How to Play Poker
Hold'em games
Limit Hold'em
The same cards as No Limit Hold'em, but every bet is a set size, so nobody can put you all in with one push.
- King of spades
- Queen of spades
- Your cards
- 2, face down
- Shared cards
- 5 in the middle
- Betting
- Fixed limit
- Who wins
- Best high hand
- In the mix
- HORSE, 8-Game
Same deal as No Limit Hold'em
Two cards each, face down. Then the flop, the turn and the river, with a round of betting after each. You make the best five-card hand from your two cards and the five on the board. If you can play No Limit Hold'em, you already know the deal.
Your cards
- King of spades
- Queen of spades
The board
- Jack of spades
- Ten of diamonds
- Four of clubs
- Nine of hearts
- Two of spades
Small bets, then big bets
A limit game has two sizes, written like $10/$20. Early in the hand you bet the small size; later you bet the big one. The blinds come from the small size: in a $10/$20 game the big blind is usually $10 and the small blind $5.
- Preflop and flop
- Bets and raises are $10, the small bet.
- Turn and river
- Bets and raises are $20, the big bet.
Four bets, then the cap
- $10AnaBets
- $20BenRaises to
- $30CalRe-raises to
- $40AnaCaps it at
Who wins
Board
- Jack of spades
- Ten of diamonds
- Four of clubs
- Nine of hearts
- Two of spades
Kim
- King of spades
- Queen of spades
- King of spades
- Queen of spades
- Jack of spades
- Ten of diamonds
- Nine of hearts
A straight, king high
Wins the pot
Raj
- Jack of hearts
- Ten of clubs
- Jack of hearts
- Jack of spades
- Ten of clubs
- Ten of diamonds
- Nine of hearts
Two pair, jacks and tens