http://www.freeflashpoker.net Free Poker Flash Games en-us Sun, 05 Sep 10 15:02:07 -0700 Sun, 05 Sep 10 15:02:07 -0700 http://www.freeflashpoker.net/rss.php AgaresWriter 2.1 http://www.freeflashpoker.net/article-4-What-is-Poker.html Poker is a family of card games that share betting rules and usually (but not always) hand rankings. Poker games differ in how the cards are dealt, how hands may be formed, whether the high or low hand wins the pot in a showdown (in some games, the pot is split between the high and low hands), limits on bets and how many rounds of betting are allowed. In most modern poker games, the first round of betting begins with some form of forced bet. The action then proceeds to the left. Each player in ]]> September 17th, 2009 11:21 AM http://www.freeflashpoker.net/article-3-History-of-Poker.html The history is a matter of debate. One of the earliest known games to incorporate betting, hand rankings, and bluffing was the 15th century German game Pochspiel. Poker closely resembles the Persian game of As Nas, though there is no specific description of nas prior to 1890.^[2] In the 1937 edition of Foster's Complete Hoyle ]]> September 17th, 2009 11:20 AM http://www.freeflashpoker.net/article-2-Poker-Gameplay.html 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 ]]> September 17th, 2009 11:18 AM http://www.freeflashpoker.net/article-1-Variations-of-Poker-Game.html Poker has many variations, all following a similar pattern of play and generally using the same hand ranking hierarchy. There are three main families of variants, largely grouped by the protocol of card-dealing and betting:

Straight

A complete hand is dealt to each player, and players bet in one round, with raising and re-raising allowed. This is the oldest poker family; the root of the game as currently played was a game known as Primero, which evolved into the game