While many card players may be well versed at understanding most variations of games, it takes more than knowing how to play poker when involved in a game of Texas Holdem poker. Learning how to play poker also means learning how to convincingly lie or bluff, bluffing online is a lot harder than real life games but there are a few tips you can learn.
As this particular game has grown in popularity, even advancing to the professional level, many folks who believe they know how to play poker find themselves lost in a river of cards, playing with two hidden cards and five face-up on the table, scrambling to make the best poker hand they can out of the available cards. When you first sit down for a game of Texas Holdem, even knowing how to play poker can make the game a little confusing. Basically, the dealer gives each player seven cards with which to create the best five card poker hand they can make. The fun comes from the five shared or community cards which can also be used by all of the players in the game.
To begin, each person in the game is dealt two cards face down, known as his or her pocket cards or the hole cards. After an initial round of betting the...