Players place an ante on the table. The ante is set by the card room, and is not applicable in games where increments are $0.50/$1.00.

3rd Street - three cards are dealt - two "hole" cards, and one visible "door card".

At this point, the Player with the lowest card must bring-in the betting.

First round of betting - options are to check, fold, bet, or raise.

4th Street - the fourth card is dealt - face-up.

Betting round - options are to check, fold, bet, or raise.

5th Street - the fifth card is dealt - face-up.

Betting round - options are to check, fold, bet, or raise.

6th Street - the sixth card is dealt - face-up.

Betting round - options are to check, fold, bet, or raise.

River Card /7th Street- the final card is dealt - facedown.

Final round of betting follows. If two or more Players are still vying for the pot when the betting concludes, the hands at the table are turned face-up

The Showdown! All remaining Players create the best possible five-card high and five-card low poker hand using: any 5 of the 7 Cards to create a high-hand or any 5 of the 7 Cards to create a low-hand

The two Players with the best high and low hands split the pot!

An Ace can count as either 1 or 11, as demonstrated below.
The cards from 2 through 9 are valued as indicated.
The 10, Jack, Queen, and King are all valued at 10.

The suits of the cards do not have any meaning in the game.The value of a hand is simply the sum of the point counts of each card in the hand. For example, a hand containing (5,7,9) has the value of 21. The Ace can be counted as either 1 or 11. You need not specify which value the Ace has. It's assumed to always have the value that makes the best hand. An example will illustrate: Suppose that you have the beginning hand (Ace, 6) This hand can be either 7 or 17. If you stop there, it will be 17. Let's assume that you draw another card to the hand and now have (Ace, 6, 3) Your total hand is now 20, counting the Ace as 11. Let's backtrack and assume that you had instead drawn a third card which was an 8. The hand is now (Ace, 6, 8) which totals 15. Notice that now the Ace must be counted as only 1 to avoid going over 21.

A hand that contains an Ace is called a "soft" total if the Ace can be counted as either 1 or 11 without the total going over 21. For example (Ace, 6) is a soft 17. The description stems from the fact that the player can always draw another card to a soft total with no danger of "busting" by going over 21. The hand (Ace,6,10) on the other hand is a "hard" 17, since now the Ace must be counted as only 1, again because counting it as 11 would make the hand go over 21.

Some people think the object of the game is to get 21, or to get closer to 21 than the dealer without "busting," which means going over 21. This is incorrect! The real objective of the game is to beat the dealer. There are 3 ways in which a player can beat the dealer:

1. The player receives an ace and a 10-value card for blackjack.
2. The player gets closer to 21 than the dealer.
3. The dealer goes over 21 and the player, regardless of what the total is in his hand, does not.

The game starts with every player making their opening bets. Make sure to read the sign next to the dealer which indicates the minimum and maximum table limit. Most online casinos have table limits from as low as $1 up to $100. After all the players placed their bets the dealer will start dealing the cards. Starting with the player to his left he gives every player one card, face down, including himself. This is the dealers down card. Then he deals a second round of cards, face down but this time the card he deals himself will be face up. This is the dealers up card. You now can look at both of your cards and find your total by simply adding the values of your cards.