A 52-card deck without Jokers is used in the game of Poker. To play the game of Poker you will need some luck. There are a lot of skilled and experienced poker players, but when it concerns the deal of the cards there is nothing they can do. 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. After you make the first minimum bet, five cards are dealt at first, face down, to each player. After the first deal players have to make bets. To stay into the game you have to make a bet equal to the highest bet made by one of the players. Afterwards you have to decide which cards you want to keep and which ones you want to throw away. All the cards can be kept and all the cards can be thrown away. You will get the same number of cards in place of discarded ones. Then the second deal and the betting round follow. 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. Multi-Hand Poker Game Strategy.