When one speaks of poker these days, it's usually a version known as Texas Hold 'em, often played in so-called "tournaments."

In Texas Hold 'em, 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.

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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

Source: Indy Star