Poker Trivia

100+ Best Poker Trivia Questions & Answers

Mike Oberman

Updated: July 11th, 2023

Think you're a poker pro? Put your skills to the test with these poker trivia questions! From the World Series of Poker to famous hands, challenge your friends and see who comes out on top.

General Poker Trivia

Question: If you want to place more money on a bet in Poker, this is called what?

Answer: Raise

Question: The pile of discarded cards in Poker is known by what name?

Answer: Muck

Question: What US state lends its name to a 'hold 'em' variant of poker?

Answer: Texas

Question: What is the name for a card which can be used to represent any other card?

Answer: Wild

Question: What word means the range between a table's minimom and maximom bets?

Answer: Spread

Question: When you decide you are not going to continue betting with your hand, what is called?

Answer: Fold

Question: What is the name usually given to a pile of 20 poker chips?

Answer: Stack

Question: A four-flush is four cards all of the same what?

Answer: Suit

Question: Which of the following is not a variation of Poker?

Answer: Dallas

Question: What poker term means a card which can take on any value?

Answer: Wild

Question: Poker originated in which country?

Answer: United States

Question: What is the highest value card in Poker?

Answer: Ace

Question: In which century was Poker invented?

Answer: 19th

Question: How are the cards dealt in Poker?

Answer: Clockwise

Question: Complete the name of this famous Poker game. ______ Hold'em

Answer: Texas

Question: What hand is five cards in sequence, but not of the same suit?

Answer: Straight

Poker Basics Trivia

Question: A hand of 'quads' means how many cards of a kind?

Answer: 4

Question: What poker term means to lose all your chips?

Answer: Bust

Question: How many cards are dealt to each player at the start of Texas Hold 'Em poker?

Answer: 2

Question: What is the name of the bet which all players make before the hand begins?

Answer: Ante

Question: In a game of Countdown poker, each player starts with how many cards?

Answer: 5

Question: What is the first bet called in a poker game?

Answer: Ante

Question: What is the name of the marker used to indicate which player is dealing?

Answer: Buck

Question: What is another name for the opening bet, or ante?

Answer: Blind

Question: What is another name for the dealer token which is passed between players?

Answer: Buck

Question: Each player is dealt how many cards at the start of a Texas Hold 'Em poker game?

Answer: 2

Poker Variants Trivia

Question: The first World Series of Poker was held in which year?

Answer: 1970

Question: A form of poker is named after which large snake?

Answer: Anaconda

Question: Chinese poker, or Big Two, is usually played by how many people?

Answer: 4

Question: What poker term describes the amount of money a player has to wager?

Answer: Bankroll

Question: In how many cards are used during Royal Hold 'Em?

Answer: 20

Question: Stud poker is usually played with 5 or which other number of cards?

Answer: 7

Question: Two variants of poker known as high or low are named after which US city?

Answer: Chicago

Question: A popular form of Hold Em poker is named after which fruit?

Answer: Pineapple

Question: A form of Hold Em poker is named after which town in Nebraska?

Answer: Omaha

Question: What comes before 'Flush' for the best hand in poker?

Answer: Royal

Poker Hands & Ranks Trivia

Question: A full house is how many of a kind, plus a pair?

Answer: 3

Question: If your poker hand is 'ducks' you have a pair of which number?

Answer: 2

Question: If your poker hand is 'Bullets', you have a pair of which card?

Answer: Aces

Question: What word means a non-standard hand of five face cards?

Answer: Blaze

Question: A dead man's hand contains two black aces and two of which number card?

Answer: 8

Question: What is the lowest value card in a queen-high straight flush?

Answer: 8

Question: A flush is how many consecutive cards of any suit?

Answer: 5

Question: What is the lowest value card in a queen-high straight flush?

Answer: 8

Question: Which card can be high or low?

Answer: Ace

Question: A straight flush contains how many cards in sequence?

Answer: 5

Question: Quads is a term used to describe how many cards of the same rank?

Answer: Four

Question: If your poker hand is 'cowboys', you have two of which card?

