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Learn how to play poker
Poker is a card game where two to ten people sit around a table, deal cards from a deck of 52, and place bets that accumulate into a pot as the game progresses. The best poker hand wins the pot.
The poker cards are ranked from high to low in the following order: Ace, King, Queen, Jack, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2. Aces are ALWAYS high. Aces are worth more than Kings which are worth more than Queens which are worth more than Jack, and so on. The cards are also separated into four suits. The suits are:
Clubs
Spades
Hearts
Diamonds
The ranking of poker hands based on probability starting from the highest are as follows.
There are 2,598,960 possible combinations of cards in a poker hand you can be dealt.
In brackets below next to the ranking of hands, are 1st the number of possible hands of that rank in 2,598,960 possible combinations, and 2nd your chances of getting one in percentage probability:
Royal Flush (4 possible hands in 2,598,960. Chance to get one: 0.000154%)
Straight Flush (36 possible hands in 2,598,960. Chance to get one: 0.00139%)
Four of a Kind (624 possible hands in 2,598,960. Chance to get one: 0.0240%)
Full House (3744 possible hands in 2,598,960. Chance to get one: 0.144%)
Flush (5108 possible hands in 2,598,960. Chance to get one: 0.197%)
Straight (10,200 possible hands in 2,598,960. Chance to get one: 0.392%)
Three of a Kind (54912 possible hands in 2,598,960. Chance to get one: 2.11%)
Two Pair (123,552 possible hands in 2,598,960. Chance to get one: 4.75%)
Pair (1,098,240 possible hands in 2,598,960. Chance to get one: 42.26%)
High Card (1,302,540 possible hands in 2,598,960. Chance to get one: 50.12%)
Very Basic rules:
Players bet into the pot in the middle of the table and it is done in turn clockwise.
Only after one player places a bet the real betting starts. Each player in turn can either 'Call', 'Raise' or 'Fold'. To fold is to pass or drop out of the round and not play. To call means willing to match the bet, and the same amount must be placed on the pot. To raise means to match the bet and add an extra bet.
If there are no more raises and all the cards have been dealt, then it is the end of the round. Everyone opens his closed cards and the highest hand wins the pot.
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