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Learn Holdem
Poker
This
lesson is a basic rules and strategy guide, Learn Holdem.
Learn
Holdem Rules:
The
casino dealer deals out two cards, face down, one at a time to each
player.
The
first player to receive a card is the player to the left of the button.
After
all players receive their two cards, there is a round of betting where
players
can call,
raise or fold.
Checking
is not allowed on this round, called blind betting.
The
dealer now deals three cards face up in the center of the table called
the
flop.
Another
round of betting begins. The dealer places a fourth card face up on the
table followed
by a betting round.
The
fifth and final card is placed by the dealer face
up in the middle of the table, and this is
the final round of betting.
Players
choose their best five-card hand among seven cards, two cards dealt
face
down at
the beginning of the game, and the five community cards in the middle
of the
layout.
The
winning hand is the highest poker hand.
Learn Holdem Strategies:
In
Texas Holdem, continue playing with strong starting cards if first two
cards
are two aces,
two kings, two queens, and A-K or A-Q suited.
Other
possibles are any two cards higher than 10.
Fold
if you have a pair less than sevens.
You
should look for lower cards in the flop than the rank of your pair.
Holding
a lock hand likely to win (e.g., full house) requires a strategy to
keep as
many players
in the pot as long as possible building your win.
Strong
hands with good possibilities require aggressive play by raising and
getting
rid of players
who could draw out (bad hands becoming good hands).
Only
if you feel your hand has become second best do you fold.
Marginal
hands that may improve should only be played on the cheap, either
checking or
nominal bet.
Observing
the cards on the table, or discarded cards, to determine how this
affects
your hand,
and reading your opponent’s body language, face and betting strategies,
can work
to your profitable end.
Maximize
losses by not staying in pots too long trying to make every hand a
winner,
and there
is no shame in being bluffed out of a hand; the loose play of the
bluffer will
catch up.
Intelligent players know good folds and good bets.
Catching
a Perfect, pulling a card that sets up your hand perfectly, will carry
you longer in
the game than Drawing Dead to an impossible hand.
Learn
Holdem Poker is followed by a lesson about Position
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