Draw poker
Draw poker is a family of poker games in which players hold private cards and may discard and replace some of them to improve their hands.
Five-card draw: A draw-poker game in which each player receives five private cards and can replace cards in a draw round. Its single draw round is the best-known form of draw poker.
Poker: A family of card games in which players wager on the strength of concealed or partly shared hands. Draw poker is one branch of this broader game family.
Community card poker: Poker in which shared community cards combine with each player's private cards to form hands. Unlike draw poker, its main hand-building step uses shared cards rather than replacements.
Five-card draw poker strategy: Decision-making in five-card draw concerning betting, discards, opponent reads, and hand probabilities. It applies draw poker's exchange mechanic to concrete strategic choices.
Draw round: A phase in a poker hand when eligible players discard cards and receive replacements. This is the defining exchange that distinguishes draw poker from community-card games.
Standard 52-card deck: A card deck containing four suits of thirteen ranks, without jokers. Most draw-poker games use this deck to deal and replace private cards.
Stud poker: Poker in which players receive individual face-up and face-down cards across multiple deals, without community cards. Stud develops hands through successive deals, not a discard-and-replace round.
Jacks or Better: A five-card draw variant in which opening bets require at least a pair of jacks. Its opening-hand restriction changes which hands can enter the first betting round.
Poker betting structure: The rules governing when players bet, how much they can wager, and how betting rounds proceed. Draw poker's betting rounds frame the decisions before and after the exchange.
Probability in poker: The use of probability to estimate poker hand frequencies, draw odds, and expected outcomes. It quantifies the chance that replacement cards complete a desired hand.