Texas Hold'em Free Poker Book - Chapter 1
WHAT EXACTLY IS TEXAS HOLDEM POKER:
Texas Holdem poker is a 7 card game with a bit of a twist! Up to 10 players sit at a table. Each player is dealt 2 cards down. At this time a round of betting occurs. Then the dealer turns over the “FLOP”. This consists of 3 community cards that each player shares. Then there is another round of betting. After this the dealer turns over another community card called “THE TURN”. Then there is another round of betting! Finally the dealer turns over the last card called “THE RIVER” which makes 5 total community cards. At this time there is a final round of betting. The winner uses his 2 cards along with 3 of the community cards to make the best 5 card poker hand!
SOUNDS EASY:
Well only if you are quite skilled and have a game plan. I will share my game plan in upcoming chapters.Also there is no ante in this game. There are “BLINDS”. In this game the person to the dealers left MUST make a BLIND ½ bet, or “SMALL BLIND” and the person to their left (2 from the dealer) must make a full bet, or”BIG BLIND”.
This works well because for us tight players that only play certain hands, we can fold 80% of the hands without paying a cent! Only those 2 players have to pay! In limit holdem you are only allow to make limited bets at any given moment. For instance, if it is a 5$-$10 game you can only make 5$ bets in the first 2 rounds of betting and $10 bets in the last 2 rounds of betting.
If you ask me that is so boring! However, in TEXAS HOLDEM NO LIMIT POKER the stakes are far different! If you are playing NO LIMIT poker you can bet as much as you have at any given time whenever you want! This makes the game completely different as I will talk about later.
