Poker guide
How to play Poker
The rules of Poker in plain words, as the app plays them.
The table
No-Limit Texas Hold'em, you and up to five computer players. Everyone starts with 1,000 points. A round disc marks the dealer, and the two players to their left post the blinds: 5 and 10 points to start the betting.
The deal
Each player gets two cards face down, only for them. Five more go face up in the middle over the hand, for everyone to use: three (the flop), then one (the turn), then one (the river).
Betting
Around the table, each player folds, checks, calls, bets or raises. There's a round of betting before the flop and after each new card.
No limit means you can bet any amount from the smallest raise up to all your points. Use the slider, or tap ½ pot, ¾ pot, Pot or All in.
All in and side pots
A player with fewer points than the bet can go all in. Everyone else keeps betting into a side pot, which the all-in player can't win. Each pot goes to the best hand among the players in it.
Showdown
If more than one player is left after the last round, everyone turns their cards up. The best five cards from your two and the five in the middle win the pot. If everyone else folds, the last player wins without showing.
Hands, best to worst
Straight flush: 5♥ 6♥ 7♥ 8♥ 9♥. Four of a kind: four 8s. Full house: three 9s and two Kings. Flush: five cards of one suit. Straight: 4 5 6 7 8. Three of a kind: three Jacks. Two pair: Aces and 4s. Pair: two Queens. High card: Ace high.
An ace counts high or low in a straight (A 2 3 4 5 is the lowest). Suits never break a tie.
Points
Points are never sold. Run out and start again with 1,000 points, free, any time. Restart points in the menu starts everyone at 1,000 again.
Fair computer players
Computer players only see their own cards, the ones in the middle and how everyone has bet. After every hand, Review the hand shows every card and every action.