered. No contemporaneous source records this hand's exact cards, but Frank Wilstach's 1926 book ""Wild Bill Hickok: The Prince of Pistoleers"" led to the popular modern conception of the ""dead man's hand"" as containing pairs of black aces and black eights. In Hickok's"
"game, with the Jack of diamonds as the fifth card. The Coen Brothers' film ""The Ballad of Buster Scruggs"" features the hand in its first segment, where the character Buster Scruggs takes someone's place at a poker table who was dealt this hand before leaving, and subsequently refuses to play it. The hand is mentioned in the title track from Motörhead's ""Ace of Spades"". Dead man's hand The dead man's hand is a nickname for a particular poker hand, popularly a two-pair of black aces and black eights, although definitions of the hand have varied through the years. Such a"
"rank, the higher suit beats the lower suit. That is, a 5 beats a 5. Pair: A pair of equally ranked cards. Between pairs of the same rank, the pair with the higher suit wins. That is, a 7-7 beats a 7-7. Three of a kind: Three equally ranked cards. This is a variation of game play and may be excluded or included as a valid card combination. Five-card hand: Any five-card combination following the poker hand rankings. From highest to lowest, valid poker hands include: The playable combinations are similar to poker hands, but there are vital differences. Unlike"
"Three suiter In the game of contract bridge a three suiter (or three-suited hand) denotes a hand containing at least four cards in three of the four suits. As a bridge hand contains thirteen cards, only two hand patterns can be classified as three suiters: 4-4-4-1 and 5-4-4-0. In natural bidding systems, strong three suiters are often difficult to describe, as — following the likely response of partner in the short suit — they do not allow for a high-level notrump rebid, nor for a reverse bid. Some systems therefore use dedicated opening bids to describe strong three-suited hands (e.g."
"is that of the player containing cards of the same suit totaling 31 points or the nearest below it. Three of a kind is a special hand ranking between 30 and 31 points. This is only applicable to the modern mode of playing the game, which is extended until all the players are satisfied with their hands. They may keep on trading until they all receive cards good enough to stand upon. The great objection to this variation of the game is that it is wearisome because the players have to wait until all the others are satisfied with their"
"[A K Q 10 9], [A K J 10 9], and [A Q J 10 9]; both other no-pair hands (i.e., in which either the A or the 9 are missing) are straights. Consequently, in some variants of the rules, straights are counted as busts. Marlboro once marketed a set of octahedral poker dice that included suits; each die had slightly different numberings, ranging from 7 up to ace. A similar set is currently manufactured by Koplow Games. In 1974 Aurora produced a set of 12 sided poker dice called ""Jimmy the Greek Odds Maker Poker Dice"" and in 2000"
"Although the set of three fruits was small enough to write a complete list of combinations, with large sets this becomes impractical. For example, a poker hand can be described as a 5-combination (""k"" = 5) of cards from a 52 card deck (""n"" = 52). The 5 cards of the hand are all distinct, and the order of cards in the hand does not matter. There are 2,598,960 such combinations, and the chance of drawing any one hand at random is 1 / 2,598,960. The number of ""k""-combinations from a given set ""S"" of ""n"" elements is often denoted"
"team will score the round in the scoring phase. If none of the four players has Pares, the whole round is skipped altogether. The lowest combination of matching cards for this round is a single pair ('pares'), followed by three-of-a-kind ('medias') and the highest Two-pair ('duples'). Unlike in poker, in mus, Two-pair is a better combination than three-of-a-kind. This accounts for the fact that it is usually played with eight kings and eight aces, which makes three-of-a-kind easier to attain. In case of a tie, the combination with the highest value wins. 'a Knight-Knight-Knight-5 hand would beat Ace-Ace-Ace-King'. If two"
"1 opening for all balanced hands (""boring hands""), has gained some popularity. Balanced hand In the game of contract bridge, a balanced hand (or balanced distribution) denotes a hand of thirteen cards which contains no singleton or void and at most one . Three hand patterns are classified as truly balanced: 4-3-3-3, 4-4-3-2 and 5-3-3-2. The hand patterns 5-4-2-2 (an example of a two-suiter) and 6-3-2-2 (a single-suiter) are generally referred to as ""semi-balanced"". In natural bidding systems, balanced hands within specified high card point (HCP) ranges are generally opened with a notrump bid, or rebid in notrump. In the"
"Pai gow poker Pai gow poker (also called double-hand poker) is a version of pai gow that is played with playing cards, instead of traditional pai gow's Chinese dominoes. The game of pai gow poker was created in 1985 in the United States by Sam Torosian, owner of the Bell Card Club. The game is played with a standard 52-card deck, plus a single joker. It is played on a table set for six players, plus the dealer. Each player attempts to defeat the banker (who may be the casino dealer, one of the other players at the table, or"