Answer: Kings

Question: The very best hand in poker is which kind of flush?

Answer: Royal

Question: What poker hand ranks between a straight flush and a full house?

Answer: Four of a kind

Question: What kind of flush is the highest poker hand available?

Answer: Royal

Question: What is the name for the hand of five cards of the same suit, not necessarily in sequence?

Answer: Flush

Poker Terminology Trivia

Question: What word means to pretend you have a better hand than you actually have?

Answer: Bluff

Question: What is another name for a forced bet placed by a player?

Answer: Blind

Question: What is another name for the house, or the person distributing the chips?

Answer: Bank

Question: What poker term means consistently losing chips through playing badly?

Answer: Bleed

Question: What poker term means losing all of your chips?

Answer: Bust

Question: What poker technique means betting high on a poor hand?

Answer: Bluffing

Question: What term means a dealer accidentally exposing the cards while dealing?

Answer: Misdeal

Question: What is the term meaning all remaining players show their hands and the highest wins?

Answer: Showdown

Question: What is the other name for community card poker?

Answer: Flop

Question: What is the word for splitting the cards before dealing?

Answer: Cut

Question: What term refers to the chips put into the center of the table by the players?

Answer: Pot

Question: What poker term means the same as a plant or a stooge?

Answer: Shill

Question: What poker term means to discard your hand?

Answer: Fold

Question: What is the proper term for mixing poker cards before dealing?

Answer: Shuffle

Question: What is the name of the paid poker players who work to get games going?

Answer: Shill

Question: What is the name for the term when players reveal their hands?

Answer: Showdown

Question: What phrase means unofficial modifications to standard poker rules adopted by a group of players?

Answer: House Rules

Question: What is the name of the casino employee paid to resolve disputes?

Answer: Floorman

Question: What word means to lay your cards down and stop playing the hand?

Answer: Fold

Question: What poker term means to increase the bet and carry on playing?

Answer: Raise

Poker History & Pop Culture Trivia

Question: A high stakes poker game was a central plot in which James Bond movie?

Answer: Casino Royale

Question: Poker originated in the United States in which century?

Answer: 19th

Question: The World Series of Poker has been played annually since which decade?

Answer: 1970s

Question: Planet Poker first offered online gaming in which decade?

Answer: 1990s

Question: Playing cards are thought to have been invented in which country?

Answer: China

Question: "Poker Face" was a hit for Lady Gaga in which year?

Answer: 2008

Question: Where is the World Series of Poker held?

Answer: Las Vegas

Question: What singer had a hit with 'Poker Face'?

Answer: Lady Gaga

Question: Poker is said to derive from a game called 'poque', played in which country?

Answer: France

Question: The game As Nas, said to be a precursor of poker, originated in which country?

Answer: Persia

Question: As-Nas, a forerunner of Poker, was played in which part of the world?

Answer: Middle East

Miscellaneous Poker Trivia

Question: Poker term means converting your winning chips to money after a game?

Answer: Cashing Out

Question: Which number of card has the nicknames Nickel, Pedro, or Fever?

Answer: 5

Question: Which number of playing card has the nicknames swan or the Curse of Mexico?

Answer: 2

Question: Which American state comes before 'straddle' in a poker betting term?

Answer: Mississippi

Question: Hindu, Pile, and Corgi are types of what?

Answer: Shuffle

Question: What card is sometimes referred to as 'the 53rd card in the pack'?

Answer: Joker

Question: Which animal is also poker slang for a weak player?

Answer: Donkey

Question: What are you said to have if your expression is very blank?

Answer: Poker Face

Question: Seven Card ____, is a form of Poker.

Answer: Stud

Question: What is the maximom number of people that can play in a game of Poker?

Answer: 8

Question: What hand is also known as 'trips' or a set?

Answer: Three of a kind

Question: What word in poker means a change in behaviour which gives a clue?

Answer: Tell

Question: In which country are the main suits in playing cards Cups, Coins, Clubs and Swords?

Answer: Spain