The Science behind poker
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Walk into any casino, or indeed log onto an online casino website, and you’ll be met with an array of games that all have one thing in common; literally, anyone can win thanks to chance. Now click here to take your chances at Mega Reel, and see if you can win one of their colossal jackpot prizes. Pick a color in Roulette, and you’ve got just over a 49% chance of winning, play a hand of blackjack, and you’re odds go even further down, or stick a coin in a slot machine and enjoy odds sometimes in the hundreds of thousands, or even millions, for the bigger jackpots. There is one black sheep in the casino. However, that takes more than a visit from lady luck to win, which is poker. Poker has a long history, starting as a simple card game played throughout the Middle East, then Europe, before being brought to the US and turned into the game we know today in the Southern US, notably in and around the Mississippi river. The premise of the game is similar to other casino card games. Players need to build a winning hand, using a combination of cards that is…