"three players from a table with one hand in live poker play is sometimes referred to as a hat-trick and is incredibly rare. It is a much more frequent occurrence in online poker games, given the faster and greater number of hands played in online tournaments and the continuing presence of multiple ""all-in"" players during the early stages of tournament play as players look to build large chip stacks quickly and early. Checking and raising an opponent three times, as well as winning the European Poker Tour (EPT), World Series of Poker (WSOP), and World Poker Tour (WPT) in the"
"Three of Wands Three of Wands or Three of Batons is a playing card of the suit of wands. In tarot, it is a Minor Arcana card. Tarot cards are used throughout much of Europe to play Tarot card games. In English-speaking countries, where the games are largely unknown, Tarot cards came to be utilized primarily for divinatory purposes. A calm onlooker facing towards the sea. There's a possibility that he is a merchant or looking forward to a journey. The three represents creation - looking forward to something with optimism - a mission. This card symbolizes enterprise, trade, or"
"Balanced hand In the game of contract bridge, a balanced hand (or balanced distribution) denotes a hand of thirteen cards which contains no singleton or void and at most one . Three hand patterns are classified as truly balanced: 4-3-3-3, 4-4-3-2 and 5-3-3-2. The hand patterns 5-4-2-2 (an example of a two-suiter) and 6-3-2-2 (a single-suiter) are generally referred to as ""semi-balanced"". In natural bidding systems, balanced hands within specified high card point (HCP) ranges are generally opened with a notrump bid, or rebid in notrump. In the Netherlands, a bidding system called ""Saaie klaver"" (""""Boring club"""") that reserves the"
"Dead man's hand in popular culture The dead man's hand, a legendary ""cursed"" poker hand usually depicted as consisting of the ace of spades, ace of clubs, eight of spades and eight of clubs with an undefined fifth card, has appeared or been referenced in numerous works of popular culture. In the novel ""Along Came a Spider"" by James Patterson, Jezzie Flannigan tells the story of how her father won his gun with a hand of aces and eights – she also uses ""Aces&Eights"" as her computer password. ""Dead Man's Hand"" is the name of the seventh book of the"
"patentable. Pai gow poker Pai gow poker (also called double-hand poker) is a version of pai gow that is played with playing cards, instead of traditional pai gow's Chinese dominoes. The game of pai gow poker was created in 1985 in the United States by Sam Torosian, owner of the Bell Card Club. The game is played with a standard 52-card deck, plus a single joker. It is played on a table set for six players, plus the dealer. Each player attempts to defeat the banker (who may be the casino dealer, one of the other players at the table,"
"between the two no matter which of the two players asked for showdown. In another variation, where the suits hold ranks, the player with the higher suit wins the pot. The categories are ranked as follows: Three of the same cards. Three aces are the highest and three twos are the lowest trio. This hand is sometimes called a ""trail"" and a straight called a ""sequence"" or ""round"", but in some areas the term for a straight is ""trail"". Three consecutive cards of the same suit. The order of ranking from highest (defined by highest card in the sequence) to"
"of ""Q"" 'K' – The King 'Tip', 'spear'; or 'pointy': or , respectively – the ace, named for the shape of ""A"" 'King', 'ruler': – the joker, named for its dominant position in the game 'One pair': – two cards of the same rank 'Chain': or – five or more consecutively numbered cards 'Pairs chain': or – three or more consecutive pairs 'Trio with single card': – trio, with an individual card as kicker 'Trio with pair': or – trio, with a pair as kicker 'Airplane': or – two or more consecutive trios 'Airplane with small wings': – two or"
"Three-player chess Three-player chess (also known as Three-handed, Three-man, or Three-way chess) is a family of chess variants specially designed for three players. Many variations of three-player chess have been devised. They usually use a non-standard board, for example, a hexagonal or three-sided board that connects the center in a special way. The three armies are differentiated usually by color. Three-player chess variants (as well as other three-player games) are the hardest to design fairly, since the imbalance created when two players gang up against one is usually too great for the defending player to withstand. Some versions attempt to"
"means ""using at least one wild card"". Notes: --At least 1 Wild ==> 13,915,044 (43%) --exactly 1 Wild ==> 10,395,840 (32%) Notice that certain hands (2 pair, 3 pair, full belly) will be natural-only hands, because wild cards can make better hands. (For example, two pair using a wild card is no longer two pair, but three of a kind.) This effect boosts the probabilities of some high-scoring hands, such as straights, at the expense of lower-scoring hands. Dragon Poker Dragon Poker is a fictional card game from the ""MythAdventures"" series by Robert Asprin, featured primarily in the book ""Little"
