A community card, also known as a board card, is a card in certain variations of poker that is dealt face-up in the center of the table and can be used by all players to make their best hand.
In Texas Hold’em and Omaha, for example, there are five community cards dealt in the middle of the table and each player uses those cards in combination with their own hole cards to make their best possible five-card hand. Community cards allow for more complex and strategic gameplay, as players have more information to work with in determining the strength of their own hands and the likelihood of their opponents having strong hands as well.