How do you play Texas holdem poker? please include details.?

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How do you play Texas holdem poker? please include details.?

Answer 1

The best way you can find out is looking at the official rules.  It's vitally important you learn the hand rankings.  However, here's the quick version.  One deck of 52 cards is used, and two cards are dealt to each player face down.  The players may look at their own cards.

There is a small blind and big blind for each hand, the small blind paying 1/2 the blind price (think of it as an ante) and the big blind paying the full blind price.  Each player after the big blind looks at his/her cards and decides if they want to stay in the hand by matching the current bet (which at this point is the big blind price) or not play the hand and "fold".  Also, if they think their two cards (called pocket cards) are good enough, they can raise the blind price.  Each player after has to match the current bet.  

Once everyone has determined if they want to stay in the hand or not, the dealer lays out 3 "community cards" face up.  Another round of betting starts where players decide to call (match) the current bet, fold (quit the hand), or raise the bet.  After bets are placed, the dealer deals a fourth community card, followed by another round of betting, and then a fifth community card followed by the last round of betting.  Once all betting is done, there is a "showdown".  The players still in the hand play for all of the money in the middle by playing their best 5 cards.  There are 7 cards on the table each player can use (2 pocket cards initially dealt facedown and the 5 community cards dealt faceup).  

Each player can pick the best 5 cards to make their final hand (however, any cards they pick to make their hand in the community pile can be used by any other player as well).  There is no limit on how many community cards you may use to make your final hand but you can only use a total of 5 of the 7 cards.  Based on the hand rankings I mentioned earlier to look up, that determines who wins the hand and the pot.

After the hand is done, cards are reshuffled and a new round plays exactly like the previous until players are out of money and lose.