Poker evaluate their hands. The player with the best hand according to the poker variant being played wins the pot. A poker hand comprises five cards; in variants where a player has more than five cards available to them, only the best five-card combination counts. Poker variations are played where a "high hand" or a "low hand" may be the best desired hand. In other words, when playing a poker variant with "low poker" the best hand is one that contains the lowest cards (and it can get further complicated by including or not including flushes and straights etc. from "high
Cheating in poker Cheating in poker Cheating in poker is any behavior outside the rules that is intended to give an unfair advantage to one or more players. Cheating can be done many ways, including collusion, sleight-of-hand (such as bottom dealing or stacking the deck), or the use of physical objects such as marked cards or holdout devices. Cheating occurs in both friendly games and casinos. Cheats may operate alone, or may operate in teams or small groups. Following is a list of terms used to categorize specific card cheats: The easiest and most common types of cheating require no skill of manipulation,