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How to Play Poker
If you have alwaysbeen fascinated when you see people on television playing poker, now is yourchance to learn how to play poker. It may seem really interesting how peoplecan keep up with their poker faces and still win after a couple of bets. Therules of the game may seem a little complicated at first, but once you get thehang of it, you will find it easy and before you know it, you will be achampion in this game. Here are thebasic rules of the game so that you will understand how to play poker easily.
Before each player isdealt with the cards, they all have to decide on the betting limit. This is apractical way to start the game. This will prevent players from having to betvaluable things such as cars, houses and such. When this has been done, eachplayer has to place his ante or blind in the pot. Betting is done in anorganized manner such as the players on the left of the dealer are the ones whopost these bets. The first player to the left places the small blind – thefirst blind bet. Following him, the second player to the left of the dealer isthe one who places the big blind. The difference of the two blinds is that thesmall blind has a smaller value.
The dealer nowproceeds to deal the cards to the players. Each player has two cards called the“hole cards”. These cards are only kept to him only and no one can look at it.
The betting roundstarts, when everybody has two cards. The person on the left of the big blindopens the bet by calling the big blind, raising or folding. The other playersshould follow in making their bets.
When this has beendone, the “flop” or Third Street follows. Three community cards are now facedup. Another betting round is started but this time, it starts with the playeron the left of the dealer.
A fourth card is nowdealt along the community cards. This round is called the Fourth Street. Abetting round follows this and the bet now increases its value to almostdouble.
The final round or theFifth Street is when the dealer deals the fifth community card. With this, thelast round of betting also follows.
The game ends when theplayers turn over their cards. They will now compare the cards of the otherplayers. The player with the highest card wins the pot. This is why it isimportant that you play this game really well and try your best to intimidatethe players so you get win the pot.
Now, you do not justhave to watch television just to learn how to play, you can now call yourfriends and have a friendly poker game. With all the practice that you willget, you be able to learn tips and trick especially in mastering the famous“poker face”.
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