📌 Quick Info
- Name of the Game: Texas Hold’em Poker
- Number of Players: 2 to 10
- Decks Required: 1 Standard 52-card deck (no Jokers)
🎯 Objective
To make the best 5-card hand using your 2 hole cards and 5 community cards OR win by making all other players fold.
🛠️ What You Need
- 1 Deck of 52 cards
- Poker chips (or coins)
- Table space
- Dealer button (any coin or token)
- Small & big blind markers
🔄 How to Play – Step by Step
▶️ Setup
- Shuffle the deck.
- Choose a dealer.
- Player left of dealer posts the small blind (e.g. ₹10).
- Next player posts the big blind (e.g. ₹20).
- Deal 2 cards face-down to each player (hole cards).
▶️ Rounds
1. Pre-Flop
Players look at their hole cards and choose to Fold, Call, or Raise.
2. Flop
Three community cards are placed face-up. New round of betting.
3. Turn
A fourth community card is dealt. Another round of betting.
4. River
Fifth and final community card is revealed. Final round of betting.
5. Showdown
Remaining players reveal their hands. The best 5-card hand wins the pot.
🧠 Game Scenarios
- Royal Flush: Your cards: A♠ K♠; Table: Q♠ J♠ 10♠ – You have the best hand.
- Full House: Your cards: Q♦ Q♥; Table: Q♠ 7♣ 7♠ – You have Three Queens and Two Sevens.
- High Card: Your cards: 4♣ 9♠; Table: A♥ 10♦ 3♠ – Your highest card is Ace.
📜 Rules
- Use any 5-card combo from 2 hole cards + 5 community cards.
- Blinds rotate each hand.
- Act in clockwise order.
- Fold to quit the hand and save your chips.
⚙️ Optional / House Rules
- No-Limit: Players can go “all-in” anytime.
- Fixed-Limit: Raise amounts are capped.
- Time Limit: Use a 30-second timer per move.
🧮 Card Rankings (Best to Worst)
| Rank | Hand Type | Example | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Royal Flush | A♠ K♠ Q♠ J♠ 10♠ | Top 5 cards in same suit |
| 2 | Straight Flush | 4♣ 5♣ 6♣ 7♣ 8♣ | Five in a row, same suit |
| 3 | Four of a Kind | J♦ J♣ J♥ J♠ 9♣ | Four cards same value |
| 4 | Full House | K♠ K♣ K♦ 3♣ 3♠ | Three + Pair |
| 5 | Flush | 2♦ 5♦ 9♦ J♦ K♦ | All same suit, not in order |
| 6 | Straight | 6♠ 7♦ 8♣ 9♥ 10♠ | Five in a row, mixed suits |
| 7 | Three of a Kind | 8♠ 8♣ 8♦ 2♠ Q♣ | Three of one card |
| 8 | Two Pair | J♣ J♥ 4♣ 4♠ 2♠ | Two pairs |
| 9 | One Pair | 10♠ 10♦ 6♣ 3♠ K♦ | One pair |
| 10 | High Card | A♣ 10♦ 8♠ 6♣ 3♦ | Highest card wins |
🎮 Example Game (4 Players)
- Dealer: Arun
- SB (₹10): Beena
- BB (₹20): Chitra
- Player 4: Deepak
Hole Cards:
Arun: 10♠ J♠
Beena: Q♦ Q♠
Chitra: 5♠ 6♣
Deepak: A♥ K♥
Flop: 9♠, Q♣, K♦
Turn: 10♥
River: 3♣
Arun makes a straight and wins the hand.
📚 History & Origin
- Originated in Robstown, Texas, early 1900s.
- Popularized in Las Vegas during the 1960s.
- Made famous by the World Series of Poker (WSOP).
- Gained global fame with online poker in the 2000s.