Texas Hold'em, sometimes called simply Hold'em— is the most popular type of poker today, a game with two pocket and five community cards used by all players when making combinations (a kind of so-called community poker).
History
Johnny Moss, Chill Wills, Amarillo Slim, Jack Binion, Puggy Pearson outside Binion's Horseshoe Casino in 1974
The town of Robstown in Texas is considered to be the official place of the appearance of hold'em.
After the advent of hold'em and its spread across Texas in 1967, the game appeared in Las Vegas. The game was brought to Las Vegas by such famous Texas players as Doyle Brunson, Amarillo Slim and Pretzel Addington.
Addington said that he first saw how hold'em was played in the late 60s. At that time, the game was not yet called Texas Hold'em, but simply Hold'em.
Texas Hold'em was later brought to Europe by Liam Flood and Terry Rogers.
For several years, this game could only be played at the only casino in Vegas — the Golden Nugget Casino.
Game progress
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The game goes as follows:
In some games, all players make a small initial contribution (ante): this increases the size of the pot (the total money on the table) and the activity of the players.
Two players sitting behind the dealer (button, dealer) place blind bets (blinds). Usually, the first one makes half of the minimum bet (small blind), and the second one makes the whole bet (big blind).
Each player receives two cards, in a closed (preflop), a trading circle follows.
Three cards are placed on the table in front of all players, in the open (flop), a trading circle follows.
The fourth card is placed on the table in the open (turn), followed by a trading circle. When playing Limited Hold'em, the fixed bet doubles at this point.
The fifth card is placed on the table, in the open (river). Thus, there are 5 cards on the table, the last round of trading follows.
The goal of the game is to make the best combination by combining any five cards out of seven: five common and two of their own. That is, you can use two, one or none of your cards.
During each trading round, players can perform one of the following actions:
Place a bet (bet). The player who is to the left of the dealer makes the first bet, and he sets the minimum bet in this trading circle.
Equalize the bet (call). Agree with the previous player's bet.
Raise the bet (raise). Bet more than the previous player.
Pass the move (check). You can only do this if there has not been a bet in this trading circle yet.
Exit the game (fold). Fold the cards and lose the money already wagered.
Combinations
To win, a player must either use bidding (betting) to force opponents to throw off cards, or collect a winning combination. The pot of the hand is taken by the player who has the highest combination at the end of the game. You can form a combination of 5 open cards on the board and two cards closed from other players in your hands.
Seniority of combinations in ascending order:
Kicker. The highest card.
Couple. Two cards of the same value.
Two pairs. Two cards of one value, two cards of another value.
Set. Three cards of the same value.
Street. Five cards that are lined up by seniority.
Flash. Five cards of the same suit.
Full house. Three plus two.
Square. Four cards of the same value.
Straight flush. Five cards of the same suit, which are lined up by seniority.
Royal flush. Five cards from 10 to ace of the same suit.
Varieties
There are three main types of Texas Hold 'em:
limited - bets are limited.
with a pot limit — the maximum bet is limited by the size of the bank;
unlimited - the maximum bet is limited by the size of the player's stack.
Casino Hold'em
Casino-hold'em (Eng. Casino Holdem Poker) is a series of poker games against casinos based on Texas Hold'em. A common feature of these games is that the player and the dealer are dealt two pocket cards each, and five cards are put on the table together. The goal of the games is to collect the largest poker combination of 5 cards using your 2 cards and 5 community cards.
