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Any experienced poker player will tell you there are two objectives that go hand in hand—pardon the pun—for every game you play: either win big or lose small. Here’s how.

Step 1: Know basic rules
Poker involves rounds of betting into a shared fund, or “pot,” which accumulates in the middle of the table. Each round is followed by receiving or exchanging cards that depends on the type of poker you’re playing. Betting begins with either the dealer or the player to the dealer’s immediate left and proceeds clockwise around the table.

Step 2: Get familiar with terminology
Most games begin with a “forced bet”, a mandatory bet from every player before the cards are dealt. This bet may be an “ante”, a set amount that each player must match in order to join the game before the dealing begins, or a “blind” bet, any amount the first player decides to place as his or her opening bet.

Tip
In Hold’em games with betting limits, it’s traditional for the blind bet, or the “small blind,” to be half the amount of the betting limit. It’s also traditional for the next player’s bet, or the “big blind,” to be twice the small blind.

Step 3: Respond to bet
After the opening bet, you must decide how to respond to whatever bet immediately precedes your turn: You may “fold” by refusing to match the bet and withdrawing from the game. You may “call” the bet by matching its amount in order to stay in the game. You may “raise” the bet—first matching the previous amount and then increasing it.

Step 4: All-in option
In “no-limit” poker games, players also have the option of going “all-in”—matching and raising a bet with all their remaining money or chips.

Step 5: End betting & reveal cards
The betting ends when the last player in the turn calls the preceding bet. At that point anyone who wants to stay in the game must match the final raise amount. Then it’s time to cross your fingers and reveal your cards…

Did You Know?
The annual World Series of Poker event in Las Vegas regularly ends with final pots exceeding one million dollars.

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Learn how to count cards in blackjack in this Howcast video about gambling.

I wanted to go really briefly into how to count cards. It’s a common misconception to a lot of new players that a card counter is required to count every single card that’s coming up. And that’s really not how it works, it’s a lot simpler than that. And basically I’ll go into the most simple method, is a high-low system, where as the cards come out then point values are given to all of those cards. So for here I’m just going to deal out five hands. So in the case here, all the tens and aces, in this case we don’t have any aces here, but the tens would be considered minus one. Right? And the reason why it’s a minus is that tens are generally good for the player, so when they come out then the rest of the shoe just gets a little bit worse. All right. And then we have cards two, three, four, five, six, these are considered good cards to come out in the beginning and so these have a point value of plus one. So all the other cards which would be a seven, eight, nine, those are considered neutral, because they don’t really help you that much, they don’t really hurt you that much. So in the case here these two cards would make this shoe right now minus two, and this would go minus three, minus four, this is a plus one so it goes back to minus three, these cancel each other out because you got one high and one low, so minus three. And then we’ve got these two here, minus one. And this is neutral.

So, generally as the shoe goes on it’s going to skew into positive or negative territory, and when the count gets really, really positive, then generally a lot of card counters, what they’ll do, they’ll put more money on their bets because they know the shoe here is rich in the ten value cards that’s gonna make them money. In the case where it’s extremely negative, what people will do is, generally the card count, if it’s negative they don’t play because it’s not very good for you, but if they do, they play the bare minimum, or sometimes what they’ll do is they’ll kind of vary their play, because they figure, you know, it’s a whole bunch of low cards coming up, so they may hit a seventeen, where they normally wouldn’t, or like a twelve versus another card here, versus like say a five, where he knows that the shoe is a little bit cooler with the small value cards. Normal basic strategy says you would leave that alone but you may consider hitting that if he’s counting cards. And that’s a very basic on how to count, it’s about plus and minus and when it gets to a certain predetermined point, determine exactly how you’re betting and your strategy and all would determine how big your bets get. And that’s card counting.

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Learn how to play 5-card draw in this Howcast video about poker.

Hey guys, I just want to show you how to play Five Card Draw. It’s not poker game that you’re going to find in any casino. It’s more of a home game and an old bar/saloon type of thing.

Basically, we’ve got four players here. Every player gets five cards face down. There’s never a dedicated dealer on this game, it usually gets passed around the table. So, I’ll act as this player here, lift the hand so you can see what I’ve got. So, basically there’s a round of betting first up, so I’m going to move these over here. This player’s first so, so he wants to bet 10, then everybody else can call. They can fold, they can raise. It can be played limit or no limit, that’s really up to you. So, say he wants to raise to 20, and say, it’s really not that good, but why not. Alright, and everybody else wants to call. Alright, so this all now goes into a pot.

Now, I choose. You could keep whichever card you want and throw away whichever ones you want, but I’ll choose to keep two, and I draw three. Alright, so whatever cards those are. Alright, and lets say that this player here wants to draw one card, so the he gets his one. This player here decides to throw in the two, he gets two, and this player here, he wants to throw away three, so he gets three.

Now everybody’s got their hands, now they’re set, because there was a draw and you know, I could put the cards down. Now there’s another round of betting, so we’ll just say everybody wants to bet 20, and everybody calls. This all goes into the pot and now whoever has the best hand wins.

So right here, three 6’s, it’s pretty good. This hand here, player’s got a Ace high. Player here’s got a Jack high, and player here’s got a King high. So in this case here, three 6’s win the pot. And that’s how you play Five Card Draw.