Illustration of poker
- 1 five of a kind
- 2 royal flush
- 3 straight flush
- 4 four of a kind
- 5 full house
- 6 flush
- 7 straight
- 8 three of a kind
- 9 two pair
- 10 one pair
: any of several card games in which a player bets that the value of their own hand is greater than that of the hands held by others, in which each subsequent player must either equal or raise the bet or drop out, and in which the player holding the highest hand at the end of the betting wins the pot
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Sawdah Bhaimiya, CNBC, 15 Nov. 2025
The beauty founder posted several snaps of herself posing at the bash, along with clips of her and Karanikolaou playing poker at the bash.
—Escher Walcott, PEOPLE, 10 Nov. 2025
Also mentioned during the ceremony were Broder’s famous cigar hangouts and poker nights with his friends in the business.
—Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 9 Nov. 2025
The mention of plea negotiations came when Judge Ramon Reyes, who is overseeing the poker case, asked Jones about consenting to stopping the 70-day speedy trial clock — a common occurrence in complex prosecutions.
—John Annese, Mercury News, 7 Nov. 2025
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However, long before becoming a millionaire, Malone recalled growing up on a council estate in Kent in the United Kingdom, with a mother who worked in the beauty industry and a father who was an artist as well as a gambler and poker player.
—Sawdah Bhaimiya, CNBC, 15 Nov. 2025
The beauty founder posted several snaps of herself posing at the bash, along with clips of her and Karanikolaou playing poker at the bash.
—Escher Walcott, PEOPLE, 10 Nov. 2025
Also mentioned during the ceremony were Broder’s famous cigar hangouts and poker nights with his friends in the business.
—Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 9 Nov. 2025
The mention of plea negotiations came when Judge Ramon Reyes, who is overseeing the poker case, asked Jones about consenting to stopping the 70-day speedy trial clock — a common occurrence in complex prosecutions.
—John Annese, Mercury News, 7 Nov. 2025
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“Poker.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/poker. Accessed 16 Nov. 2025.
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