How Texas Holdem is Played

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Texas Holdem can be learned in a few minutes and you can be playing fairly well with a few hours of practice. However, in order to learn the game you must play and you must play fairly often.

Online poker rooms offer a wide variety of play money tables where beginners may practice for free until they are ready to move up to the fun at real money tables. We recommend playing online to start because online poker rooms handle many tedious details, like dealing, shuffling, and determining who has the best hand.

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A Texas Hold’em poker game goes as follows:

• Depending on the limit and betting structure, players will place out blinds and antes so there is an initial amount to get things started. This is calledposting.
• The dealer shuffles up a standard deck of 52 playing cards.
• Each player is dealt two private cards face down. These are called yourhole cards or pocket cards.
• Then there is a round of betting starting with the player to the left of the blinds. This is the preflop betting round. Like most games of poker, players can call, raise, or fold.
• After the betting round ends, the dealer discards the top card of the deck. This is called a burn card. This is done to prevent cheating.
• The dealer then flips the next three cards face up on the table. This is called the flop. These are communal cards that anyone can use in combination with their two pocket cards to form a poker hand.
• The player to the left of the dealer starts another betting round.
• After the betting concludes, the dealer burns again then flips another communal card onto the table. This is called the turn.
• The player to the left of the dealer begins another round of betting. In many types of games, this is where the bet size doubles.
• Again, the dealer burns a card and places a final card face up on the table. This is called the river. Players can now use any of the five cards on the table or the two cards in their pocket to form a five card poker hand.
• There is one final round of betting starting with the player to the left of the dealer.
• After that, we have the showdown. Players who have not folded reveal their hands, beginning with the player to the left of the last player to call. Players use a combination of their pocket cards and the community cards to form a five card poker hand.
• The player who shows the best hand wins! Although sometimes players with the same hand split the pot.
• Once you understand the game’s basic structure, you can play Texas hold ’em and even some of its variants. Texas Holdem is an easy game to learn, just difficult to master. The “mastering” part is the costly part, requiring study and practice. This website offers lots of articles and tools to get you started on the studying. You can practice all you want for free in online poker rooms.

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Different Types of Texas Holdem Poker

There are many ways to play. Regular or tournament forms. Each with tons of variants to fit your playing style or desires for rules. If there is a type you want it will likely be available. As a professional I know the advantages & disadvantages of each game. Here are overviews of what to expect.

Overviews

No Limit Games

No limit texas holdem poker is by far the most exciting of all texas holdem games. Especially the tournament version. The cash game version is also a thrill. True no limit holdem cash games are where someone can buy in for any amount, no maximum. Then bet as much as they have in front of them on the poker table.

Limit Holdem

Limit Texas Holdem Poker is a very relaxing yet fun version of the game. You are never at risk of being raised for all you chips at once. And for a beginner it is the best way to learn Texas Holdem. If you make a mistake which will happen to anyone pro or beginner. It won’t cost you more than a couple small bets compared to no-limit Texas holdem poker. Also some people may prefer limit holdem so some cocky kid isn’t annoying them with all in moves.

Tournaments

A Texas Holdem Poker Tournament can come in many different forms. I will go over them but first the basics. A poker tournament is when you play with all players receiving the same amount of chips to begin with. Then play while the stakes increase. Dictated by an increase of the small and big blind. Sometimes antes are also used. But the blinds will be used in every texas holdem tournament I have ever played. The only way to stay alive in this type of tournament is to get chips by beating other players throughout. Or you will surely run out of chips. This will be continue until only one player remains as the winner.

Unlike when I first played there was no such thing as internet Texas Holdem Poker. And a limited amount of games that could only be played by traveling to card rooms. Or hosting your own game

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