Texas Holdem Poker
If there is a card game that has reached a global dimension in contemporary times, it is undoubtedly poker in the Texas hold'em version. This game, in fact, no more than twenty years ago was mainly known in the united states, while in the rest of the world it was known only to a small number of fans. The advent of online poker on a global scale and, for some years, the transmission of tournaments on generalist tv networks have, it should be said, changed the cards on the table and allowed Texas hold'em to probably become the game of most played cards in the world , especially via the internet.
Texas hold'em is also known as texas poker or simply hold'em and is the main type of community card poker. The aim of the game, in fact, is to achieve the highest score using five cards to choose from between your two pocket cards and the five community cards. There is no definite limit to the use of community cards , so each player can use all five or just three, depending on their convenience. A whole deck of cards is used to play Texas hold'em, for a total of 52 cards this means that up to 10 players can sit at one table.
There are various versions of the game which differ in betting limits. In particular we talk about no limit you play without betting limits. This formula is the most used in major international tournaments. Pot limit each bet must not exceed the size of the pot at that particular moment. Limit typical variant of real casinos, it provides a maximum of three raises for each spin and fixed bets of predefined value that are doubled on the occasion of the turn and river, that is to say the last two betting rounds.
As far as betting is concerned, each hand has several rounds and each round ends when all players have made their move either by leaving the hand or by drawing the highest bet among those placed by the other players. The possible actions that the players can take in turn are four Check it is equivalent to a sort of chip and with it in practice the player does not place any bets but passes the turn to the next player. You can only check if other players have not already made a bet in this case, the player who checked will have to choose one of the following actions. Call it is equivalent to our i see, that is with the call the bet placed by another player is tied. Raise it is the raise, or answer to an opponent's bet by betting a higher amount in turn. The other players at this point can decide whether to fold, make the call by paying the difference or call a further raise. Fold with this action the hand is abandoned. Obviously, the money staked up to that point can no longer be recovered.
