poker
396
3.0
- noun
- /ˈpoʊkər/
:
póquer
- Last night, we gathered around the table to play poker until dawn.
- play poker
- a poker game
- a poker face
Poker players win at poker when they pay attention to the tells.
- Poker players win at poker when they pay attention to the tells.
- That could be sports, it could be poker, it could be all of those things.
- No, but I'm sure the Earl of Sandwich was playing poker with his homie.
- So my husband over there was playing virtual poker with his friends.
- I mean, not to romanticize this thing too much, but poker is also game of personalities.
- So most of poke, not most, but a lot of poker is bluffing.
- What role do you think luck plays in poker and in life?
- What is this secret ace in the hole, as we say, you know in poker terms an advantage.
- Norby Norby Walters, party house playing poker and Andy.
- Like many rounds of poker sake.
Examples
-
Johnno settled back to play poker with some of the road crew.
Fiction book (1990) -
- Are you playing poker right now?
-
I love playing poker, so I play poker with friends.
-
Poker players win at poker when they pay attention to the tells.
-
Super fun evening playing poker with my friends.
-
Jack is involved in a poker game at one end of the room.
Fiction book (1990) -
The lights are on in the kitchen, where the cops are playing poker and watching TV.
Fiction book (1992) -
So my husband over there was playing virtual poker with his friends.
-
The best possible hand you can get in poker is five aces.
-
We played a lot of poker and blackjack in Vietnam.
Synonyms
53
2.7
A card game where players bet on having the best cards
43
1.1
A game played with playing cards, for example poker, that often needs skill or luck
5
1.0
Games you play with a set of playing cards
1
3.4
A game where people bet money and can win or lose
1
4.2
A type of poker where players discard some cards and get new ones to improve their hand
1
5.8
A poker game where each player gets five face down cards and cannot take any new ones
Compounds
1
4.2
A type of poker where players discard some cards and get new ones to improve their hand
- Jargon
1
5.8
A poker game where each player gets five face down cards and cannot take any new ones
- Jargon
1
6.3
A poker game where players get some cards face down and some face up, with betting after each card
- Specialized
A plant with tough heart-shaped leaves at the base and tall stalks of clustered greenish-white flowers
- Specialized
A long-lived plant with heart-shaped leaves at the base and pale greenish flowers on tall stalks from western North America
- Specialized
A small thin fish with bony plates that lives in deep northern Pacific waters
How Strategic
Surface Forms
Etymology
Poker for the card game most likely comes from an old French game called poque, which involved betting and bluffing. That's why the name fits the modern game where players bet on their hands and try to win the pot.