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Texas Hold Gambling Online Poker
by Jerry "Jet"
Whittaker
Nov 30, 2006
How to play Texas holdem:
Texas Hold'em is a community card game. In this game
each player has two down cards that are theirs alone,
and combines them with the five community cards to make
the best possible five-card hand. The play begins by
dealing two cards face down to each player; these are
known as hole cards or pocket cards and then betting
round follows. In most of the
Texas hold'em game the betting
starts with one or two blind bets to the left of the
dealer. The blind bets are the forced bets that must be
made before seeing one's cards. The game proceeds in
clockwise from the blinds, with each player free to
fold, call the blind bet, or raise. Generally the blinds
are live, meaning that they may raise themselves when
the action gets back around to them. After this the
three cards are dealt face up in the middle of the table
and this is called the flop. As the betting round
ensues, action starts on the first blind, immediately to
the dealers left. The other card is dealt face up. This
event is termed as the turn, which is followed by
another round of betting, that begins from the dealer's
left and then the final card called river is dealt
followed by the final round of betting.
Pros and cons of online poker gambling:
One basic advantage of online poker is that it is
dramatically cheaper because they have much smaller
overhead costs. Also online poker rooms tend to be
viewed as more player-friendly. Like for example the
software loaded for the poker may prompt the player to
act when it is their turn. More over most of the online
poker rooms allow the players to play for low stakes
even as low as 1¢ and often offer poker freerolls where
there is no entry fee, which is a great way of
attracting beginners. However there are some
disadvantages of online poker as well. The first one is
the vulnerability of the online venues to certain types
of frauds and collusions between the players. But unlike
traditional land casinos they promote poker gambling.
The land based casinos do not promote the poker games as
it is very hard for them to make profit from them.
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