How to Play Poker for Beginners

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Poker uses a standard 52-card deck even when played online. It can be played by anywhere from 2-10 players at a single table. If you have enough tables and space you can actually play with thousands of players at one time in a poker tournament format.

Here’s how a basic poker game works:​

The dealer deals everyone two cards starting with the player on his left and ending on himself/herself. The player on the dealer’s left is the first player to act and they have a choice to:

1. Bet (this is No-Limit Hold’em so they can bet ANY amount they want)
2. Check (doing nothing basically).

If anyone decides to bet then the rest of the players have the option to:

1. Call (Match the amount of the raise into the pot)
2. Fold (Give up the hand and all the chips they’ve already put in the pot)
3. Raise (Put even more chips into the pot)

This continues until everyone has called or all the chips are in the middle.Once the first betting round in complete the dealer deals three cards face-up on the board. These are community cards that anyone can use. This is called the flop.

Once again everyone still in the hand gets a chance to bet and consequently raise or fold. Once that betting round is complete he dealer puts a fourth card on the table that anyone can use. This is called the turn.

Again everyone gets the chance to bet/check/raise/fold. The dealer puts a fifth card on the board that anyone can use. This is called the river. For the final time everyone gets a chance to bet/check/raise/fold.

If more than one player is still left in the hand after the final betting hand the cards are exposed and the player with the highest ranked hand wins the pot.

1. Royal Flush (All the same suit, sequence A-K-Q-J-T)
2. Straight Flush (Any sequence all the same suit, for instance 9-8-7-6-5)
3. Four of a Kind (Four cards that are the same value, for instance A-A-A-A)
4. Full House (Three of a kind AND a pair)
5. Flush (All the same suit)
6. Straight (A basic sequence such as 6-5-4-3-2)
7. Three of a kind (Three cards that are the same value such as 5-5-5)
8. Two-pair (Two pairs, such as 9-9 AND 5-5)
9. Pair (Any pair whether it’s A-A or 2-2)
10. High Card (Whatever your highest card is)

 

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• The highest-ranking hand is a royal flush (the royal straight flush). This hand includes a 10, Jack, Queen, King, and Ace of the same suit, one kind (all clubs, diamonds, hearts or spades). It can only be tied but not beaten by the royal flush of another suit.
• A straight flush is made up of 5 consecutive cards of the same suit.
• 4 of a kind means you have 4 cards of the same rank (but different suits, of course) and a fifth card of any rank (such as 4 aces and a 9). If you have 4 aces, then no one can have any hand with an ace, so no royal flush is available.
• A full house contains 3 matching cards of 1 rank and 2 matching cards of another rank.
• A flush contains any 5 cards of the same suit. These skip around in rank or sequence, but are from the same suit.
• A straight contains 5 cards of consecutive rank but from more than one suit.
• 3 of a kind means you have 3 cards of the same rank, plus two unmatched cards.
• 2 pair is made up of two cards of one rank, plus two cards of another rank (different from the first pair), plus one unmatched card.
• Pair means you have 2 cards of the same rank, plus 3 other unmatched cards.
• High card is the lowest-ranking (called a "nothing") hand, when no two cards have the same rank, the five cards are not consecutive, and they are not all from the same suit.