Poker is a card game that takes skill and strategy to win at. Typically, players bet on their own hand of five cards, but can also bet on the other hands in play at the table. The best hand wins the pot of money that has been raised in a betting round. Sometimes a player will have to drop out of the round because their hand is not good enough to win.
A good way to write a scene about poker is to focus on the player’s reactions and interactions at the table. This is a great opportunity to create conflict between your characters. For example, you can describe how a character feels when they bluff and it doesn’t work out, or how a player reacts to seeing their opponent raise in the face of a weak hand.
Depending on the rules of your game, you may need to establish a fund, called a kitty, to pay for new decks of cards or food and drinks for the players. Generally, one low-denomination chip is taken from each pot in which there was more than one raise and placed into the kitty. When the game ends, any chips left in the kitty are split equally among the players still in the game.
You should always remember that poker is a long-game and you can’t go into and out of a hand too quickly. If you do this, people will see right through it.