{
  "id": "poker.game",
  "term": "poker",
  "sense": "game",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 17,
  "arena": "people.social",
  "domain": "game.playful",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a game where people use cards and money to make sets, and the set with the greatest value determines the outcome",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "card.paper",
      "game.playful",
      "money.economic",
      "sets.grouped",
      "people.social",
      "use.application",
      "value.worth",
      "great.size",
      "results.outcome",
      "make.verb",
      "outcome.result"
    ],
    "interaction": "cards are dealt, people put money into sets, and the set with the greatest value decides the outcome",
    "novel_properties": [
      "betting structure",
      "hand ranking hierarchy",
      "competitive bluffing"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The World Series of Poker 2003 drew 839 players, with Chris Moneymaker winning $2.5 million.",
      "domain": "event"
    },
    {
      "text": "In a home game in Omaha, four players used a $5 buy-in to build pots across ten rounds.",
      "domain": "everyday life"
    },
    {
      "text": "PokerStars hosted 50,000 concurrent players on its online platform during the 2019 Spring Championship.",
      "domain": "computing"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "game.playful",
      "type": "is-a",
      "note": "poker is a kind of game"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "poker",
    "pokers"
  ],
  "closed": false,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "factual",
      "note": "Added missing 'outcome.result' which is essential in the definition's causal chain; 'results.outcome' alone does not capture the final state after resolution. The definition implies resolution to a re"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-poker.game"
}