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Gambling Texas Hold'em
by Jerry "Jet"
Whittaker
Oct 14, 2006
Gambling Texas Hold’em
Texas Holdem is the most popular community card poker
game and is one of the favorites for poker tournament.
Rather than other poker games Texas Holdem is the
easiest game to learn. The game can be learned in a few
minutes by anyone, and you can be playing as the best
after some hours of practice. In order to learn the
game, however you must play the game and play it most
often. One of the poker rooms known as the Pacific Poker
offers a wide verity of free money poker tables for the
beginners to practice their skills until they are ready
to move up to play for real money tables.
Texas Holdem poker is generally played with 2 to 10
players, but it can be played with more around 23
players, but beyond 12 players the size of the table is
the limiting factor. The game is a very positional game,
since betting for all the rounds is started from the
dealers left side.
Procedure of the game
The game begins with each player dealt with two each
face down. These are the only two cards the player will
receive individually and they will not be revealed until
showdown. This will make the game as closed poker game.
The first round begins with the player sitting to the
left of the dealer. The dealer then deals a burn card
along with three face-up community cards and the second
round starts. For the next round, a burn card and a
community card called the turn are dealt. Finally a burn
and a single community card called the river are dealt
for the fourth round.
On
the showdown, each player plays the best five-cards
poker hand he could make from the seven cards given to
him. The player can use both of his own two down cards
or none of the cards to make his final five-card hand.
In the showdown ties and multiple flushes may also occur
and in such case the ranks of the cards in each flush
are counted carefully to determine a winner.
Gambling Texas
Hold’em is considered one of the best community
games.
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