Poker is one of the truly universal games. Even before the inception and widespread popularity of internet poker anyone would be hard pressed to find anyone, anywhere, who has never heard of the game,...
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Lesson One: The History of Poker
Lesson Two: Basic Rules of Poker
Some people believe that winning at poker is totally dependant on the cards that you are dealt. This would be true if the idea of rounds of betting had not been part of the game. The introduction of...
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Lesson Three: Poker Betting and Terminology
Betting: Placing bets is such an integral part of the game that it cannot be separated. If you want to know how to play the game it is important that you know how and when to place your bet. The amount...
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Lesson Four: Poker Bluffing
Poker without bluffing just is not poker. If not for bluffing poker would never have a chance of being classified as a game of skill. Without this ability you are simply playing the hand you are dealt,...
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Lesson Five: Stud Poker
Stud poker is a card game played by two or more people where you try to get the best hand and place bets on the outcome. Cards are dealt to the players in a varied way of some being face up and some...
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Lesson Six: Draw Poker
Draw poker has many variations of play. The basics of the game are that you are dealt five cards and you need to build the best hand possible in order to win. You are allowed to throw away up to three...
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Lesson Seven: Texas Hold Em
Texas holdem is a poker variation that uses blind betting. At the beginning each player is dealt two cards both of which are face down. There are then five community cards dealt in the middle. They...
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Lesson Eight: Poker Face with Omaha Hold Em
Omaha hold em is played much like Texas hold em. Each player is dealt four cards instead of two; however you can only use two of the four cards along with three of the five community cards that are...
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Lesson Nine: Black Jack
Black Jack is one of the simplest of poker games to learn and play. The basic idea to the game is to get as close to 21 as you can without going over. However there are many rules and other things that...
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Lesson Ten: Lowball
In Queens and after you get dealt two cards face down in your hole, the dealer then deals 4 face up cards one two each player at a time, if a queen shows up whatever card is flipped up after it is wild...
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