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HOLDEM POKER RULES
Texas Holdem is the most popular version of poker. It requires skills, patience and courage. It is played with a typical 52-card deck. The aim of each Holdem player is to make the best possible five-card combination using both holecards and community cards (for poker hand ranking go here). Thus Holdem is called the board game.
To enter the game each player should make a bet. The person who bets first is called the Small Blind. He is always the first person to the left of the dealer. The player sitting second to the left of the dealer is called the Big blind. He should make a bet twice bigger than the Small Blind’s one. As the dealer is chosen by the button, which moves around the table clockwise, there is a new dealer, the Big Blind and the Small Blind each game.
After the first betting round each player receives two cards, which can bee seen only to a person who gets them. These are called holecards. Then goes another betting round and the flop comes. The flop is three cards, which can be seen and used by everyone at the table. There is a betting round and two more cards come with a betting round after each opening. These two cards are called the Turn and the River.
After the last betting round, there is a showdown. That means that each player shows his cards and the best hand is defined.
Each player has an option of folding at any stage of the game. That means that he can pass his hand to the dealer and quit the game, all his bets remaining in the pot.
If a bet has not been called a player has an option of checking that is calling a zero bet. He pays nothing but remains in the game.
Each player has an option of raising in case he has enough chips. To raise means to make a bet which is bigger than the previous one. There can be no more than three raises during each betting round.
We can distinguish three variants of Texas Holdem according to the to raising limits.
In Limit Holdem players are allowed to raise up to a specific limit. Those who play Pot Limit Holdem can raise up to the amount of the pot. In No Limit Holdem players can raise up to any amount, the only limit being the number of the chips they have in front of them. In No Limit there is an option of All-In, which means that a player puts all his chips into the pot. |
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