Backgammon vs Poker - What's the difference?
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A board game for two players in which each has 15 stones which move between 24 triangular points according to the roll of a pair of dice; the object is to move all of one's pieces around, and bear them off the board.
A victory in the game when the loser has not borne off a stone, and still has one or more stones in the winner's inner home row or on the bar.
To win at a backgammon game with the opponent having one or more pieces in the winner’s inner home row or on the bar.
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A metal rod, generally of wrought iron, for adjusting the burning logs or coals in a fire; a firestick.
One who pokes.
A kind of duck, the pochard.
Any of various card games in which, following each of one or more rounds of dealing or revealing the cards, the players in sequence make tactical bets or drop out, the bets forming a pool to be taken either by the sole remaining player or, after all rounds and bets have been completed, by those remaining players who hold a superior hand according to a standard ranking of hand values for the game.
(poker) All the four cards of the same rank.
(US, colloquial) Any imagined frightful object, especially one supposed to haunt the darkness; a bugbear.
(Webster 1913)
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