For example, with basic poker, a pair of deuces can beat a single face card. In this version, normal poker hand ranks apply, but only winning hands of a pair of Jacks, or better count. One of the most common of these is called Jacks or Better. Many variants of the original game exist. Poker is usually played with a full deck, each player receiving a hand of five cards. With the advent of internet technology, the game has now gone digital and video poker is currently one of the most popular online games played online around the world. The history of the game is unclear, but it probably developed in Europe or Persia whose traveling merchants were responsible for bringing the game to the southern United States. A more modern scenario might be a group of cigar smoking guys sitting around the table in someone's apartment, the table piled high with colored chips competing for space with bottles of Beck's or Budweiser.
Most prominent of these is the picture of pioneer cowboys sitting in a smoky town saloon, shot glasses of gut-rot whisky at their elbows. Poker is a card game that conjures up many images.
