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Sports..

Poker.

Poker is a sport that has grown slow during the years, but sometime in the beginning of the 21st centuary poker and Hold'em in particular exploaded, it grew unimaginally big, rose in popularity fast and quickley replaced 7 card draw as the "number 1 poker game" it is now the most famous card game in the world. Texas Hold'em, or just "Hold'em", is the most popular game of poker, and it will be the focus now.

Hold 'em is a community card game where each player may use any combination of the five community cards (the 5 cards on the table) and the player's own two hole cards (the 2 cards you get on youre hand in the beginning) to make a poker hand, in contrast to other variants as stud or draw where each player holds a separate individual hand in texas you have 2. In Hold'em you aim to get the best hand, or bluff the opponents to think you have it, the hands you can get are: 1par (2 cards of the same kind, number) 2par (as above x2) trips (3 cards of the same kind, number) straight (5 cards in a row, example 5-6-7-8-9) flush (5 card of the same collor, for example 5 diamonds or 5 cloves) full house (both trips and a par) 4 of a kind (4 cards of the same kind, number) Straight flush (a straight in the same collor, example 4-5-6-7-8 of hearts) Royal Straight Flush (as above, but 10-A)

__Basketball__
Basketball was invented back in 1891 by the canadian physical-education professor James Naismith in Massachusetts, USA. The sport takes place on a large piece of ground outside ( asphalt is the best alternative) or inside on a floor. The "goals" are baskets The game consists of two teams, each team has five(5) players on the field at a time, but the players can be substituted (switched during gameplay). So you can have unlimited players, but only 5 allowed to play simultaneously. The thing you play with is a specially designed ball that’s made for bouncing.

The goal is to throw the ball into the opponents basket from 3 different distances: The "Slam-dunk" (jump and slam the ball through the ring), The 2-point line also the "free-throw-line" at about 3 meters from the basket and finally the 3-point line approximately 6 meters from the basket.

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Basketball is often judged by two(2) referees (in the NBA, 3) apart from other sports these referees have equal responsibility and influence on the game. The playing-ground is divided into 2 or 3 zones with one referee beeing responsible over only his/her zone. Leaving the other referees commanding their zones individually. With this type of judging the referees can be concentrated on their own zone, thereby having easier keeping sight of what's happening during the game.======

The NBA
NBA is the largest Basketball-league in North-america. The league was founded in 1946 as the Basketball Association of America but later in 1949 when closing up with compediting National Basketball League, changed it's name to The NBA (National Basketball Association).

**Fiba**
====Fiba is the internationell basketball-league founded in 1932. Fiba arranges the world championship in Basketball as well as having the role of teaching basketball-referees, teaching out rules etc. Fiba is divided into 5 different zones: Africa, America, Europe, Australia and Asia.====

LeBron James
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Floorball.

__The Basics__ Floorball is an indoor team sport in which you've got five players plus a goaltender playing, for both the teams of course, so there should be a total of twelve people playing at all times (if no one's called off by the referee). The basics of floorball is rather simple: You've got two teams were both teams are supposed to get the small white ball into their opponents goal in order to score a point. The team with the most points after 20x3 (plus eventual overtime) minutes wins the game. Floorball is played, on the more serious levels, on a gym floor. Which makes it a year-round sport for both the amateurs and the professional players. Although it isn't uncommon to see children playing it on the school playground. Picture found at: [|http://floorballontario.com/?page_id=7]

__Rules__ Even though floorball maylook similar to ice hockey, the rules are very different. For example is checking disallowed in floorball, whereas it's almost a necessity in hockey if you want to have an edge on your opponents. Although you may use controlled shoulder-to-shoulder contact. You may not put your stick between the legs of any opponent either (to prevent trippings). I'm not going to write down any more rules, but be assured, there are plenty more. Like how long stick you may use (105 cm/350 grams), and the fact that you are not allowed to hit your opponents sticks with your own, etc. etc.

__Other__ Floorball was invented in the late 1970's as a way for the schools to get ice hockey or alternatively bandy into the school gyms. In my experiece it is (just like many other sports) truly "easy to play, hard to master".