Illustration of poker
- 1 five of a kind
- 2 royal flush
- 3 straight flush
- 4 four of a kind
- 5 full house
- 6 flush
- 7 straight
- 8 three of a kind
- 9 two pair
- 10 one pair
: any of several card games in which a player bets that the value of his or her hand is greater than that of the hands held by others, in which each subsequent player must either equal or raise the bet or drop out, and in which the player holding the highest hand at the end of the betting wins the pot
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Taylor Ardrey, USA TODAY, 3 Mar. 2025
When The New Yorker was just a few months old, Ross almost even lost it entirely one night in a drunken poker game at the home of Pulitzer Prize winner and Round Table regular Herbert Bayard Swope.
—Christopher B. Daly, The Conversation, 11 Feb. 2025
Eight species and varieties of red hot poker are available at nurseries supplied by smgrowers.com.
—Joshua Siskin, Orange County Register, 6 Feb. 2025
In 2020, Just and her daughter Juliette launched the Poker Power platform to teach women and girls how to play the game, and how to use the lessons from poker to succeed professionally.
—Eric Rosenbaum, CNBC, 24 Feb. 2025
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The couple first sparked dating rumors in 2023 and were most recently photographed together at a Cartier pre-Oscars poker event.
—Taylor Ardrey, USA TODAY, 3 Mar. 2025
When The New Yorker was just a few months old, Ross almost even lost it entirely one night in a drunken poker game at the home of Pulitzer Prize winner and Round Table regular Herbert Bayard Swope.
—Christopher B. Daly, The Conversation, 11 Feb. 2025
Eight species and varieties of red hot poker are available at nurseries supplied by smgrowers.com.
—Joshua Siskin, Orange County Register, 6 Feb. 2025
In 2020, Just and her daughter Juliette launched the Poker Power platform to teach women and girls how to play the game, and how to use the lessons from poker to succeed professionally.
—Eric Rosenbaum, CNBC, 24 Feb. 2025
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“Poker.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/poker. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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