Poker is a card game that is played all over the world in casinos or online. Then rules are the same in both forms of the game. There are four actions, which a player has to use and these actions include call the bet, raise the bet, fold, or check. Many variants of the game are available online but most of them have similar rules and features. A player has to make hands out of five
cards and the cards with the highest rank make the player wins.
Principles of poker
A game of poker can be played between 2 to 14 players. But usually, the maximum number of players is 6, 7, or 8. There is a pot in which coins are kept and all the players compete to win that pot. Coins are put into the pot as per the bet made. The winner is declared on the basis of the card ranking or bet made. The player whose cards have the highest rank during the showdown wins the pot. In the case of bet, if nobody calls the bet made by a player, a showdown is not needed and the player wins the pot. Now let us know something more about poker. We will start with the cards.
Cards
There are 52 cards in a deck having four suites, which are spades, hearts, diamonds, and clubs.
Each suite has 13 cards ranging from K to A in the following sequence
- K
- Q
- J
- 10
- 9
- 8
- 7
- 6
- 5
- 4
- 3
- 2
- A
Here K is the highest and A is the lowest card.
The rankings are made with five cards in a sequence.
Deal
A poker game is started with a deal in which a dealer deals the cards starting from the player sitting on his left and ends on himself. All the players get a chance of dealing the cards. In order to select the first dealer, any player can deal with the card and dealing is done till the time a jack appears. The player who gets the jack becomes the first dealer. Before dealing with the cards, they need to be shuffled. Any player can do the shuffling but the last shuffling has to be done by the dealer. After shuffling, he has to give the deck to the right player to make a cut. In case, he refuses to make a cut, any other player is given the deck for making the cut.
In casinos and clubs, there is a round disc, which is passed to each player for betting purposes. The casinos charge a fee, which is based on the hour the players are sitting on their seats. Some casinos charge a fee, which is equal to 5% or more and the percentage is based on the pot.
Wrapping Up
These are the ways in which cards are dealt with the players and every player in the game gets a chance of dealing with the card. Dealing starts from the left of the dealer and ends on himself. Shuffling is done before dealing and dealer can ask a player sitting to his right to make a cut.