Texas Holdem
Texas Hold'em online free poker game has become the most popular around the globe.
How to Play Texas Hold'em?
Texas Hold'em rules:
In Texas Hold'em poker, each player is dealt two private cards. Five community cards are dealt face-up on the table. All players use these shared community cards in conjunction with their own hole cards to each make their best possible five-card poker hand in online Texas Hold'em.
The game includes four betting rounds that move clockwise around the table, and it starts next to the dealer button, which moves to the left after each hand. The dealer button replaces the 'real' dealer in the interactive games. If two or more players gathered similar Texas Hold'em poker hands, the pot will be divided between them.
Blinds
Before the game begins one player immediately clockwise from the left of dealer posts the small blind, the first forced bet.
There are called blinds, because the players cannot see the cards. Another player immediately clockwise from the small blind posts the big blind, which is typically twice the size of the small blind.
Pre-flop
The players are dealt two private cards. After the cards are dealt the first bet is placed by the player that sits to the left of the blinds. In the first round of betting the players have the option to play their hands by:
Folding
To lie down your cards and stop playing the hand, because someone else has made a larger bet than you are willing to call. Usually, one folds by mucking one's cards.
Checking
If there has been no betting before you in a betting round, you may check which is like calling a bet of $0, or passing your turn. If all the players at a table check in turn in the same round, it is said to be checked around, resulting in a free card.
Calling
To call is to match the current bet. Calling is the cheapest (and the most passive) way to remain in a hand.
Betting
To bet is to put money into the pot, usually by opening as later action in a round is a raise or a re-raise. As a noun, a bet can be the money added to the pot by a player on one turn, or the amount required in order calling another player.
Raising
To increase the amount of the current bet.
Re-raising
To increase a raise. Raising a bet after a player has placed a raise.
When the betting round comes back to a player who posted the big blind, this player can pass the round and remain in the game without adding anything to the pot. If another player raises the bet, then other players who want to remain in the game must match the raise and increase the bet again, or fold. A player who posted the big blind (forced bet) can pass the round and remain in the game without having to place a bet. But if another player has raised the bet, the player who posted the big blind has three options: folding, calling, or raising the bet again.
After the players fold, or have placed their bets, the flop is dealt.
Flop
Now, three cards are dealt face-up on the table. In Hold'em, the three cards on the flop are community cards,
available to all players still in the hand. Betting on the flop begins with the active player immediately clockwise from the button.
Turn
When the betting action is completed for the flop round, the ‘turn’ is dealt face-up on the table.
The turn is the fourth community card in Hold'em. Another round of betting ensues, beginning with the active player immediately clockwise from the button.
River
When betting action is completed for the turn round, the ‘river’ is dealt face-up on the table. The river is the fifth and final community card in a Hold'em game. Betting again begins with the active player immediately clockwise from the button.
Showdown
If there is more than one remaining player when the final betting round is complete, the last person to bet or raise shows their cards, unless there was no bet on the final round in which case the player immediately clockwise from the button shows their cards first. The player with the best five-card poker hand wins the pot. In the event of identical hands, the pot will be equally divided between the players with the best hands.
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