Texas Hold’em poker is a popular player-versus-player game played with a standard 52-card deck, which contains no trump suits. Typically, 2 to 6 players participate in each round. In this game, each player receives five private cards, and the objective is to form the best possible hand by combining these with community cards to determine the winner.
Card rankings from highest to lowest are as follows: Big King (K), Little King (k), Jack (J), 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, and Ace (A).
The hand categories, ordered from strongest to weakest, include:
– Single (High Card)
– Pair
– Two Pair
– Three of a Kind
– Straight
– Connected Pair (a hand where cards form a sequence or are connected)
– Three Cards in a Row (Three of a Kind)
(Note: The original text’s terminology may vary; the typical hand ranks are standard.)