Poker

Basics of the game

What is poker?

Poker is a card game for players to bet to win.

Each player at the table is dealt two cards face down.

Each player then uses those two cards (or one or none of those cards) in combination with five shared community cards placed down by the dealer to make their best-five card poker hand.

The player with the best hand (or who gets all of the other players to fold) wins the pot! Simple as that.

Here’s how a basic poker game works:The dealer deals everyone two cards starting with the player on his left and ending on himself/herself. The player on the dealer’s left is the first player to act and they have a choice to:

Bet (put their chips forward)

Check (doing nothing basically).

If anyone decides to bet then the rest of the players have the option to:

Call (Match the amount of the raise into the pot)

Fold (Give up the hand and all the chips they’ve already put in the pot)

Raise (Put even more chips into the pot)

This continues until everyone has called or all the chips are in the middle.