About Texas Hold’em

Poker tournaments in Texas Hold’em, initially the players are to place the required blinds and all players receive two down cards which are hidden till the time of the final showdown. These are known as the holes or the poker card. Successively the first two cards are dealt followed by betting. Here the player can cal raise or fold like the regular poker games. After the betting round the top card of the deck is discarded known as burning. It’s a prevention method against cheating. This is followed by turning over of three cards from the deck known as the community cards, also called the flop a fourth card is hence dealt after the betting known as the turn card. Lastly after another round of betting the fifth card is dealt known as the river card. A last round of betting is subsequently followed.