Play Texas Holdem: Limit And No-limit

Texas Holdem is the most popular poker variation played online as well as offline, the great thing is that its so easy to pick up the rules and begin playing. You just need to identify which variation you should play.

The dealer is chosen and then each hand it will rotate clockwise making the blind bet fair at all times, there is generally a small and big blind involved these are forced bets by the 2 players to the left of the dealer. The person directly left of the dealer will have the small blind which is half of the minimum bet on the table. The person after the player with the small blind gets the big blind, this is equal to the minimum bet on the table.

There are 2 main types of Texas Holdem, limit and no-limit. The limit variation required the bets to be equal the big blind for the first 2 rounds of the hand. After the pre-flop and flop players are able to raise the pot by double the big blind originally set.

No-limit, which is often played in the bigger tournaments or by advanced players is totally different and you could potentially lose a lot more money if you are not confident that you can play Texas Holdem successfully.

In this variation you can raise the pot by any number of chips that you have over the big blind. Players can re-raise bets but they have to match the previous raise as a minimum. For example if the big blind was , you could raise taking the total to . If someone wanted to re-raise they would have to raise it by a minimum of .

Another fairly popular variation which is worth mentioning is called pot-limit, this just means that the maximum raise cannot exceed the amount in the current pot.