HOW TO PLAY POKER THE SIMPLE BASICS FOR BEGINNERS OF NO LIMIT HOLDEM POKER
Generally whether you are playing poker at home in a casino or club or poker online a table consist's of anywhere from one to ten players and a dealer ,the dealer will deal from left to right passing what is called the dealer button to the next player after each poker hand has finished the first player after the button places what is called the small blind (this is a small amount to start the game off) the next player places the big blind this is double the amount of the small blind and is again to start the game off, all players are then dealt two cards each face down from the dealer button (these are called whole cards) so no other players can see their cards and each player looks at his or her cards, now the betting starts with the player after the big blind and should that player wish to stay in the hand he or she must at least put in to the pot the value of the big blind, or he or she may choose to raise in which case every other play that follows must match his or her raise or fold or choose to raise even more ,this continues until the remaining players have all contributed the same amount to the pot or folded.
Following this round of betting the dealer then deals three cards face up on the table (these three cards are called the flop) as before another round of betting in sues until all players have either checked (checked = each player in turn chose not to bet by saying check or tapping the table to indicate a no bet) or all players have placed a bet of the same amount ,following this the next card is turned over called the turn card or fourth street, then as before another round of betting or checking ensues and the last and final card is dealt called the river card after the river card comes a final round of betting with players choosing to check , fold or bet until the remaining players have again placed the same amount in to the pot ,the winner is determined by the sole remaining player or the best hand from the remaining players made up of either one card from your whole cards and four cards from the table or both your whole cards and three cards from the table.
Online Poker Vs Live Play what’s the Difference?
There are many players that believe that online poker is different to live play and they would be correct in that assumption, after all you cannot see your opponent’s so there for you cannot get an accurate read or spot any poker tells, so how do you get a read your opponents poker hands , well you can’t all you can do is judge on how they play their poker hands and take your poker tell from there, there are also other changes that need to made to your game in order to play online poker and win not least of which is a change to your poker strategy , although poker hand out’s remain the same your poker hand percentages can differ dramatically a good example would be if you where holding AA as your whole cards while playing a live game your percentage of winning the hand would be 80% how ever in online poker this percentage is reduced to a mere 20%, online poker does how ever have a great deal going for it after all you can play any time day or night no matter what type of poker game variation there is always a game going on, so you can play for real or play poker for free as all the best online poker sites provide free play poker tables for their players.
