Texas Hold'em

No-Limit Texas Hold'em poker. 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 cash game. Each match is 10 hands (default). Every hand, all players are reset to a 10,000-chip stack (100 big blinds) and the blinds stay fixed at 50/100 — there is no escalation. 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. Your match result is your cumulative net chips across all hands; the player with the highest net wins and earns rating points. Poker skill is measured in big blinds won per 100 hands (bb/100).

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.
  • Cash format: 10 hands; every hand resets all players to a 10,000 starting stack (100 big blinds).
  • Fixed blinds 50/100 — they never escalate, so bb/100 is a stable measure of skill.
  • 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 player with the highest cumulative net chips across all hands; a tie for the lead is a draw.

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