Poker game review
Being a quite challenging game, poker is one of the most favorite games for lots of players. It originated in 15th century. Poker is considered to be a game of skill as there many rules and basic strategies to know in order to be successful at this game. As nowadays it is played in real and online casinos, not so long ago they considered to make a mobile casino version to give an opportunity to play even while travelling.
The main idea of the game is to get the highest possible ranking hand to be the winner. Each player is given 5 cards which may create such poker combinations (listed from the highest to the lowest):
- Royal Flush
- Straight Flush
- Four of a kind
- Full house
- Flush
- Straight
- Three of a kind
- Two pairs
- One pair
The Aces in poker have the highest value and the two - the lowest.
Poker players can place bets one by one in a special pot. The most important thing is that players are not allowed to place lower bet than the one made by previous player. After the betting circle only one player can be the winner and he/she can make others to show their cards. The game is kind of psychological and the most difficult in the game is to keep the "poker face" and learn to "read" the other players.
Famous poker players
Although, poker is a complicated game of skill, there are many so called famous poker stars that succeeded and became the millionaire with the help of this game. Lets us consider the most famous poker players winning big. There are 5 top money winners that ranked in the list by overall winnings:
- Phil Ivey (Las Vegas, United States) with total winnings amounted to $13,531,757;
- Daniel Negreanu, a famous poker player, also known as "Kid Poker" (Las Vegas, United States) with total winnings amounted to $12,668,866;
- Jamie Gold, professional poker player, (Malibu, United States) with total winnings amounted to $12,223,798;
- Peter Eastgate (Odense, Denmark) with total winnings amounted to $11,308,359;
- Scotty Nguyen (Las Vegas, United States) with total winnings amounted to $10,828,112.