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 [...]
How Not to Get Kicked out of an Online Poker Room: Online Poker Etiquette and Poker Tips
People act differently in online poker rooms they would at a poker table. The anonymity of internet poker tables, and the fact that people are more comfortable writing than speaking, leads people to act in ways they would never act in the “real” world. Online poker is often the scene of conduct you won’t find [...]
How to play Texas Hold’em Poker Online
Success and popularity of online poker
Online poker has become increasingly popular and highly successful.
In recent years Online poker, especially online versions of Texas Hold’em, has exponentially increased in popularity and success. Millions of dollars are made (and lost) in digital poker rooms around the world every day. The convenience of playing poker and making money [...]
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 [...]