: poker in which each player is dealt two cards facedown and all players share five cards dealt faceup
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Unlike 'Texas Hold'em' or mahjong, this game doesn't need to be played with money to be fun.
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Fox News, 28 Aug. 2023
Go, the video game StarCraft II, and a type of poker known as Texas Hold'em.
—IEEE Spectrum, 30 Apr. 2021
Late Monday night, a computer program designed by two Carnegie Mellon University researchers beat four of the world's top no-limit Texas Hold'em poker players.
—Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 31 Jan. 2017
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Fox News, 28 Aug. 2023
Go, the video game StarCraft II, and a type of poker known as Texas Hold'em.
—IEEE Spectrum, 30 Apr. 2021
Late Monday night, a computer program designed by two Carnegie Mellon University researchers beat four of the world's top no-limit Texas Hold'em poker players.
—Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 31 Jan. 2017
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“Texas Hold'em.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Texas%20Hold%27em. Accessed 26 Mar. 2026.
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