Texas Holdem Poker River Flop
In Texas Hold’em, there are five rounds to a game: Pre-Flop, Flop, Turn, River, and Showdown. After the Dealer has passed out two cards to everyone, the player clockwise to the Right Blind has the option to fold, call or raise the previous bet. Play then proceeds clockwise around the table. You can get a little more creative at this point in the poker hands order, but not by much. Depending on the flop, a move here can be just as dangerous as an ill timed raise from under the gun. If you’ve got weak players behind you, it’s possible that you’d loosen the reigns a little bit. Texas Holdem Poker Hands – CO (Cutoff).
The order in which Texas Hold’em is dealt is very specific and, assuming you’re playing with a table full of lucid, honest people, never changes. First, you are dealt two hole cards. Then comes the flop, turn and river cards.
The flop
After a round of betting for the hole cards, a card is burned off the top of the deck (meaning discarded without being looked at — this is done in case the top card had somehow been exposed or marked), and three cards are dealt face-up to the center of the table. This is known as the flop and is the start of the community cards on the table — those cards that everyone may incorporate in his hand.
Everyone who has not folded now has a five-card hand — two hole cards combined with the three community cards. A round of betting takes place.
The turn
After the flop betting round, another card is burned from the deck and a fourth community card is exposed. This card is known as the turn (sometimes fourth street).
All players still in the hand now have six cards to choose from to make their best five-card Poker hands. There is another round of betting and one more card yet to be exposed.
The river
A card is burned and the most infamous of community cards, the river (sometimes called fifth street) is dealt. All remaining players have seven cards for selecting their best five-card Poker hand (their two hole cards combined with the five community cards). A round of betting takes place, and the best five-card hand at the table is the winner.
To determine their five-card hand, players may use zero, one, or both of their hole cards in combination with five, four, or three community cards, respectively.
Because a player is required to use at least three community cards to make a hand, there can be no flushes if there are not three cards of the same suit (multiple suits with no flush possibilities based on the current exposed community cards is known as a rainbow). Nor can there be a straight if there aren’t three cards from a five-card sequence (for example, 5-8-9).
Here, George is playing the board and has a king-high heart flush. John is using one hole card for an ace-high flush, but Ringo is the big winner using both hole cards for a straight flush.
The flop
The three communal cards (referred to as the flop) are now dealt face up in the middle of the table. There follows a second round of betting, at the same levels as before ($5, with possible raises to $10, $15 and $20). This time, the first player to act (always the player closest to the dealer's left who is still in the pot) can check if he or she likes. If the first player checks, so may the second, etc. but the moment one player bets then every other player must decide whether to call, raise or fold. If all the players check, the turn is dealt immediately. Once again, if one player bets and all the other players fold, then that player takes the pot without even having to show his cards. But if there are two or more players still left in, then the turn is dealt.
TheTurn
The turn, which is one single communal card, is now dealt face up, and there follows a 3rd round of betting. This time the stakes are at the higher level, in this example $10 with possible raises to $20, $30 and $40. Once again, players have the option to check if there are no bets, and the pot can be won here if all the players decide to fold in the face of a bet from another player.
The River
The River is the final face up communal card which is dealt, and there is a fourth and there follows a final round of betting, once again at the higher level.
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