Then the dealer deals one more card to each player in the same way. When playing online you don’t have to worry about the position of the dealer and Big and Small Blinds since this is all taken care of automatically by the poker software.Ī Texas Hold’em hand begins with the dealer dealing one card face down in a clockwise manner to all the players at the table starting with the player to the immediate left of the Big Blind. The position of the dealer button also determines the position of the Big and Small Blind as the Small Blind is the player to the immediate left of the dealer and the Big Blind is the player to the left of the Small Blind (see the figure below). The dealer button rotates clockwise after each completed hand, and is used to represent the player holding the dealer position. This means that in Texas Hold’em there will always be money to win in a hand. In Texas Hold’em two players – the Big Blind and the Small Blind – are required to place bets (known as blinds) in the pot (the amount of money to be won in any single completed hand) before any cards are dealt. We are now ready to move on to the actual Texas Hold’em game and how it’s played. In my previous post in this series I described the different Texas Hold’em hands and how they rank against each other. Step 3: The Texas Hold’em No Limit Gameplay:
This article is a part of the Poker Rules series.