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Definition of Straight poker

1. Noun. Poker in which each player gets 5 cards face down and bets are made without drawing any further cards.

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Literary usage of Straight poker

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1. Foster's Complete Hoyle: An Encyclopedia of All the Indoor Games Played at by Robert Frederick Foster (1897)
"straight poker or Bluff is played with a full pack of fifty-two cards, ... Triplets are very strong at straight poker, and two pairs will win three out of ..."

2. Pen and Ink: Papers on Subjects of More Or Less Importance by Brander Matthews (1888)
"Long before the breaking out of the Rebellion it was evident that Draw Poker had come to stay and that thereafter straight poker, with its ill- named ..."

3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"straight poker, or Blu/, is played without drawing extn cards. It was the only variety of the game played, although 52 cards are now ..."

4. Appleton's New Practical Cyclopedia: A New Work of Reference Based Upon the edited by Marcus Benjamin, Arthur Elmore Bostwick, Gerald Van Casteel, George Jotham Hagar (1920)
"In straight poker no discard is made, and all the players must stake the ante. In whisky poker an extra hand is dealt, and the players strive to improve ..."

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