Variation of the card game of poker
Texas hold 'em Texas hold 'em involves community cards available to all players. Alternative 🍐 names Hold 'em Type Community card poker Players 2+, usually 2–10 Skills Probability, psychology, game theory, strategy Cards 52 Deck 🍐 French Rank (high→low) A K Q J 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 (A when used in 🍐 a Straight) Play Clockwise Chance Medium
Texas hold 'em (also known as Texas holdem, hold 'em, and holdem) is one of 🍐 the most popular variants of the card game of poker. Two cards, known as hole cards, are dealt face down 🍐 to each player, and then five community cards are dealt face up in three stages. The stages consist of a 🍐 series of three cards ("the flop"), later an additional single card ("the turn" or "fourth street"), and a final card 🍐 ("the river" or "fifth street"). Each player seeks the best five-card poker hand from any combination of the seven cards: 🍐 the five community cards and their two hole cards. Players have betting options to check, call, raise, or fold. Rounds 🍐 of betting take place before the flop is dealt and after each subsequent deal. The player who has the best 🍐 hand and has not folded by the end of all betting rounds wins all of the money bet for the 🍐 hand, known as the pot. In certain situations, a "split pot" or "tie" can occur when two players have hands 🍐 of equivalent value. This is also called "chop the pot". Texas hold 'em is also the H game featured in 🍐 HORSE and HOSE.
Objective [ edit ]
In Texas hold 'em, as in all variants of poker, individuals compete for an amount 🍐 of money or chips contributed by the players themselves (called the pot). Because the cards are dealt randomly and outside 🍐 the control of the players, each player attempts to control the amount of money in the pot based on the 🍐 hand they are holding,[1] and on their prediction as to what their opponents may be holding and how they might 🍐 behave.
