Keep your made hands hidden
Unlike most beginners believe, in poker you do not make your money off the good hands you’re dealt. Statistically, over the long-run everyone gets the same quality cards, provided the dealer or the online poker software is unbiased (which it is in the overwhelming majority of the cases). If you were to make your money [...]
Brick and Mortar
Poker Help: Brick and Mortar
Poker slang for a real physical location for a poker game. It normally refers to a casino or cardroom that has standard poker amenities like tables, dealers, poker chip centers etc. This is different than an online poker room on a poker website.
The Button
Poker Help: The Button
The button is an essential tool for any poker table. It is a small, generally white, acrylic disk which indicates which poker player is the dealer. On a standard poker table the person who has the button in front of them is the player who has to deal the cards. During [...]
Muck
Poker Help: Muck
Muck is a term for the pile of burned playing cards which sits in front of the dealer. In standard poker games once the muck pile reaches a critical mass the cards are re-shuffled and dealt anew. This word can be used as a verb or a noun. For example: “She mucked [...]
Learn How To Play Poker-Online Poker and Live Poker Games
Learn How to Play Poker - Online Poker (Internet Poker) and live Poker Games
This is an online poker guide giving you a basic idea of how to play Texas Hold’em Poker.
The Button Position
Texas hold’em is unique in the poker world in that each of the poker players sitting at the table gets a turn to [...]
Dealer Position
In Texas Hold’em, as in most poker games, the dealer holds the best position for executing effective poker strategy. He can watch how the other poker players are playing their hands, and has the final say after all the other players have laid their poker bets. (During the betting rounds on the flop, turn and [...]
Late Position
Late position in a poker table
When you are in “Late position” (LP) at a poker table during a hand, it generally means you are the hijack (HJ), cut off (CO) or the dealer. Your action (your turn) comes after a significant number of players at the table.
‘Late Position’ advantage in texas hold’em poker
The best strategic [...]
Poker Table Position or Seat
When players refer to a position at a poker table, they are usually referring to their position relative to the dealer button, rather than a physical seat.
Because the dealer button moves around the table after each hand, the physical seat you choose at a table depends only on the type of players seated at the [...]
The Button, Dealer Position
Texas hold’em is unique in the poker world in that each of the poker players sitting at the table gets a turn to be the card dealer.
The card dealer is usually signaled by a button or a place mark. This tool is rotated to another card player in the clockwise direction after every poker hand.
Blinds - Small Blind, Big Blind
Reason for Poker Blinds
In order to make sure there is some action on the pot in each hand in Texas Hold’em there is an initial bet into the pot before any playing cards have been dealt by the small blind and the big blind.
Table Position of the Blinds:
The two players to the left of the [...]