In poker, a steal is a type of a bluff, a raise during the first betting round made with an inferior hand and meant to make other players fold superior hands because of shown strength.

Mike Caro coined the famous poker tells " Weak means Strong " and " Strong means Weak ", meaning that players will try to fool other players by acting the opposite way of the true strength of their poker hand.

* In a Doonesbury comic strip of March 3, 1971, poker players compare their hands, one says his has the winning power of Richard Nixon, one says he has the challenging strength of Edmund Muskie, the last simply says Harold Stassen.

For example, online poker room security employees can look at the hand history of the cards previously played by any player on the site, making patterns of behavior easier to detect than in a casino where colluding players can simply fold their hands without anyone ever knowing the strength of their holding.

His children report that he was a strong chess player but a bad poker player because he non-verbally revealed the strength of his hands.

Or would you rather deal a hand of show-down poker or play a game of gin rummy, or what ''??

For example, a poker hand can be described as a 5-combination ( k = 5 ) of cards from a 52 card deck ( n = 52 ).

* Lowball ( poker ), a variant of the card game poker, in which hand values are reversed so that the lowest-valued hand wins

* Out ( poker ), unseen card which is expected to win a hand, if drawn

The betting procedures vary among different poker games in such ways as betting limits and splitting the pot between a high hand and a low hand.

In standard poker, each player is betting that the hand he has will be the highest ranked.

Bluffing is a primary feature of poker, one that distinguishes it from other vying games and from other games that make use of poker hand rankings.

The player with the best hand according to the poker variant being played wins the pot.

A poker hand comprises five cards ; in variants where a player has more than five cards, the best five cards play.

; Draw poker: A complete hand is dealt to each player, face-down, and after betting, players are allowed to attempt to change their hand ( with the object of improving it ) by discarding unwanted cards and being dealt new ones.

; Community card poker ( also known as flop poker ): A variation of Stud, players are dealt an incomplete hand of face-down cards, and then a number of face-up community cards are dealt to the center of the table, each of which can be used by one or more of the players to make a 5-card hand.

Other games that use poker hand rankings may likewise be referred to as poker.

Video poker is a single-player video game that functions much like a slot machine ; most video poker machines play draw poker, where the player bets, a hand is dealt, and the player can discard and replace cards.

They stay at Luc's family home, surrounded by a beautiful vineyard where Kate learns about Luc's past and how he gambled away his vineyard birthright to his brother in a single hand of poker.

( Some games may have specific rules regarding how to fold: for example in stud poker one must turn one's upcards face down.

More often, people try to avoid giving out a tell, by maintaining a poker face regardless of how strong their hand is.

Orac was the world's first serious attempt at an AI poker player, and most poker professionals were surprised at how well it played.

The true story of how the game as it is played today came into being goes back to 1987 when a gambler named James Suttle learned the game from a down on his luck poker player while playing Texas Holdem at Binion's Horseshoe on Fremont Street in Downtown Las Vegas.

He spent his free time learning how to play poker and applied his winnings towards his further schooling.

Computer programs with this ability are said to have or be an autoplayer and are universally defined to be in the category of bots regardless of how well they play poker.

Tuan Le, a WPT Season 3 champion, claims that book showed him how to succeed on the poker circuit.

Greenstein taught former girlfriend Mimi Tran how to play poker in exchange for her teaching him how to speak Vietnamese.

" While nursing dreams of a career as a professional snooker player, the then 15-year-old Daniel learned how to play poker.

Sato recounts how during her Starfleet training, she broke a commander's arm after he caught her running poker games on weekends, and was thrown out.

Maddie went to live with Tom and Margo Hughes, and Henry moved to the Lakeview — although how he was able to afford to live there remains something of a mystery ; perhaps his poker games have been successful of late.

Barney's interests included bowling, playing pool, poker, tinkering around in Fred's garage and playing golf ( though there were episodes where Barney did not know how to play golf ).

Not all poker games offer bad beat jackpots, and those that do have specific requirements for how strong a losing hand must be to qualify for the jackpot.

His children also play poker, and Hachem said he believes it teaches them discipline and how to handle adversity.

* Five television actors make cameos as themselves, being taught how to play poker by Rusty:

When I would get away from town, as I often did, in some out-of-the-way place, I would save my money and make good resolutions ; but how soon I would forget them when I would strike town and see a faro game running, or a game of poker.

He has also taught several celebrities how to play poker, including Matthew Stevens, Barry Hearn, Phil " The Power " Taylor, Tom Cruise, Michael Greco and Helen Chamberlain ( who went on to place second in the 2005 Poker Million tournament.

In a poker game with more than one betting round, an out is any unseen card that, if drawn, will improve a player's hand to one that is likely to win.

Because of the mathematics involved, three card flushes are more likely than three card straights, while the reverse is true of five-card ( poker ) hands.

Strip poker most likely began as a prank among boys, and as late as the 1930s, the current co-ed version was called " mixed strip poker " in England to differentiate it from all-male, non-sexual variety.

Male gamblers were more likely to report problems with strategic forms of gambling ( blackjack or poker ), and female gamblers were more likely to report problems with nonstrategic forms, such as slots or bingo.

In community card poker, a player or hand is said to be counterfeited when a community card does not change the value of his hand, but makes it more likely that an opponent will beat it.