 How to play a hand of Texas Hold'em
This is for those of you eho are brand new to the concept of poker and dont even know how a hand works!!
Playing The Game
Just being able to play this amazing game is an art in itself. It sounds very hard whilst learning but after playing you will find that it is actually a piece of cake. (For the Basics at least.)
Basic Idea of the Game:
The basic idea of No-Limit Texas Hold’em is to play your hand without giving any Hint as to what you may be holding. And then win the pot by either aggressively pushing your Opponent(s) out of the pot, or Winning at a showdown.
How to play:
Playing poker is like playing a well-played game of chess. You must outwit your opponents and then checkmate them to steal their chips. First of all I Suggest that look up the following words:
· Button
· Big Blind
· Small Blind
· Flop
· Turn
· River
· Community
· Action
· Dealer
· Pocket
· Bet
· Check
· Fold
Now that you are aware of the basic Terminology, you will be able to learn first hand how to play the game.
Games play Starts with a small White ‘Puck’ with the letter ‘D’ or Word ‘Dealer’ Marked on it. This indicates that the player with this token is the Hypothetical Dealer for this hand, the player to the left of the dealer gets the first card. (After each hand the Button mover Clockwise 1 position.) The player to the immediate Left of the dealer has to pay a forced amount of money, called the Small Blind. And the person to the left of the small blind has to pay the Big Blind. The blinds are set amounts of money that have to be paid each hand to ensure that there is money in the pot to be won. Play then starts with the person left to the Big Blind (BB.) They can either: Check, Raise or Fold their cards, depending on the strength of their Pocket cards.
The betting, calling, checking and folding goes round in a clockwise manor until all of the players have called to the same amount.
HAND EXAMPLE: there are 5 players
Player 1 Bets 300
Player 2 Folds
Player 3 Calls
Player 4 raises an extra 500
Player 5 folds
Now it goes back to player 1 who has to decide if he wants to call the extra amount of money or fold has cards. In this case player 1 and player 3 both call and it goes to the flop.
On the flop the same thing happens again. Accept this time the player to the left of the dealer makes the first play. (If they are still in the pot, if not in the pot it goes to the next person and so forth.)
Now comes the turn, followed by the river. With a round of betting in between.
If there are still 2 or more people in the pot. You flip your Hole cards to see who wins the pot. The winner is the person with the best 5-Card Poker hand. | 
