After everyone has put their minimum bet in the center of the table then the game will commence. The dealer will deal 5 cards faced down to each person. Everyone looks at their cards and you have to "call" to stay in the game, if you do not want to continue that you say "fold" and you will still lose your minimum bet. I recommend that you "call" first as you have nothing to lose. Then each person decides which cards you want to keep and which cards you want to throw away, that can be upto 5. Make sure you choose correctly which cards to discard as it is a huge part of the game. If you do not have anything at all then keep your highest card and throw the rest away. If you have a pair, keep them and discard the rest. If you have 4 cards to a straight or royal flush then go for it. The dealer will then give each player the same amount of cards that they discarded so that everyone now has 5 cards again. Hopefully, you will have been given some great cards which enables you to win . Then you go round the table saying whatever you want to do. Here are the three options :-

• Call - If you "call" it means that you do not want to raise anymore and that you have paid enough to stay in the game.
• Raise - If you "raise" then it means that you raise the bet by so much, a table can have a betting limit, but some do not. If you raise say $10, then everyone else on the table has to raise $10 also. If someone has raised before you then you must raise that amount before you raise any further. For instance Bob raised $50 before you, you put $80 in the pot, so therefore you have raised $30, Bob must put in $30 to stay in the game. Bob still may want to raise you even further if he is confident that he has a good enough hand.
• Fold - When you "fold" then you drop out of the game whatsoever, this should be done if you feel that the amount of money "raised" is not worth risking for the hand that you have. You will lose all chance of winning the pot but you do not have to add anything into the pot.

When all the raising is complete and everyone is happy everyone reveals their cards to each other and the pot is given to the winner. Here are all the way you can win ranked from highest to lowest :-

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