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Community Cards
Also known as window cards or shared cards, these are cards dealt face up which are shared by all the players in certain variants of the poker games. Such variants are known as community card poker games. Depending on
the particular poker variant played, all players can use some or all of the community cards, together with some
or all of their hole cards, to build their best poker hands.
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Texas Hold'em and
Omaha Hold'em are two of the most commonly played community card poker games
worldwide. In the game of Hold'em, there are up to 5 community cards on the board.
The first three cards is known as the flop, the fourth card is called the turn and
the last card is known as the
river.
