Texas Hold'Em
Texas Hold’em is a game with 2-10 players and can be played as no limit, pot limit, or fixed limit. In Texas Hold’em poker the player creates the best five-card hand, based on standard poker hand rankings, using any of the seven cards on the table (two pocket cards and five community cards).
The community cards are the up to five cards faced up on the table that all players can use to make their best possible poker hand.
The pocket cards are the two private cards that the player is dealt with and only he can see. The player should combine the pocket cards with the community cards to make the best possible five-card hand. The player with the best five-card hand wins the pot. In the case of identical hands, the pot will be equally divided between the players with the best hands.
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RULES
A Hand of Texas Hold'em (step-by-step)
1. The Dealer
When a new round starts, one player is chosen to be the "dealer"; if this is the first hand at the table, this player is chosen randomly. He is marked with a special chip in front of him, the so called "dealer button". The dealer button moves one position clockwise before each hand start.
2. Blinds
There are two "forced bets" in the game: the blinds. Before any cards are dealt, the player immediately to the left of the dealer has to pay the "Small Blind", the player one seat further to the left has to pay the "Big Blind", which is usually twice the size of the small blind.
3. Initial Deal
Around the table, every player is dealt two cards face down. These are called pocket cards or hole cards and can only be used by the individual who holds them.
4. First betting round
The betting round begins with the player immediately to the left of the big blind and continues in a clockwise direction around the table, with each player having the option to fold, check, call (highest call before them), bet, or raise.
5. The Flop
Three cards are now dealt face up in the middle of the table. These cards are called "the flop". These are "community" cards and can be used by all the players to help make up their final poker hand.
6. Second betting round
A second round of betting follows. This is carried out exactly as the first betting round, but now the first player to act is the first player left of the dealer that is still active (didn't fold before).
7. The Turn
Another community card (fourth) is dealt face up on the table - this is called “the turn”.
8. Third betting round
A third betting round takes place. Again, it's opened by the first player left of the dealer who is still active.
9. The River
A last community card, called "the river", is dealt to help players complete their hand.
10. Last betting round
This final betting round is carried as per previous betting rounds.
11. Showdown
If there are two or more players who have not folded their cards by the end of the final betting round, the winner is determined by a showdown. Each player builds the best fivecard poker hand out of his own two pocket cards and the five community cards. Whoever holds the best combination wins. If two or more players have winning hands with the same hand strength, the main and the side pots in which the players have participated are divided evenly.
12. Next Hand
After a hand is completed and the pot taken by the winner, the dealer button is moved one player to the left, and the next hand begins.
Betting actions
Fold
If you don't like your cards, you can fold. If you have posted a blind, made a bet, or raised a bet, you will lose that money, but you will not lose anymore. After folding, you are out of the game until the next hand begins.
Check
If nobody has made a bet (the blinds count as a bet so before the flop only the big blind can check), you can check and pass the action to the next player.
Call
If there has already been a bet or raise in front of you, you can call the bet (or raise it) to stay in the hand. To make a call, you pay the exact amount your opponent has bet.
Bet / Raise / Re-Raise
If you think your hand is good enough, you can make a bet. If another player has already made a bet, you can raise it.
How often can you raise?
In fixed limit games, there can be one bet and three raises in each round (bet, raise, re-raise, reraise). After three raises, the betting round is capped, and the next card is dealt (or if it is the final betting round, the best hand is determined).
In pot limit and no limit games, the betting is not capped.
All-in
Whenever you bet or raise all of your remaining chips, you are "all-in". No matter what other players are doing, you cannot be forced to fold your hand.
The betting round then continues until all players have folded or called the third raise, or until a bet has been called by all players (except the one who placed the bet) with no raise taking place.
- When you are all-in, or you call all your chips, the pot is divided into main pot and side pot. All subsequent chips are added to a side pot.
- When the round is over, and the "all-in" player does not have a winning hand, both the side pot and the main pot go to the winning hand, as usual.
- When the round is over, and the "all-in" player has a winning hand, the main pot goes to the "all-in" player, and the side pot goes to the next best hand.
- When several players go all-in, multiple side pots are created. The pots are divided according to hand and order in which the players went all-in. The strongest hand wins the pot that was collected until he/she went all-in. The next strongest hand gets the pot that was collected from there to the point when he/she went all-in, etc.
If two or more players have winning hands with the same hand strength, the main and the side pots in which the players have participated are divided evenly. However, keep in mind that you can only win as many chips from each player as you have invested in the pot. This means that if you and at least one other player have the same best hand, and you are all-in, but there are more chips bet after you went all-in, your opponents may receive more chips than you, depending on how many chips are in the pot.
For example, there is a hand with three players. Player A goes all-in with 100 chips, Players B and Player C bet 150 chips each. Player A and Player B have the same best hand, therefore, they would split the 400 chips pot.
Since Player A bet only 100 chips, Player A can only win a total of 100 chips from each player plus the chips Player A has bet (a total of 300 chips). As the pot is split with Player B, Player A