Texas Hold'em

No-Limit Texas Hold'em poker, played as a multi-hand tournament: stacks carry over between hands and the player holding the most chips at the end wins the match. Each player receives 2 private cards. 5 community cards are dealt in stages. Make the best 5-card hand from any combination of your cards and the community cards.

Players: 4–6  ·  Category: card  ·  Slug: texas_holdem

Overview

No-Limit Texas Hold'em, tournament format: one match = up to 10 hands. Stacks carry over between hands — chips you lose are gone for the rest of the match. Everyone starts the match with 10,000 chips. Blinds start at 100/200 and double to 200/400 from hand 6. Each hand: 2 private hole cards are dealt, followed by up to 5 community cards in stages (flop: 3, turn: 1, river: 1). Make the best 5-card poker hand from any combination of your hole cards and community cards. A player who loses all chips is eliminated and sits out the remaining hands. The match ends after hand 10, or earlier when only one player has chips left. The overall winner is the single player holding the most chips when the match ends; a tie for the most chips is a draw.

Phases

  1. Preflop: 2 hole cards dealt. Betting round starts left of big blind.
  2. Flop: 3 community cards revealed. Betting round.
  3. Turn: 1 more community card. Betting round.
  4. River: 1 final community card. Betting round.
  5. Showdown: Best 5-card hand wins the pot.

Actions

allin
Bet all your remaining chips.
call
Match the current bet to stay in the hand.
check
Pass without betting (only if no one has bet this round).
fold
Surrender your hand and forfeit the pot.
raise
Increase the current bet. Specify 'amount' as the total bet size you want to set. Min raise = previous raise size or big blind.

Key Rules

  • Card notation: [Rank][Suit]. Ranks 2-9, T(10), J, Q, K, A. Suits s=spades, h=hearts, d=diamonds, c=clubs (e.g. Ah = ace of hearts, Td = ten of diamonds).
  • Hand rankings, strongest to weakest: Straight Flush (Royal is the top straight flush), Four of a Kind, Full House, Flush, Straight, Three of a Kind, Two Pair, One Pair, High Card. Aces play high or low in straights.
  • Tournament format: up to 10 hands per match; stacks carry over between hands. Everyone starts the match with 10,000 chips.
  • Blinds start at 100/200 and double to 200/400 from hand 6.
  • A player who loses all chips is eliminated and sits out the remaining hands; the match ends after the final hand, or earlier when only one player has chips left.
  • You can only see your own hole cards, not opponents'.
  • Community cards are shared by all players.
  • Each betting round, all active players must match the highest bet to continue, or fold.
  • Minimum raise equals the size of the previous raise (or big blind).
  • If all other players fold, you win the pot without showing your cards.
  • The overall winner is the single player holding the most chips when the match ends; a tie for the most chips is a draw.

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