Things You'll Need:
- Playing cards
- Poker chips
- Poker table or tabletop
- Chairs
- One coin per player
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Step 1
Organize a night of poker with your friends. With the two-card poker game, you need a minimum of five players to play. A maximum of 10 players can play. The ideal number of players is between six and eight players for two-card poker.
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Step 2
Deal two cards face down to each player and give each player a coin. Allow each player to look at his own playing cards.
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Step 3
Direct each player to declare if she is in the hand or out of the hand. To do this, have each player place her hand on the table covering her coin. If she places the coin face up, she is in the hand. If she places it face down, she is out of the hand. Have all players reveal their coins once each player has placed her hand-covered coin on the table. Any players that decided their hand was not good enough to be in the hand and placed their coins face down now discard their cards into a discard pile in the center of the table and are no longer part of the hand.
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Step 4
Start a wagering round for each player that has declared she is in the hand.
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Step 5
Determine the winner of the hand. Pairs are ranked highest. Two Aces are the highest pair. Other pairs ranking in descending order, based on traditional card rankings, down to the two twos, which are the lowest pair. If no player has a pair, then the player with the highest-ranking card wins the hand. If there is a tie, the second-highest ranking cards are compared. If there is still a tie, the pot is split among the tied players. There are no straights or flushes in two-card poker.
