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Texas Holdem Poker Basic rules _ what are they?

The Texas Holdem poker is played as bet or fold game. It deals with two cards, a three series card and also two single cards. The basic rules for playing this game can be summarized as follows:

  • The dealer button tells us which dealer has made the nominal bet for the current game.As the play begins the player starts clockwise from the button and submits his first forced bet as the small blind and in similar pattern the big blind is posted. In case of a limit game the big blind and the small bet is equal. The small blind however depends on the stakes. The size of the blinds however plays the deciding factor in No limit and pot limit games.
  • An ‘ante’ is sometimes required in this type of game. ‘Ante’ is a type of forced bet, smaller in size than the normal blinds. Action then starts clockwise from the big blind with two hole cards that an individual player plays.
  • Poker games, how much different it may be has the following actions: fold, check, bet, call and raise. The availability of options is depended on the preceding player. The player has the option of giving up, i.e., fold and discard at any point of the game. He can keep the cards if there has not been any bet. If otherwise then he can fold, call or raise. If a player calls it means he can match the bet of the preceding player. If he calls raise then it means that he can increase the amount of the bet. A player can continue to bet along with all active players till the pot shows equal balance in the bet.
  • The community cards are used for flop, i.e., face-up on board. The betting for these cards is done before the face-up. The players may check the cards before betting and the action is clockwise. After the ‘flop’ comes the ‘turn’ which is the fourth community card in Texas Holdem Poker also commonly known as the Fourth Street. The action again starts with this card in the similar fashion i.e starting clockwise from the button.
  • Then comes the Fifth street also known as the river. This is the final and the fifth community card. Betting starts in the same way. While playing at Judi Bola site, the rules and regulations are followed to get the desired results. The implementation of the strategy in the correct way is necessary to win more cash. The betting cards are played with the interest of the players. 
  • The player or players remaining in this final round shows their cards clockwise. The player holding the best five poker cards wins the jackpot or the pot. If there is a tie the pot is divided equally.

The rules for all the variants of Texas Holdem Poker are the same with certain differences:

  • In Limit game the betting is pre-determined.
  • In No-limit Holdem the bet size is the same as the big blind. Players also have the freedom to bet as much as they want.
  • In Pot Limit Texas Hold’em players can bet only up to the size of the pot.
  • In Mixed Texas Hold’em the blinds are increased between every switch of the game from limit Holdem to No-limit Holdem.
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