How To Play Poker Texas Hold'em Poker

by Jerry "Jet" Whittaker
Oct 29, 2006
 

Texas Hold’em:

Poker is the most exciting card game which involves skill and bluff. It is more interesting than any other game because it is played against the real player and not against house. There are various poker games available in casino. But for the beginner the best game of poker is Texas Hold’em Poker. Texas Hold’em Poker is a famous poker game where the main objective of the player is to finish with the best 5-card poker hand and to win the pot. To learn the game you have to follow the following steps:

Buy In:

Before playing the game you have to buy poker chips with which you can put your bet. You must buy in a minimum amount of chips when you sitting down at your chosen table.

Blinds:

Blinds means bets which are made before any cards have been seen. There are two blinds option available in a Hold’em poker as small blind and big blind. The player to the immediate left of the dealer made the small blind, and the player to their left made the big blind.

Opening Deal:

After blinds, opening deal starts. Here each player receives two cards face down. Players are getting the cards in clockwise direction from the dealer. These cards are called pocket cards or hole cards.

Betting:

This is the most crucial stage of the game. Here players put their bet according to the cards they got in the opening deal stage. The betting starts with the player immediate left to the big blind. Betting round has three options for each player, fold, call and raise.

In fold option you have to give up your hand and in call, you can match an amount with other players. While in raise you are allowed to call and increase the betting amount. Here also betting moves with clockwise direction.

Flop:

In flop three cards are dealt face up in the table and each player can use to these cards to build their hand. After flop is over next betting round starts.

Turn card:

In next stage another card to be dealt face up on the table. This card is called turn up card which can also use to build hand.

River:

Here final card dealt face up which is called the river. Now all the cards have been dealt and the players can now see their remaining cards in hand. This is the final betting stage.

Showdown:

This is the final stage to determine the winner of the game. Here each player shows their hand cards starting with the last person to bet and so on. The winner of the Texas Hold’em is decided by the poker best hand ranks.

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