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When one
speaks of poker these days, it's usually a version known
as Texas Holdem, often played in so-called
"tournaments."
In Texas
Holdem, each player receives two cards face-down (the
"hole" cards), then the next five cards are all common
cards dealt face-up, meaning any player can use any of
the latter to make a hand.
Distribution of the common cards goes by colorful names
such as the flop, the turn and the river.
Tournament
play differs from the typical Friday night poker game or
casino game in that every player buys a seat at a table
for a fixed price and receives a predetermined amount of
chips, i.e., the chips in play typically are just a
means of keeping score. As players lose all their chips,
they drop out of the tournament. The last player with
all the chips wins a prize |
