Easy Instructions on How to Play Poker

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Easy Instructions on How to Play Poker

I thought seeing as though I was on the track of where I play, what I do and how to play poker online I would cover the topic. Easy Instructions on how to play poker and also follow this topic with Poker Rules! (I don’t mean rules as in rocks and is awesome even if it is for the record, I mean: THE POKER RULES!).

So how to play poker! That’s what I am writing; let me get back to it. Playing poker at a beginner’s level is fun and easy going on the mind. Learning to play is as easy as soaking water into a sponge BUT the game takes a lifetime to master.

I will cover Texas Hold’em, the game that has taken the world to a poker high!

1. Texas Hold’em has 2 to 10 players per table.

2. You are dealt 2 hole cards (only you can see them), so is everyone else of course

3. Any how to play poker tutorial will first talk about bets. So here goes . There are compulsory bets in a poker game called blinds – Big Blind and Small Blind. The blinds are determined at the start of a game by the highest dealt card. Whoever gets the high card is classed as the dealer, following him is the small blind then the big blind. These blinds are forced at the start of each hand.

4. Each person looks at their cards and depending on how good they are they choose their option: fold, call (the same amount of money as the big blind) raise, (make a bet bigger than the big blind) or re-raise if someone has bet before them. The big blind has the option to check if no player before them (Big Blind is last to take their turn) has risen.

5. The dealer then deals 3 cards onto the poker table for all to see. These are called community cards. The community cards are used by everyone! You don’t take them off the table ;-) you use them to make the best poker hand you can combined with the two cards you have.

6. Another round of check, fold, raise and re-raise occurs as players determine whether they have the best hand or can make the best hand. This is followed by another community card (the fourth called the turn) another round of betting, folding and checking followed by the last community card (the 5^th, called the river).

7. Final bets, checks and folds are made and the remaining players turn over their cards. The best hand wins! It’s as simple as that. (This is how to play poker in very basic terms)

So, what is the best hand? Here are the Poker Hand Rankings!

· Royal Flush - A, K, Q, J, 10 - all of the same suit

· Straight Flush - Any five card sequence in the same suit - 5, 6, 7, 8,9 of diamonds an example

· Four of a Kind (also called quads) – All 4 cards of the same denomination – AAAA as an example

· Full House (also called boat) - Three of a kind combined with a pair – K, K, K, Q, Q as an example

· Flush - Any five cards of the same suit – 5 diamonds as an example but not in a straight form.

· Straight - Five cards in sequence, but not in the same suit - 7,8,9,10,J, of varied suits

· Three of a Kind (also known as trips or a set) – Three cards of the same denomination - 999

· Two Pair – Two Separate Pairs – 88 99 as an example

· One Pair - 77 as an example

· High Card – The highest card wins the hand as no player has even made a pair.

So, out of the hand rankings the great poker hand of them all is A Royal Flush! Have fun learning how to play poker by playing away on a play money table and trying to get one .Be sure to push the PrtSc (Print Screen) button on your keyboard if you get 1. The button is located between F12 and Pause Break. You can simply push this button and open paint from your accessories and paste the image of your royal flush to keep for a life time. If you get one live, be sure to get a photo taken, they don’t come too often!

That all for now about how to play poker . Promise to write more on this topics soon :-)