Poker is played with a regular deck of 52 cards without Jokers. It is pretty much a game of chance. Of course there are professionals in this game, but it will hardly help them to get better cards. You have to read the table with the minimum and maximum bets before you play Poker. You can find this table next to the dealer. Each player makes at least the minimum bet and receives 5 cards face down. After this first deal the first round of betting starts. You must at least call to stay into the game. Then you have to decide which cards you want to keep and which to discard. All the cards can be kept and all the cards can be thrown away. The cards which were thrown away will be replaced with the same number of cards. Then there is the last deal, which is followed by the betting round. After everybody on the table is done with the betting the highest ranked hand wins and gets whatever is in the pot in the middle. First Nations Poker Invention.