Learn how to play online poker by reading and practising the specific rules
listed below. These rules and the ranks of the hands aren't complicated to
remember but it requires rigirous practice and a shrap eye to be constantly
successful. Pay attention, and you could win easily.
Poker is generally played with a standard deck of 52 cards, though you could
run into versions of poker played with less or more cards. The regular deck
consists of these thirteen different ranked cards: Ace, King, Queen, Jack, 10,
9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2. Each of these cards comes in four different suits:
Clubs, Diamonds, Hearts, Spades. One important thing to remember is that no
suit is stronger than the other.
Poker players place a set sum, that is decided on before the game begins, onto
the table, which informs the others that they are participating in this round.
They are given five cards then the one seated at the dealer's left begins.
He can either check if no one has bet or decide to forgo betting. If this is
the second round, and bets have been made previously, then to stay in the game
he has to match the bet or raise the amount. Raising means adding a sum more
than than the bet total. One can also fold the cards and leave this poker
round, but all money is lost.
When all the cards have been dealt and no one wishes to raise, the cards are
revealed and the highest hand takes home the poker pot.
Online Poker Hands
Listed from top to bottom, here is the ranking order of poker hands:
- Royal Flush: (Any suit) five cards of the same suit but they must be from the then through to the Ace.
- Straight Flush - (Any suit) five cards of the same suit but ordered by sequence.
- Four of a Kind - four cards of the same number or face.
- Full House - three cards of the same number or face and two cards of the same.
- Flush - five cards of the same suit.
- Straight - five cards ordered sequentially.
- Three of a Kind - three cards of the same number or face.
- Two Pair - two pairs of cards of the same number or face.
- Pair - two cards of the same number or face.
- High Card - A nice way to say 'nothing'.
Remember, practice, practice and then practice some more to sharpen your poker
skills to win money.
