Poker is a card game in which the objective is to make the best hand from a number of cards. The game can be played with multiple people. Players are dealt five cards and are permitted to discard up to three cards. The top card of the deck may be a wild card or an ace. Players must then reveal their hands in a showdown. The player with the best hand wins the pot. This is a very common game played by many people.

A player must have at least two distinct pairs of cards in order to win. In some games, the ace is treated as the lowest card, and a pair of aces is a low hand. If there are two pairs of the same value, the highest pair wins. High cards, which are used in high-value hands, break ties.

Poker is played with any number of players, but six or eight is ideal. The pot is the sum of the bets made by all players at the same time. The player with the best hand wins the pot if the other players call their bet. However, if there are two identical hands, the players split the pot.

A hand with five cards is known as a straight. It consists of the highest cards and the lowest cards. A flush is the opposite of a straight. A straight has five cards in the same suit.