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A single hand of poker without wagering makes no sense at all.

There are a lot of variations of poker. Playing single hands of, for example, five card draw makes sense without wagering.



That's true, but it's not very fun. A series of hands in which you determine how heavily to invest allows strategy to control for randomness. A single-hand five-card-draw showdown is a single decision about which cards to replace, and is largely determined by the shuffle, and the single bit of strategy "how many cards did the people before me ask for".




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