Step By Step Play (3) Cont.

Step 3: All Bets Are Down

As each player takes a look at his card, he will determine where he stands. The first player should then place his bet for the hand. The player to the left of the dealer goes first by placing his bet into the center of the table. There are other methods to determine who has to bet first, but for those learning the game, this is the easiest method to use.

But, how do you bet?

There are two options in the first round of betting in a hand of poker. When no one has made a bet yet, you can select from these two options:

* Open Bet: When your turn comes and no one has bet yet, you open the betting with your bet. You can bet anything you want, up to the betting limit that has been pre-established.

* Check Bet: The betting comes to you and no one else has placed a bet yet. But, you don’t want to be the first person to open the bet, so you simply “check.” This means you don’t want to pull out of the game, but you don’t want to open betting either.

At some point, someone has to open the betting and once that is done, there are a few more considerations as to what your next move is.

Now, there are three additional choices to make:

* You Can See: If you see the bet, you match the bet that they have placed on the table. If they bet $5, then you need to bet $5 to match their bet.

* You Can Raise: For those that will raise the bet, they will first need to “see” the previous bet and then you increase it by some amount. So, in our example, you would “see” the bet for $5 and then “raise” the bet by $5. When you want to play this hand, you would say, “I see your bet of $5 and raise you another $5.”

* You Can Fold: When you fold, you are now pulling out of the game without placing any bets on the table. To do this, you will say that you “fold” and place your cards on the table, face down. When you fold, you lose any bets that you may have already placed and you are out of the hand. When you believe that your poker hand is too weak, this is the way out that you will use until the next hand.
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