# poker (game)

a game where people use cards and money to make sets, and the set with the greatest value determines the outcome

- Computed level: L17 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: review  ·  Domain: game.playful  ·  Arena: people.social

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [card](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-card.paper), [game](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-game.playful), [money](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-money.economic), [sets](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-sets.grouped), [people](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-people.social), [use](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-use.application), [value](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-value.worth), [great](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-great.size), [results](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-results.outcome), [make](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-make.verb), [outcome](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-outcome.result)

**Through:** 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
- The World Series of Poker 2003 drew 839 players, with Chris Moneymaker winning $2.5 million. *(event)*
- In a home game in Omaha, four players used a $5 buy-in to build pots across ten rounds. *(everyday life)*
- PokerStars hosted 50,000 concurrent players on its online platform during the 2019 Spring Championship. *(computing)*

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*Canonical: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-poker.game*  
*Structured data: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-poker.game.json*  
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