"and declare his hand. The player with the highest hand takes the pot. Cards are formed into pairs where the pips on each pair are summed, and only the units digit considered (a pip total of 23 becomes 3, 19 becomes 9). The highest pair possible is therefore a 9 (or 'kiu'). Pairs are compared such that the higher pair is compared first, and then the second pair. There are three special hands ranking above a pair of nines, from highest: A fourth special hand ranks below qiu-qiu, but above all other non-special hands: An exception to the rule of"
"Nut hand In poker, the nut hand is the strongest possible hand in a given situation. The second-nut hand or third-nut hand (and so on) may refer to the second and third best possible hands. The term applies mostly to community card poker games where the individual holding the strongest possible hand, with the given board of community cards, is capable of knowing that they have the nut hand. In Texas hold 'em, if the board is 5♠ 6♠ A♣ 9♠ 5♥, a player holding 7♠ 8♠ has the nut hand because those hole cards complete a 9-high straight flush"
"of spades, which cannot be beaten by any other possible combination of hole cards and community cards. On the same board, the hand 5♣ 5♦ would be the second-nut hand, four of a kind fives; the third-nut hand would be any pair of the remaining three aces, making a full house, aces full of fives. It is important to note that the ""actual"" nut hand may not be the same as the ""absolute"" nut hand; for example, if the board is 7♥ 2♣ K♠ K♥ 3♦ a player with K♣ K♦ has the absolute nut hand. However, any player with"
"Each player then has to divide their cards into three poker hands (known as ""setting""): two containing five cards each (known as ""the middle"" and ""the back""), and one containing three cards (""the front""); ""the back"" must be the highest-ranking hand, and ""the front"", the lowest-ranking hand (note that straights and flushes do not count in the three-card hand). The ""back hand"" is placed face down on the table in front of the player, then the ""middle hand"" is placed face down in front of the back hand, and the front hand is placed face down in front of the"
"for Mixed One Suit, due to the increased difficulty. The hand only consist 2,3,4,6 or 8 of the bamboo suit(索子) plus the Green Dragon as a pair or triplet.(Note: As for why it is called Pure Green Suit is that in the early days, all the above tile carvings are painted green.) The 'Three Lesser Scholars'(小三元""xiǎo-sān-yuán"") scores three points (one for the eye pair, and two for the pong/kong of the other two Dragon tiles). Example 1: Example 2: Example 3: A 'Four Lesser Blessings'(小四喜""xiǎo-sì-xǐ"") score three or four points (two for the hand itself, plus the bonus points for"
"there is an ""open pair"" (that is, at least one player's upcards make a pair). Some casinos (typically in California) use the smaller limit on the first three rounds rather than just the first two. It is a common convention in stud poker to name the betting rounds after the number of cards each player holds when that betting round begins. So the bet that occurs when each player has three cards is called ""third card"" or ""third street"", while the bet that occurs when each player has five cards is ""fifth street"". The final round, regardless of the number"
"hole cards, or ""starting hand"". There are 1326 distinct possible combinations of two hole cards from a standard 52-card deck in hold 'em, but since suits have no relative value in this poker variant, many of these hands are identical in value before the flop. For example, and are identical in value, because each is a hand consisting of an ace and a jack of the same suit. Therefore, there are 169 non-equivalent starting hands in hold 'em, which is the sum total of : 13 pocket pairs, 13 × 12 / 2 = 78 suited hands and 78 unsuited"
"a Full House (correctly reflecting its difficulty level) and a Flush is more valuable than Four Of A Kind (incorrectly reflecting its identical probability to that of a Straight). The poker dice hand rankings and the corresponding probabilities of rolling that hand are as follows (not sorted by probability but from highest to lowest ranking): Busts are much lower probability than in card poker, because there are only 6 values instead of 13, making pairs and straights much more likely than with cards. In poker dice there are in fact only four possible bust hands: [A K Q J 9],"
"litigation was based on invalid patent claims; PGIC settled for $20 million. Further, Prime Table Games filed suit against Shuffle Master in 2008 alleging in part that Shuffle Master had undisclosed knowledge that the PGIC claims were invalid prior to the 1999 purchase; it was later settled for over $2 million. Three Card Poker is played as heads-up between the player's hand and the dealer's hand. After all ante wagers are placed, three cards are dealt to each player and the dealer. Players have a choice to either fold or continue in the game by placing a ""play"" wager equal"
"by two or more persons with one complete pack of one hundred and twenty cards. There are four copies of each card. The three suits in the deck are: The three extra cards that act as wild cards: In the Qing version of the game the following triplets are called ""ngán"" (eyes) which are descended from Ming special combos: A winning hand must contain at least one of the above combinations called ""eyes"" and the remaining cards must be arranged in one or more combinations called ""pát tsz"" (boys), a sequence of three or more cards of the same suit,"