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How to play poker?

• poker rules from empirepokerschool.com

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How Do You Win?

• Typically, the winner of each hand of poker is
  the player that holds the highest ranked hand
  when all cards are shown at the end of the hand
  known as the showdown or the player that
  makes the last uncalled bet, thus winning without
  needing to reach a showdown.
• Not sure whether a flush beats a straight? Cant
  remember how to make a full house? You can find
  all the information you need to know about hand
  rankings in the table below (click here for
  more). The strongest hands are in the top row,
  running from left to right, with the weakest
  possible hand being simply a high card.

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Getting Started

• Poker games typically feature a forced bet, such
  as the Big Blind and Small Blind in Holdem and
  Omaha. These forced bets comprise the starting
  pot in any given hand of poker, which is the
  first incentive players have to win the hand.
  Action arising from the subsequent rounds of
  betting further increases the size of the pot.

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Dealing Cards and Betting Rounds

• After any initial cards are dealt, players are
  usually called upon to act in turn, moving
  clockwise around the table.
• Each player can usually take one of the following
  actions when it is their turn to act
• Check To check is to decline the opportunity to
  open the betting. Players can only check when
  there is no bet during the current round, and the
  act of checking passes the action clockwise to
  the next person in the hand. If all active
  players check, those players remain in the hand
  and the round is considered complete.
• Bet Players may bet if no other players have
  bet during the current round. Once a bet has been
  made, other players must call by matching the
  amount bet, in order to remain in the hand.
• Fold Players who fold forfeit their cards and
  cannot win or act again during the current hand.
• Call Players can call if other players have bet
  during the current round this requires the
  calling player to match the highest bet made.
• Raise Players may raise if other players have
  bet during the current round this requires the
  raising player to match the highest bet made, and
  then make a greater one. All subsequent players
  are required to call the raise or raise again
  (re-raise) to stay in the hand.

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• Different variants of poker have different
  betting rounds. Texas Holdem and Omaha are the
  two most popular poker games in the world and
  have identical betting structures, with four
  rounds of betting known as pre-flop, the flop,
  the turn and the river.
• The pre-flop betting round begins as soon as all
  players have received their hole cards, before
  any community cards have been dealt betting on
  the flop occurs after the first three community
  cards are dealt on the turn after the fourth
  community card and on the river after the fifth
  and final community card.
• On each betting round, betting continues until
  every player has either matched the bets made or
  folded (if no bets are made, the round is
  complete when every player has checked). When the
  betting round is completed, the next
  dealing/betting round begins, or the hand is
  complete.
• Heres an example of a Texas Holdem hand after
  all the cards have been dealt. As you can see,
  players may use any of their two hole cards with
  any of the five community cards to make the best
  five-card hand they can make - in this case, you
  can use both your hole cards and three of the
  shared community cards to make a straight.

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• Your opponents hole cards
• Community Cards
• Your hole cards

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Showdown

• Once the last bet or raise has been called during
  the final round of betting, a showdown occurs
  the remaining active players must show or
  declare their hands, and the player(s) with the
  best ranking hand(s) win the pot.
• Players often show their hands in order, rather
  than all at the same time. Multiple players can
  share a single pot, with the pot divided in
  different ways depending on the game rules and
  how each players hand ranks against their
  opponents.

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Betting Limits

• Betting limits refer to the amount players may
  open and raise. Typically, poker games are of the
  following types no limit, pot limit or fixed
  limit.
• No Limit in poker games with a no limit betting
  structure, each player can bet or raise by any
  amount up to and including their full stack (the
  total number of chips they possess at any given
  time) in any betting round, whenever it is their
  turn to act.
• Pot Limit in poker games with a pot limit
  betting structure, each player can bet or raise
  by any amount up to and including the size of the
  total pot at that time.
• Fixed Limit in poker games with a fixed limit
  betting structure, each player can choose to
  call, bet or raise, but only by a fixed amount.
  The fixed amount for any given betting round is
  set in advance.
• For No Limit and Pot Limit games, the Stakes
  column in the PokerStars lobby indicates the
  Small Blind and Big Blind in that game, while for
  Mixed Games, the Stakes listed in the lobby are
  the betting amounts for Limit games in Pot Limit
  and No Limit rounds, the blinds are usually half
  of the blinds in limit games.

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Table Stakes and All-in

• You may have seen a poker scene in a movie or on
  TV where a player is faced with a bet for more
  chips than they have at the table, and is forced
  to wager a watch, a car or some other possession
  in order to stay in the hand. This may make for
  good drama, but it is not generally the way poker
  is played in real life!
• All games on our site are played table stakes,
  meaning only the chips in play at the beginning
  of each hand can be used during the hand. The
  table stakes rule has an application called the
  All-In rule, which states that a player cannot
  be forced to forfeit a poker hand because the
  player does not have enough chips to call a bet.
• A player who does not have enough chips to call a
  bet is declared All-In. The player is eligible
  for the portion of the pot up to the point of his
  final wager. All further action involving other
  players takes place in a side pot, which the
  All-In player is not eligible to win. If more
  than one player goes All-In during a hand, there
  could be more than one side pot.

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• Now youve got the rules, whats stopping you?