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Betting Rules
There are a couple situations when your
turn comes around. If no one has bet yet (known as being checked
to you), you can either Bet or Check.
Bet: You have the option of
putting money into the pot. If you decide to bet, everyone else must
match what you have bet or they have to fold their hand. People can
also re-raise your bet, but I'll get into that later. The minimum
one can bet usually is the size of the big blind.
Check: When it is your turn
and no one has bet before you, you can choose to not put any money
in the pot either. This is called checking, and is generally done
when either you have a bad hand, can't read your opponents well, or
slow playing a big hand (hoping someone else will bet so you can
raise them). If no one bets after you check, the next card is
revealed and the game goes on.
BUT, if someone bets and it comes around
to you, you have to make a choice...
Fold: Folding is when you
do not want to match the money that was bet into the pot. You are
then forced to fold, and you are out of the hand and can not win any
money. Any money you have put into the pot up to this point is lost.
Call: When you call a bet
you put money equal to that bet into the pot. This lets you stay in
the hand to see the next cards (if there are no more cards to be
dealt, then there is a showdown) unless someone else raises,
then you have to either call that raise, fold, or re-raise.
Raise: When someone bets
you have the choice of putting the money equal to their bet plus
another bet from you on top of it. This puts the other players in a
situation where they have to match the new bet or fold (or
re-raise). Normally the raise has to be at least the size of the
original bet (to prevent people taking all day re-raising
with a cent, or 1 chip). So if someone re-raises your raise, it
still has to be at least the size of the original bet.
Example: Player A bets $1
into a $5 pot, it comes around to you. The minimum you can raise it
is now $1 (making it $2 to play on this hand).
Example 2: Player A bets $3
into a $5 pot, it comes around to you. The minimum you can raise it
is now $3 (making it $6 to play on this hand).
Example 3: Player A bets $2
into a $5 pot, it comes around to you. The minimum you can raise it
now is $2. Player A decides to re-raise, minimum he can re-raise is
$2. (making it $6 to play on this hand)
In No Limit Texas Hold'em there is no
limit how many re-raises that can be done, and no maximum of what
you can bet.
All in: You can choose to
do this if someone bets and it is your turn, or if someone just
checked it to you. This is when you decide to raise will all of your
money. It is a powerful statement at the poker table, since it is
such a huge bet and everyone has to match it to stay in.
Showdown:
If there is more than one player left after all the cards have
been dealt (5 community cards), and everyone has called on the last round of betting
after that card is dealt, then those players showdown their
hands. Whoever is holding the best poker hand wins all the money in
the pot. If there is a tie, then all tying hands split the pot in
equal amounts. The poker room will also take a rake from the pot
before it is distributed to the winner or winners. The rake is the
house's share and is usually a few cents on the dollar.
Rake: When playing online,
generally every hand that passes $1 in pot size gets raked. Rake is
when the house (aka wherever you're playing at) takes a part of the
pot for themselves for hosting the poker event. In most online poker
tables the rake is about 5% of the pot size. So around 5 cents to
every dollar.
Winning by default: If
everyone except one player folds their hand, then that player will
win the pot and get all the money there. There is no need to deal
the other community cards because that player has already won. When
you win you can choose to much your hand (not show the other
players). You always have the right not to show your hand, unless
there is a showdown.
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