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Ace - The highest card in each suit. These are usually denoted by one single symbol on the card. Make sure you keep these, they can be very usefull.
Discard - This is when you throw away the cards from your starting hand that you don't want to keep. You are then given new cards ot hopefully make a better winning combination.
Flush - This is when all 5 cards in your hand are the same suit. For example, all of the cards are Hearts.
Fold - To give up on your hand and leave that round of the game.
Four of a Kind - This is when you have 4 cards in your hand that are the same face value. These could be 4 Two's, or 4 Jacks or 4 of any other card.
Full House - This is when you have 3 of a kind and another pair in your single hand.
Hold - This is when you want to keep some or all of the cards in your hand.
Jacks Or Better - This is a term that descirbes how a video poker game pays. If it pays "Jacks or Better", it means that you must have a pair of Jacks to win. A pair of 10's or less will not win. This is common for most video poker games.
Pair - This is 2 cards of the same face value. For example, a pair of 5's means that you have 2 cards in your hand that have the value of 5.
Royal Flush - This is the best hand that you can have. This is a straight starting with the Ace to the 10 in the same suit. As you can imagine, this is very difficult to get. The odds of getitng this hand are somewhere around 600,000 to 1. But, it can happen.
Straight - This is a hand of cards that is in numerical order. For example, if you had a hand that had a 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6, these cards are after each other and make a straight. The higher the highest card in the stragith is, the more the straight is worth.
Suit - This is the type of the card, and is either Hearts (red), Diamonds (red), Spades (black) or Clubs (black).
Three of a Kind - This is when you have 3 cards in your hand that are the same face value. For example, if you have 3 Kings, you have Three of a Kind.
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