How to play poker?

 

Poker is perhaps the most popular card game of all. A game that we can even play online so if you want to learn how to play poker, pay attention to this guide of steps that we explain below.

 

The game of poker

 

Traditionally, poker was thought of as a game for a number of players ranging from 2 to 7, but ideally the perfect number would be at least 6 o 7. However, some variations can be played by more than seven players, while others Sometimes (in tournaments especially) fewer players are required. It is also known that poker is played in a clockwise direction.

 

In Poker, unless there are particular regional variations, there is an international standard that stipulates the use of 52 playing cards, and in most of its multiple versions there are no jokers.

 

The value of the cards

 

The value of the cards, from top to bottom, is A, K, Q, J, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2. In some circumstances, the ace can be used as a low card. , under Two.

 

Poker is normally played for money, but it is preferable to use chips for convenience during real games. They usually come in different cuts, sometimes labeled with the numbers 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 500, and sometimes in colors like white, red, blue, the values of which must be agreed. Players buy chips at the cash register and then exchange them for money at the end of each tournament or game.

 

Having established the basics about poker, we can now explain to you, step by step, how to play poker.

 

Steps to play poker:

 

Generally speaking, a round of poker is played as follows:

 

1. Players place an ante, if required by the current game, by placing some of their chips in a common central space known as the pot.

 

2. The dealer distributes the cards to the players.

 

3. Players look at their cards and have the opportunity to increase their bet, increasing it with new chips to add to the pot. If the bet has increased, all other players must either call or abandon the hand and fold, discarding their cards and abandoning the chips they previously paid.

 

4. Players who have not retired are called active players. When all active players have helped to match the increased bet by paying the additional chips in the pot, they have reached the end of the first betting round. According to the variant played, additional cards can be asked or exchanged, after which there will be another round of betting, and so on.

 

5. When the last betting round is over, all active players will reveal their cards, and whoever has the best five-card hand wins the pot. It is fun to observe that if at any time only one player remains active, that player will automatically win the pot without necessarily having to show their cards.

 

6. The objective of poker is obviously to win money and for this we have to have the best five-card hand in the confrontation. Therefore one way to win for sure is to convince all the other players to fold so the possibility of bluffing is created. If everyone thinks you probably have a good hand, when you raise the stakes they may prefer to stop playing rather than add chips to a pot that they will likely lose. If all your opponents fold, you automatically win, even if your hand may be much worse than the others.

 

 

Value of poker hands

 

Of course, you need to know what hands the others are playing. Let's start by specifying that a poker hand is always made up of five cards, although in some variations you may have more than five cards to choose the best possible, but in this case all unused cards will be irrelevant for comparison purposes.

 

In standard poker, except for a few regional variations, the value of the cards from highest to lowest is as follows:

 

• Straight flush: Five consecutive cards of the same suit. The ace can be counted high to make the highest type of royal flush, which is AKQJ-10 of one suit, sometimes known as a Royal Flush. It can be low to do Ace (5-4-3-2-A), but not high and low at the same time (for example, 2-AKQJ is not valid).

 

• Poker: Four cards of the same rank and another card, for example 9-9-9-9-Q.
• Three cards of the same rank plus a pair of cards of another rank, such as 5-5-5-KK, which would be described as "Five full house of kings."

 

• Flush: A scale made up of five cards of the same suit (not all consecutive, otherwise it would be a royal flush).

 

• Straight: Five consecutive cards in a row, not all of the same suit. The highest is AKQJ-10 and instead an Ace can be considered the lowest to form the lowest 5-4-3-2-A scale, which is sometimes called a wheel. An Ace cannot be on a scale, for example 4-3-2-AK is not a straight line.

 

• Three of a kind: Three cards of the same rank and two cards of various kinds: for example 7-7-7-10-6. This is also known as a triplet.

 

• Double Pair: Two cards of the same rank, two cards of a second rank and one card of a third place, for example JJ-3-3-8.

 

• Pair: Two cards of the same rank and three cards of various kinds: for example QQA-8-7.
• Highest card or Nothing: A hand that does not fall into the previous categories can be considered due to the presence of the highest card (High card) or, sometimes, Nothing (No pair), that is, five cards of different value, without any of these consecutive.

 

 

Every hand of a higher type beats any hand of a lower type. When comparing two hands of the same type, the ranking is determined by the value of the individual cards. 

 

In this sense, it is appropriate to consider mainly the value of the cards that make up the highest value that is compared first, if these are equal, the value of all the other cards will be compared. Ultimately, when two hands are equal, the cards with the highest value are compared before the others.

 

Note that in standard poker, all four suits are all the same, and hands are made up of only five cards. Therefore, if two players meet with five of the same cards and only differ in suit, there will be a tie and they must share the winnings.

 

Tips for playing poker

 

1. Before starting a game of poker, you must be clear and decide which of the poker variants you want to play and which bet is at stake.

 

2. If you play in a casino or an online tournament, these decisions have already been made by the host structure and by sitting at a table you accept both the type of game and the bet.

 

3. The same can be said if you participate in a preset game organized privately: it is necessary to ask what variant of poker we will play and the amount of bet and respect it. If you regularly play with the same group of people, you have probably already solved these problems if you always play the same way, so there is no need to debate.

 

4. However, if new players want to join your group, it is important to make sure that everyone understands the house rules and gambles from the beginning.

 

 

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