Nowadays Texas Hold Poker game is one of the most popular kind of poker in the world. Most of the people take it as a great entertainment, but every year more and more people becomes professional players. Surely because, as the experienced players say- Texas Hold Poker is the game of art not luck, and the skills largely decide about the victory in a long term playing. There are some basic rules of Texas Hold Poker below.

The aim of he game.

The aim of the game is to create the best five cards order out of seven. We establish the order of two cards, which we receive at the beginning, and the order of five which will be put on the table by card distributor.

Blind bets

Before the deal chosen players put the blind bets/ blinds/. Two players on the left of the dealer/ the person deling with the cards/ bet suitably small and big blind. They are the only ones who pay the money to the stake before hand. Blinds stakes depend on which table we are on.

Dealer.

In Texas Hold Poker croupier starts handing the cards from the player who has the 'D'letter symbol. This symbol informs which of the players is the distributor. In this kind of game cards are being distributed by our croupier / computer/, but the player with 'D' symbol acts as he was the croupier. Cards are handed like in offline game. All the players are the croupier in turn clockwise.

The course of game.

The dealer always hands cards, starts with the player sitting closest to his left side. Card are being dealt clockwise – around the table, includind every single poker player. Everyone gets one card first, and then another one, which they do not come out. The bidding round is always started by the person sitting on the left of the player with big blind. This player cannot check, he can only fold, call or raise the stake of big blind.

Bidding goes round the table, includes every single player. Everyone can choose: fold, call or raise the stake untill one of the players called big blind. If nobody raised the stake, he has got the right to check / going in with the bet of big blind/ or to raise the stake.

Flop.

After the fitst bidding the dealer puts three cards on the table t everyone to see them, so-called community cards. Configurating them with the cards in hands, every player can create his own order. At this stage of the game we have got the information not only about our own cards but also about the quality of the joint three. Decision we have to make up is probabbly the most important one in the whole game.

After the flop was distributed there is another round of bidding. It starts fro m the player who i the closest one to the distributor. He can check or bet. If any of the players decides to bet, all the rest cannot use the option of checking in the round of bidding – they can only fold, bet or raise the stake.

Turn.

After the second round of bidding is finished there is another card on the table, the fourth one visible for everyone – turn. Turn is extremely important round of bidding in Texas Hold. The stake of the bets raises at the time. There is a limit to raise the stake only up till three. We can use all six cards to create our best order. Bidding also starts with the player closest to the dealer and goes around the table clockwise.

River.

After the bidding the river / fifth card/ is being uncovered. There are three cards of flop, fourth card – turn and the fifth one – river on the table. At the moment there are five cards lying on the table and two in every players' hand. Another round f bidding starts from the first staying in game player on the left of the distributor. Players can check, call, raise the stake or fold.

The most important at this stage is of the game are the abilities of the possibility to carry on with the game with the average orders of cards which still have a chance to win, but on the other hand to get rid of the cards in the right moment when we are convinced we lost. After the bidding is finished all the players put their card down on the table and based on the hierarchy of the cards the winner is specified.

The winner does not have to show all his cards if he won because all the others folded.

After the winner is announcedthe game starts again. The 'D' symbol goes one place forward where all the players sitting on his left side call small and big blind.