POKER in 5 Minutes | Quick Poker Guide (Texas Hold'em Style)

[0:00]The most popular version of poker is Texas Hold'em, where the goal is to create the strongest five-card poker hand using a combination of your whole cards and the five community cards. Texas Hold'em is best played with six to ten players, but I wouldn't recommend starting with less than four players. The object of Texas Hold'em is winner takes all, meaning only one player wins all the chips at the end. Rounds are won by the player who has the best poker combination or if all but one player has folded. This is a betting game and here's what you'll need to play: a new 52 card French suited deck, betting tokens or chips, position markers and a timer or an app for betting blinds. Each round will follow this order: set up, blinds, dealing, and then our betting rounds, the pre-flop, the flop, the turn, the river. Finally, we have the showdown, and then the winner collects the winnings. After the winnings have been collected, we repeat this process. Unless all but one player folds, there is a showdown, which means the remaining players show their cards. Whoever has the highest poker combination based on the five community cards and any of their whole cards wins. To join the game, all players must put in a certain amount of money to convert into chips. If our buy in is 20 dollars, we give the role of the banker to someone and they turn our buy in cash into 20 dollars worth of chips. Okay, our set up milestone is complete. We have our chips and we know the positioning. After somebody's volunteered to start as the dealer for the first round, we place the dealer disc in front of them. Directly to the left of the dealer, the first is the small blind, the next is the big blind. These indicate that these players are forced to make an initial bet, even if they don't want to play this round. You may have heard of this as ante in, which it is. We'll start our game with a big blind of 20 cents, meaning if you want to play, you have to anti up or put 20 cents into the game. The small blind must put up half the amount of the big blind, in this case, 10 cents. They can decide if they want to continue playing by adding another 10 cents on their turn. None of the other players put in money until the cards have been dealt. Before the deal, the dealer would have shuffled the cards and the player to their right could choose to cut the cards to ensure no funny business. Now we're on to the next stage of Hold'em, the deal. The dealer deals one card to each player starting clockwise with the small blind player first and then themselves last. They then deal a second card to each player in the same order. These two cards are called the whole cards. They are meant only for the player who received them and make sure no one else sees your whole cards. All players can look at these cards now and decide if they want to play. Let's say the under the gun player likes their card. In this case they have an ace and a nine and they think that's strong enough to play. They have two main options: one, they can call. Calling means the player is willing to continue with the current cards without raising the stakes. That means they put in the current bid amount, which in this case is the big blind of 20 cents. If they do this, play goes to the next player. The player could have also raised the stakes. This means that they would call the big blind and then place more chips in front of them. They announce the amount they want to raise, making sure that everyone at the table can see the raised chips. So if instead of 20 cents, they could put in 40 cents. If the player did not like their cards, they can fold, meaning they don't have to add any chips, but they fold their cards and are out for this round. The pre-flop continues with all other players either raising, calling, or folding. After the pre-flop betting, the dealer pushes all the bet chips into the middle pot, and now begins the flop. The flop refers to the first community cards that are dealt face up on the table. These cards are available to all players in the game to combine with their private hole cards to make the best possible five-card poker hand. Before placing these three community cards down, the dealer discards the top card from the deck. You do this to help prevent cheating by ensuring that no one accidentally saw that top card. Then the next three cards are dealt face up in the center of the table. This is the flop. Once the flop is on the table, another round of betting occurs, starting with the player directly to the left of the dealer button who's still in the hand. If you folded, you're out of the hand. Once this round of betting has concluded, the dealer moves the newly played chips, if any, into the pot. Now that betting has concluded for the flop, we begin the turn. Burn a card again into the muck pile and then they turn. After the turn card is revealed, another round of betting occurs, starting with the player directly to the left of the dealer button who's still in the hand. After betting on the turn is complete, the game moves to the final round. Now comes the river, the river. The dealer once again burns a card from the top of the deck. The dealer then deals the final community card face up, and this is called the river card. After the river card is revealed, the final round of betting occurs, starting with the player directly to the left of the dealer button who's still in the game. This player. Betting works the same in this round. If a player has raised the bid, all other players must either fold, match, or raise. If two or more players remain, there's a showdown where players reveal their whole cards to determine the winner of the pot based on the best five card hand using any of the combination of their whole cards and the five community cards. So we take our best five cards, a flush here is a two, four, seven, king, plus our one card. So there's six does add to that and creates a flush and my 10 does as well, but since my 10 card is higher, that makes it a better flush. So I get to collect all of the chips. And after the round is complete, we move the buttons. So the big blind will go one space, the small blind will go one space and the dealer will go one space. And the game repeats. And those are the basics to poker, Texas Hold'em style, but poker is no basic game. For complete details, tips, and play through, check out playing games ultimate Hold'em poker video, right there.