Learn to Play Texas Hold'em Poker

The game Texas Hold 'em itself is very easy to understand. You know that in an online Texas Hold'em game there are four rounds of betting, one before the flop, one on the flop, one on the turn and the last one after the river. The flop, turn and river are the so-called community cards that are dealt face-up on the table.

Preflop - the poker cards are dealt

Two poker players post a blind! Before the cards are dealt, two players must post a blind bet. They are called blinds (secret card), because they haven't seen their poker cards yet. There is one small bet, the Small Blind, and one big bet, the Big Blind, usually double the small blind.

These bets aren't posted by anyone, but instead by the two players sitting on the left of the dealer. The task changes clockwise each round. In order to recognize the current dealer, a special chip is placed in front of the concerned poker player. This is called the Button or Dealer Button.

Ante Texas Hold'em occasionally has an ante (usually only in tournament play) where every player must place a specified amount in the pot prior to the beginning of each hand. The ante does not count toward any future bets.

Everyone receives two poker cards

Now each Internet poker player is dealt two cards and so begins the first round of betting. Do you have strong enough cards to commit chips or money, or will you throw away your cards?

What are the betting round options?

Fold! If you don't want to continue in the hand, you can throw your poker cards away and "leave" the current round.

Bet! When no one ahead of you has bet anything, you can do it yourself. You would say, for example: "I bet 5 chips" and place your chips in the pot, so that anyone who wants to play on must pay your bet. If they don't, they can fold.

Betting all of one's chips is called going all-in. Once you are all-in, you can't bet anything more, but also cannot fold before the showdown. Indeed, when you are all-in, you will automatically be in the hand until its end, giving you the possibility to win by showing the best cards.

Raise! You can also raise a bet, for example, raising a poker opponent's bet of 5 chips to 10 chips. By doing this you are making the bet more expensive to call for anyone who wants to play on. If they don't want to pay extra, they must fold.

Call! If someone in front of you has bet, you have the possibility to call this bet. For this you just pay whatever the price of the bet was. If an opponent bets 5 chips, you would call 5 chips to stay in the hand.

Check! If no one has bet yet, then you can check. This means that you don't place any bet and let the next player act. It is like saying "I'll wait and see what other poker players do before entering any chips into the pot".