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How Dealing Works |
How Betting Works |
Texas Hold'em
Pot Limit/No
Limit | Head-to-Head
If you are unfamiliar with the general rules of poker, you have come to the right page.
Poker is a game of skill (your abilities), mixed with the element of chance (the shuffled deck of cards).
In poker, you strive to get the best
five card hand.
Our games all present the player with more
than five cards. You get to use the five best cards for the situation.
Poker hands are ranked based on the statistical odds of getting a specific set of cards.
If you are unfamiliar with the rankings of hands, see Hand Rankings.
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How Dealing Works
In a casual game of poker among friends, each player takes turns as the dealer; the position of dealer rotating around
the table in a clockwise fashion.
In a professionally managed card room, the house provides a dealer.
In a physical
card room there is a person who deals.
In a virtual poker room, such as this, there is a virtual dealer.
For some games, position relative to the dealer is not
important. For example, in 7 Card
Stud, where you are seated
relative to the dealer does not have any impact on the game.
For other games, the position is very important.
For example in Texas
Hold'em, the player to the immediate left of
the dealer position and the next player are required to put money, the
small blind and
big
blind, into play.
To ensure fairness, the deal rotates clockwise.
The image of a small, flat disk with the letter
"D" is used to
signify the virtual dealer.
This is also known as the button.
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How Betting Works
We use the standard bet and three raises model.
That is, for any betting round, there can be an opening bet and no more
than three raises. After the third raise, betting is said to be capped.
Unless otherwise stated, we permit
check and
raise betting. This means player A, is permitted to check or
call a prior bet when it is his/her turn.
If a subsequent
player raises and the betting has not been
capped, player A is permitted to raise when the betting returns to him/her.
Also see the section on betting
on the House Rules page.
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Texas Hold'em
The game of Texas Hold'em is a fast paced 7-card game. Many people consider
Hold'em to be the most popular and exciting
variation of poker. Each player gets two
face
down cards. The remaining cards are
community
cards, dealt face up in
the center of the table, to be shared by all players.
- The game begins with the posting of the
small blind by the virtual dealer.
- The player to the immediate left posts the
big
blind.
- Each player is dealt two cards, face down, at the start.
These are called the pocket
cards.
- Following the dealing of the pocket cards is a
round of betting, beginning with the
first participating player to
the left of the virtual dealer.
This first round of betting is at the lower level of the table
stakes.
In a $10/$20 game, each bet in this round is $10.
- Next, three community cards are dealt, face up.
These are called the flop.
- Now there is another round of betting.
This second round is again at the lower stakes level.
- A fourth card, called the turn is dealt face up.
- Once again, there is a round of betting.
Now betting in this third round is at the higher stakes level.
Using the
$10/$20 game example, all bets are now $20.
- A fifth and final face up card, called the
river is dealt.
- A final round of betting is held.
Once again, the betting in this fourth round is at the higher stakes level.
- Beginning with the last player to bet, players must show or
muck their hands.
This is called the Showdown.
In Texas Hold'em, betting always begins with the first active player to the left of the dealer button.
The winning hand is the strongest hand found by combining a
player's pocket cards and the community cards.
You can win with
a hand made up from both your pocket cards and three community cards, or one pocket card and four pocket cards.
You can even
share in the winning if you are still in and the board, the five community cards, makes up the winning hand.
We offer 9 seat, 6 seat, and head-to-head
Hold'em games.
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Pot Limit and No Limit
Hold'em
Pot Limit and No Limit Hold'em
are two exciting variants of
this popular poker game.
The rules are the same, except
for betting. Rules
that apply to both Pot Limit and
No Limit
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The
minimum bet is the the larger
of the big blind or the last
bet/raise.
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No
cap on number of raises
(except when an under-raise
has been made).
-
House
maximum bet/raise of $999.
The
rules for both variants are the
same with one exception:
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Pot
Limit: A player may
bet or raise any amount
between minimum bet and the
amount of money in the
pot. The amount of
money in the pot includes
money in the pot, money in
front of other players,
money raked, and the amount
needed by the current player
to call prior betting.
In any event, no single bet
or raise may exceed the
house cap of $999.
-
No
Limit: A
player may bet or raise any
amount from the higher of
the big blind or the last
bet/raise to the house cap
of $999.
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Head-to-Head Hold'em
This exciting variation of
Hold'em allows you to pit your
skills against just one other
player. Our poker room
enforces the traditional special
Blinds rule for one-on-one
Hold'em, whether at one of our
special two seat tables, or at a
larger table at which only two
players are seated. Only
in head-to-head poker, the
blinds are handled differently
than you might expect.The
small blind is posted by the
dealer, rather than the player
to the left of the dealer.
The other player posts the big
blind. On our tables that
support more than two players,
our system will switch to
head-to-head rules whenever
there are only two players dealt
in.
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