| Texas
Hold'em
This
is by far the most popular and simplest form of poker. Make sure
you learn this game first. Casino card rooms are always filled with
tables of this game like it was a requirement. If you drove to the
casino nearest you right now and wanted to learn how to play poker
you could sit down and play Texas Hold'em.
There are no antes, no 'bring in's, no discarding, and
you ONLY receive two cards face down.....no more no less. Everyone
can easily understand this game, it's quick easy and very fun which
is why the tables are full of Hold'em players. But
watch out, this is a very difficult game to master in the long run
and there are some players in the casino who are making a living
from playing this game.
You
receive two cards to start the hand and there is a bet session just
on those two alone, then there is a Flop, Turn, and River , each
with a bet session. The Flop is 3 community cards face up which
can be used by either player along with their own 2 cards. The Turn
is a 4th face up community cards and the River is the 5th and last
community card. So from before the flop until after the River there
wil be FOUR bet sessions in this game total.
In
Hold'em you can use both cards, one card, or NEITHER by just playing
the table cards themselves. If you have (6,7) and the table is (66699)
you use just the 6, if it was (77799) you would use the just the
7, but if it was (66623) you would use both the 6 and the 7 since
your hand would be (66667) not (66662 or 3). However if the board
was (AAAKQ) you would use NEITHER card in your hand. Normally though,
if you can't even use either card you would have folded before the
River but on occasion when no one bets you can just play the table.
This is termed as "Playing the Board". Obviously you can't win when
you are playing the board and niether can your opponents so the
pot will be split evenly per player in those cases.
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Below
are several hand examples you will need to understand.
Some
very common hands played in Hold'em are suited Aces and suited Jack-10's.
Many
players play a suited Jack Ten in Hold'em since you can make a straight
all the way from (6 7 8 9 10) to (10, J, Q, K, A) and anywhere in
between, plus you can make a flush. In the example above this player
had four to a straight on the flop (7 8 10 J). On the turn she had
four to a flush, four to the previous straight, and even four to
a higher straight (A K J 10). So if the river was a 9, a queen,
or any heart she would make a very good hand. In this case she lucked
out and got a heart for a flush. (K J 10 8 2) all hearts. So she
ended up using BOTH cards for a total hand of (J, 10, 8, K, 2) of
hearts. Plus she DID need to hit one of her possibilities since
her opponent had an in Ace in his hand and an Ace on the flop so
he wasn't going to fold. He only used ONE card for a total hand
of (A, A, 7, 8, K). Since you only receive two cards in this game,
the average hand is just one pair, so most people don't fold a pair
of Aces with anything else. So obviously the best hand you can get
before the flop is a pair of aces in your hand which has the poker
name of "POCKET ROCKETS" (A-A). But don't get upset if you get "A-A"
and lose, it happens. Your just a huge mathematical favorite just
as if you bought 10 million different lottery tickets. I've won
and lost EVERY hand to EVERY hand. If you notice when I watched
the hand above, the losing player with the Ace-6 could have hadd
A-A and the result would not have changed. The flush was a flush.
Remember the cards don't know that you are a 5% favorite to win
or a 95% and they don't know what "JUSTICE" is. But
don't worry, once you learn how to play you will receive the justice
you deserve in the long run. You should
only worry if justice is NEVER served only when you play.
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