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Basic Rules of Poker-Cut Losses and Increase Profits!

If you have played poker online or offline, then you probably know the basic rules involving the game. However, it must be noted that the best poker player is actually made by mastering the possible moves and deals. Mastering the game of poker requires knowing the basic rules of poker by heart. Many poker players, of course, try to learn poker with one objective in mind: winning the big money. And yes, that is all so possible. In fact, the big names in poker history did not actually come from a poker university (who has ever heard of that?) but have learned it from playing the game hundreds and even thousands of times. All over the world, there are poker tournament champions who have managed to take home millions of dollars because they have mastered the game. Let us try to go back to the basic rules of poker and start this poker education.

Although poker is still considered a game of chance and luck, many poker champions use their skill and psychology to come out as winners. The very best way of learning poker is to gather a group of friends and sit around a table, bring a deck of cards, and play. But before you can do that, you have to be well informed about the basic rules of poker.

Poker is a card game which uses a deck or a standard pack of 52 cards. The cards are ranked bases on their numbers and symbols. Arranged from high to low are Ace, King, Queen, Jack, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3 and 2.

Hand ranks or the combination of cards also have their corresponding value. First is the Five of A Kind (for example, 5 Aces beat 5 Kings). The Straight Flush is composed of 5 cards in order (7, 8, 9,10, Jack) all having the same suit or symbol (all hearts or all spades. The Four of a Kind is four cards with the same rank. The Full House is composed of three of a kind and a pair (3 Kings and 2 Jacks, for example). A Flush has cards which are from the same suit or symbols (Hearts of 9, 8, 3, Jack, King).A Straight is 5 cards in order (10, 9, 8, 7, 6). Three of a Kind has 3 cards of the same rank plus two different cards. Two Pair consists of any two distinct pairs plus a fifth card. A Pair has 2 cards with the same rank and 3 others with different ranks. The last kind is the High Card which simply means the highest card wins if no one has any kind of pairs.

The next basic rule of poker is the one that involves the betting or the act of putting an "ante". In betting you can have a choice between a call, a raise or a fold. For the call and the raise, the player puts an ante either matching the last bet or going over the last bet. This is actually up to the player's strategy. The last one, folding, involves dropping out of the current hand but this would mean you would not be able to have a chance of winning the pot (total bets).

These are the very basic rules of poker that each poker player must master. Knowing the basic rules of poker by heart, you can now move on to actual games. Remember, a good poker player combines skill, psychology, patience, continuous learning, experience, and risk to haul the big money.

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