How to play Poker (Texas HoldEm)

1. When playing Texas HoldEm poker, every player is dealt two cards face down – these are called your 'hole cards'. Then there is
a round of betting where you can Check, Bet or Fold. This stage of the game is known as pre-flop and what you should do is
dependent on those hole cards, or starting hand.
2. When all the betting has finished three shared cards are dealt 3. After this there is another round of betting, then a fourth
face up in the middle of the table. This is called the flop. shared card – called the turn – is dealt. 

4. There is another round of betting then a final shared card –

called the river – and a final round of betting.

Your best Texas Holdem hands will be made by using your hole 5. There are two ways a hand can end. One is when the
cards and the five cards in the middle to make the best possible players in a hand turn over their hole cards and the
five card poker hand. So, for example, if you have 9-9 and the player with the best hand wins. This is known as a
shared cards are 9-9-A-5-2 you have four-of-a-kind. If the shared showdown.
cards were J-Q-K-7-2 you would only have two nines. Sometimes The other is that someone will bet enough that everyone
the best texas hold em hand is made by the five shared cards on else folds. This is how most hands end in Texas Hold'em
their own. If they were 10-10-10-10-A and you had 9-9 your hole and that's the magic of the game – you don't always need
cards would not play as there is a four-of-a-kind of higher value the best hand to win.
already showing.
Summary: Firstly, you are dealt your hole cards. Then there is a round of betting. Then the players remaining see a flop. Then there
is another round of betting. Then you see a turn card. Then another round of betting. Then a final river card. Then one more round of
betting. The best five card hand wins. Clear? Excellent.

Hand Ranking
Straight Flush
Royal Flush Five cards of the same suit in
It consists of the ace, king, queen, sequence. In a tie, the highest
jack and ten of a single suit. rank at the top of the sequence
wins.
Four of a Kind Full House
Four cards of the same rank, and one Three cards of the same rank,
side card or ‘kicker’. In a tie, the player and two cards of a different,
with the highest side card wins. matching rank. In a tie, the
highest three matching cards
wins.
Flush Straight
Five cards of the same suit, not in Five non-suited cards in
sequence. In a tie, the player holding sequence. In a tie, the highest
the highest ranked card wins. ranking card at the top of the
sequence wins.
Three of a Kind Two Pair
Three cards of the same rank, and two Two cards of matching rank, two
unrelated side cards. In a tie, the player cards of different matching rank,
with the highest, and if necessary, and one kicker. In a tie, the
second-highest side card wins. highest kicker wins.
Pair High Card
Two cards of matching rank. In a tie, Any hand that does not qualify
the player with the highest, and if under the categories listed. In a
necessary, second or third-highest side tie, the highest card wins.
card wins.