As Mike Sexton says, easy to play, hard to master. It is a very difficult game to play really well and to consistently win money. Once you learn the rank of hands and play a few hands it will become a very easy game to play. That is the basics of the game in a nutshell. After the last round of betting hands are turned face up and ranked.Make the best ranking 5 card poker hand you can with your 2 cards and the 5 community cards.There is a fifth and final community dealt face up, called the river.A fourth community card is dealt face up on the table, called the turn.
Three community cards are dealt face up on the table, called the flop.Each player is dealt two cards face down.Here are the bare basics of how to play Texas Hold’em poker. Texas Hold’em is a simple poker game to learn how to play.
