If you have played poker and are accustomed with all the ins and outs of the game, then you are, more than likely acquainted with poker hands. If you’re not here is your chance to pick up some necessary data. A poker hand is every time somebody has had 5 cards dealt in their hands. As with any standard card game, there is a certain ranking for poker hands. Understanding these rankings and becoming familiar with them is significant if you are planning on having any greatness in the poker arena. Noted below are some illustrations of poker hand rankings.

HIGH CARD - The high card is arranged by the value of the highest card. If your poker hand

Was seven, six, five, then the seven would be the highest card. If , however , a couple of the cards had the equivalent value, then it’s the next highest card.

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The Mapes Hotel in Reno, Nevada met its demise on Superbowl Sunday of 2000 when 75 pounds of explosives packed inside the structure’s support columns brought it to the ground. The controlled demolition came despite years of effort by a number of groups within the community to preserve the building with lawsuits, redevelopment proposals, and grass roots lobbying efforts. The National Turst for Historic Preservation even took up the cause, challenging the destruction in a lawsuit that eventually reached the Nevada Supreme Court.

While the efficacy and justification of demolishing the Mapes is debatable, one thing that is not is the glorious history of the hotel. It was built in 1947, and signaled the start of the modern era of casino gambling. Despite the notoriety of Bugsy Siegel and the Flamingo in Las Vegas, it was the Mapes that became the first building in the nation to have a hotel, casino and live entertainment under one roof. It also became the hotel of choice for celebrities staying in Northern Nevada. Clark Gable and Marilyn Monroe stayed at The Mapes during the filming of ‘The Misfits’. Joseph McCarthy, America’s famed anti-Communist crusader, admitted to a reporter over cocktails in the Mapes Lounge that he really didn’t have a list of Communists in the US despite his frequent and vitriolic insistence to the contrary.

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