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Hand in card games From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A flush is a hand of playing cards where all cards are of the same suit.[1] There are different types of flush, including straight, where the flush is formed from a run of cards in unbroken sequence of ranks. Flushes are one of the types of scoring hand in poker.
The general meaning of the word flush is fullness or abundance, as there are similar meaning words in Dutch, French, Italian and Spanish. The words origin is 'fluxus' in Latin, which means 'flow'.
Certain games recognise different types of flush. For example, in poker, there are the following:
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