Poker 104: Starting Hands
There is not a unique mode to play poker; you can play better or worse. So you can easily win money if you play better than your opponent. A card deck has 52 cards. Possible distinct starting hands are 52*51 / 2 = 1326. Wow, would be really difficult to learn what to do (call, check, raise or fold) with all of them. Luckily, most of them have identical value before the flop (the 3 first community cards). For example, A♥ J♥ and A♠ J♠ are identical, because both have an Ace and Jack of the same suit. There are 169 starting hands...
read morePoker 103: Poker combinations
In total you have 7 cards (your 2 cards of the hand + 5 community cards). You can combine whichever cards you want in order to achieve one of the following combinations (from best to worst). When hand cards are shown face-up, the player who gets the higher combinations gets all the pot money. In conclusion and making it short, here are the...
read morePoker 102: Basic rules
First of all I want you to know: playing and watching others play is the best way to learn. Anyway, here are the basics of No Limit Texas Hold’em: There usually are about 10 people per game. There can be from 2 to millions of players. Two face down random cards are given to each player. These are called starting hands. In each table there is a: Dealer: can be a player, different in each game, or another person Small Blind: placed on the left of the dealer. This player has a forced minimum bet. Big Blind: to the second left of the...
read morePoker 101: Poker variants
There are a lot of poker variants, basically divided into three types: Draw poker: games in which players are dealt a complete hand, hidden, and then improve it by replacing cards. Most common are Five-card draw and Badugi. Stud poker: games in which each player receives a combination of face-up cards and face-down cards in multiple betting rounds. Most common are Seven-card stud and Five-card stud. Community card poker: games in which each player’s incomplete hidden hand is combined with shared face-up cards. Most common are Texas hold...
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