Poker is a game of skill and strategy in which the cards are dealt to players in groups of two to four. This classic card game is played with a group of people sitting around a round or oval table. There is no real rulebook that says exactly when Poker was invented, but most people believe that it originated from a combination of several earlier card games. Jonathan H. Green is the person who is generally credited with attaching the name “Poker” to an older game. He described the game as being played by two to four players with a deck of twenty cards and using only Aces.

In poker, each player starts by placing an ante bet (the amount of which is different for each game), and then betting into the pot in the center. The player with the best hand wins the pot. The players in poker will begin betting in a clockwise direction, and the player with the highest five-card hand is declared the winner.

Poker was first played in the Americas, but only in the 1970s did the game become more organized. This led to the creation of the World Series of Poker, which declared poker champions. In recent years, poker has gained popularity thanks to the Internet. While the game is not as trendy as it once was, it attracts thousands of players around the world. All you need to get started playing poker is a table and some chairs.