How To Play Poker-Introduction on how to play Texas Hold’em Poker.

The guy who invented poker was bright, but the guy who invented the chip was a genius 

This is the first post from the blog: How To Play Poker.

Today I’ll be explaining where poker started and teach you the basics of How To Play Poker. When you’ve finished and read all my posts you’ll be able to play poker and make money online or at the local casino!

My favourite and poker game I play the most is Texas Hold ‘em. Basically at the beginning of every game you are delt 2 cards face down by the dealer. The deal button is passed around to the person to the left at the end of each ‘Hand’.   A hand is basically that turn of game play (a round).

At the beginning of every Hand the Small Blind and Big Blind have to put a given amount of money every turn (The BLIND).The Big Blind has to put in the BLIND and Small blind has to put in less (usually half). This is just to create a pot (Money in the Middle) and get the game moving so people won’t wait and only place when they have a good hand!

The person left to Big Blind is the first to act and can either call the big blinds amount (put same in), Raise (Put more in) or Fold (Throw away cards, Out of hand). This keeps going around until everyone has put the same amount as the highest bidder or Folded.

Once everyone has put their money in the dealer puts the top card to the side and places 3 cards face up. This is called ‘The Flop’, betting takes place. Then another card to the side and another card face up ‘The Turn’ betting takes place. Then yet another card to the side and another card face up and betting takes place. This is the last round and person with the best hand wins.

Certain words to remember:

All In- Putting all your money in, if someone doesn’t have that much people can match and they have a separate stack they can win and the other people with more money (who called) can bet and try win that pot and another (Larger usually) pot.

Call:Put the same amount money as the bidder. Raise:Put more money in than the bidder.                Fold:Don’t put the same amount of money in and can’t win the pot.

Pot:Amount of money in the middle, where Sub-Pot is what was covered in All-In.

In No-Limit: There is no limit to bid. Blind is minimum. Limit:The maximum you can bid is the blind.                       Pot limit:The maximum you can bid is all the pot’s added up.

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