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straight poker

straight poker

1 5.8
A poker game where each player gets five face down cards and cannot take any new ones
  • noun
  • /streɪt ˈpoʊkər/
  • Jargon
translation icon : póker tradicional
  • I prefer straight poker because it requires skill and strategy without any drawing of extra cards.

Examples

  • The game is straight poker $100 minimum, table stakes.

    The Sting (1973)

  • Dollar ante, straight poker, nothing wild, anything opens, $100 limit.

    Run (1991)

  • We play straight poker.

    Bunraku (2010)

  • $100 minimum, straight poker.

    The Sting (1973)

  • In our weekly game night, we always play straight poker with five cards each.

  • The dealer explained the rules of straight poker before we placed our bets.

Synonyms

poker
vsstraight poker
396 3.0

A card game where players bet on who has the best hand

is a specific variant dealt five cards face down with no drawing allowed

Surface Forms

straight poker singular
straight pokers plural

Morphology

straight + poker

The compound 'straight poker' transparently combines the poker term 'straight' (a sequence of five consecutive cards) with 'poker', signalling a variant of the poker game involving straights or a five-card, no-draw format. This follows a common noun-noun compounding pattern for game variants and would be understandable to a B1 learner who knows both constituent words and the basic poker sense.

Etymology

Straight poker may come from old five-card games where players were dealt five cards and kept them 'straight', meaning they could not 'draw' new cards. So straight here means 'not changing', and the name shows the game of poker is played without drawing extra cards.