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Two cards of your own, five shared cards

Each player receives two hole cards. Up to five community cards are revealed in the center. Your final hand is the best five-card combination from the seven cards available. You can use zero, one or two of your hole cards.

The “Your hand now” panel tracks what you currently have. Before the flop it describes your two cards. Afterward, it shows your best available five-card hand. Ace high, also called A-high, is an unpaired hand whose highest card is an ace.

Four cards of the same suit are not yet a flush: you need five. A chance to complete a hand is called a draw. The panel identifies made hands without predicting the next cards.

How a hand unfolds

1. Button and blinds: D marks the dealer button, which moves each hand. SB and BB mean small blind and big blind, the compulsory bets of 5 and 10 at this table.
2. Preflop: each player receives two cards. The action starts to the left of the big blind, who still gets to act if everyone only calls.
3. Flop: three community cards are revealed. Another betting round begins.
4. Turn: the fourth community card arrives and a new round begins.
5. River: the fifth community card opens the last betting round.
6. Showdown: the remaining players compare their hands. The winner takes the pot. If everyone else folds first, the hand ends immediately.

After the flop, the first active player to the left of the button acts first. With only two players left, the button posts the small blind and acts first preflop. The big blind acts first on later streets.

Check, call, raise and what no-limit means

You can check when there are no more chips to call. Facing a bet, you can call, raise or fold. A bet is the first wager in a round. No-limit means you may wager all your available chips and go all-in.

The minimum bet at this table is 10. A full raise must be at least as large as the previous full raise. For example, if the bet rises from 10 to 30, the raise was 20 and the next minimum raise is to 50.

A short-stacked player can go all-in for less than the minimum. That does not necessarily reopen the right to raise for players who have already acted. The game only offers legal actions.

Side pots and returned chips

An all-in player stays in the hand but can only win the part their chips cover. Additional wagers by other players form side pots. Any unmatched portion of a bet is returned to the bettor.

Hand rankings, kickers and ties

From strongest to weakest: straight flush (with the royal flush at the top), four of a kind, full house, flush, straight, three of a kind, two pair, one pair and high card.

When categories match, compare the card ranks and then the tiebreakers, called kickers. A pair of aces beats a pair of kings. Kickers may separate two players with the same pair. An ace can be low in the straight A-2-3-4-5.

Suits have no priority in a tie. If the best five cards are equivalent, the players split the pot. A tie can use only community cards. An odd chip goes to the first winner to the left of the button.

Playing poker without betting real money: how play chips work

You start with 1,000 chips, as does each bot. Blinds stay at 5/10 and do not increase automatically. This is a simulated table with play chips. There are no real-money bets or prizes to withdraw.

The bots use their own cards, the community cards and the publicly visible bet amounts. They do not see opponents’ hidden cards or the upcoming cards in the deck. They estimate their chances against possible opposing hands, factoring in position, earlier bets and the number of opponents. They are practice bots and are not guaranteed to play optimally.

The game does not grade your decisions as right or wrong. Displaying your current hand does not mean you are ahead of your opponents. Use the experience to learn the flow and actions.

The game runs in this browser and is not saved. Reloading or restarting returns everyone to 1,000 chips. If you run out of chips, you can start again for free.

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