How to Play Texas Hold Em

The game of Texas Holdem is fast emerging as the new craze among gamblers and the poker game of choice around the World. The No limit Texas hold em tournament was aired on ESPn in which the winner out of 5,000 plus people won $7.5 million. Every year thousands of people spend $10,000 to play in this huge No Limit Texas Hold' em tournament and the amount of people playing has grown each year. 

Here is How to play Texas Hold' Em

Items: 1 deck of cards, poker chips  optional: dealer button, small blind and big blind buttons

Each person is dealt two cards face down by the dealer. Only you should be looking at your cards and do not show them to anyone. The object of the game is gain as many chips as possible. The game continues until one player has all of the other players' poker chips. After each turn, there is a round of betting in which a person can call "check, call or raise." 

To start with, the person who deals first is the button for the first turn. The person sitting directly to that players left is the small blind and the person sitting two spaces to the left is the big blind. The small blind must put in the set amount that the small blind is. Then the big blind must put in the set amount of poker chips for the big blind which is usually double the amount of the small blind. Once both of these players have done so, two cards are dealt to every player 

As the action resumes, the person sitting to the left of the big blind must go first. He has to decide if he wants to play this round with the two cards that he has been dealt with. If he elects not to play, he must give his cards back to the dealer with the cards. In the early stages of the game there is no penalty in terms of poker chips being taken away from players not in the small or big blinds. However for the two players in the small and big blind, they have committed the small and big blind chips into the pot.