Texas Hold’em Rules – an Idiot’s guide By Thomas Nielsen — on April 7th, @ 13:11 PST Every player is dealt two cards, known as ‘hole cards’ and each player then decides whether to bet or fold their hand, depending on whether they think they will win the hand. The dealer then draws three cards and puts them face-up on the table. In order to start betting in Hold’em, forced bets (known as blinds) are made by the two players immediately clockwise from the dealer button. The person immediately clockwise from the dealer has the small blind, and the next player clockwise has the big blind. Making blind bets is known as posting and this is done before any cards are dealt.

• Texas Holdem River Rules Card Game

Texas Hold 'Em Bonus is a table game which is played heads-up against the dealer and has an optional bonus bet. The game is based on the traditional Texas Hold'em poker game, but differs in that there is no bet after the river card.
GETTING STARTED:
The player starts by making an ante bet in the Ante betting circle. The player may also bet the optional Bonus bet. He will then receive two cards.
BETTING:
When the player receives his two hole cards, the player my decide to fold with no further play losing his ante bet or make a flop bet of 2x the Ante. The dealer then reveals the three-card flop. Now the player may decide to check or make a turn bet equal to the Ante. The dealer then reveals the fourth community card (the turn). Once again the player may decide to check or make a river bet equal to the Ante. The dealer then reveals the fifth and final community card and player and dealer make their best five card poker hand from their own hand and five community cards.
WINNING & LOSING:
If the dealer's hand beats the player's hand, the player's Ante, Flop, Turn, and River bets all lose. If the player and dealer tie, all bets push. If the player's hand beats the dealer's, his Flop, Turn, and River bets win even money. The player also wins even money on the Ante bet if his best hand is a straight or better, otherwise the Ante bet pushes. Lastly, the optional bonus bet pays out based on the pay table below, even if the player loses to the dealer's hand.
BONUS PAYOUT:

Hand	Payout
A-A (Player & Dealer)	1000 to 1
A-A (Player Only)	30 to 1
A-K (Suited)	25 to 1
A-Q or A-J (Suited)	20 to 1
A-K (Unsuited)	15 to 1
K-K or Q-Q or J-J	10 to 1
A-Q or A-J (Unsuited)	5 to 1
10-10 through 2-2 (Pairs)	3 to 1

The order in which Texas Hold’em is dealt is very specific and, assuming you’re playing with a table full of lucid, honest people, never changes. First, you are dealt two hole cards. Then comes the flop, turn and river cards.

The flop

After a round of betting for the hole cards, a card is burned off the top of the deck (meaning discarded without being looked at — this is done in case the top card had somehow been exposed or marked), and three cards are dealt face-up to the center of the table. This is known as the flop and is the start of the community cards on the table — those cards that everyone may incorporate in his hand.

Everyone who has not folded now has a five-card hand — two hole cards combined with the three community cards. A round of betting takes place.

The turn

After the flop betting round, another card is burned from the deck and a fourth community card is exposed. This card is known as the turn (sometimes fourth street).

All players still in the hand now have six cards to choose from to make their best five-card Poker hands. There is another round of betting and one more card yet to be exposed.

The river

A card is burned and the most infamous of community cards, the river (sometimes called fifth street) is dealt. All remaining players have seven cards for selecting their best five-card Poker hand (their two hole cards combined with the five community cards). A round of betting takes place, and the best five-card hand at the table is the winner.

To determine their five-card hand, players may use zero, one, or both of their hole cards in combination with five, four, or three community cards, respectively.

Because a player is required to use at least three community cards to make a hand, there can be no flushes if there are not three cards of the same suit (multiple suits with no flush possibilities based on the current exposed community cards is known as a rainbow). Nor can there be a straight if there aren’t three cards from a five-card sequence (for example, 5-8-9).

Texas Holdem River Rules Card Game

Here, George is playing the board and has a king-high heart flush. John is using one hole card for an ace-high flush, but Ringo is the big winner using both hole cards for a straight flush.