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 his or her 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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Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 9 Oct. 2025
Like a gambler in an old timey saloon, Costner dropped keys to that estate into the poker pot that was becoming Horizon’s financing.
—Peter Kiefer, HollywoodReporter, 8 Oct. 2025
Concerns erupted immediately after Sora videos were created last week featuring everything from James Bond playing poker with Altman to body cam footage of cartoon character Mario evading the police.
—Jaures Yip, CNBC, 7 Oct. 2025
Other actors stacked up projects like poker chips, supplementing TV work with movies, theatre gigs, or branding deals, feverishly hedging against the risks of a shrinking industry.
—Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2025
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Amongst them is a championship poker player, a former COVID crisis nurse, a single father, and a couple of avid concertgoers.
—Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 9 Oct. 2025
Like a gambler in an old timey saloon, Costner dropped keys to that estate into the poker pot that was becoming Horizon’s financing.
—Peter Kiefer, HollywoodReporter, 8 Oct. 2025
Concerns erupted immediately after Sora videos were created last week featuring everything from James Bond playing poker with Altman to body cam footage of cartoon character Mario evading the police.
—Jaures Yip, CNBC, 7 Oct. 2025
Other actors stacked up projects like poker chips, supplementing TV work with movies, theatre gigs, or branding deals, feverishly hedging against the risks of a shrinking industry.
—Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2025
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“Poker.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/poker. Accessed 14 Oct. 2025.
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