Texas Hold’em Poker Game for Your iPhone and iPod Touch
July 25, 2008
Texas Hold’em app lets you play like a pro against realistic opponents or with your friends over Wi-Fi Network (up to 9 players supported). This game has visually stunning graphics and realistic sound effects. You can use all the hints, tips, tells, and your mastery to gain access to exclusive rooms with higher-stakes and even bigger rewards.
To switch between first-person and top-down gameplay, just rotate your iPhone or iPod touch. Your opponents bet, bluff, and have secret tells.
Texas hold ‘em (also hold’em, holdem) is the most popular poker game in the casinos and poker card rooms across North America and Europe. Hold ‘em is a community card game where each player may use any combination of the five community cards and the player’s own two hole cards to make a poker hand, in contrast to poker variants like stud or draw where each player holds a separate individual hand. These are the basic rules for Texas Hold ‘Em Poker:
The dealer shuffles a standard 52-card deck, but in casinos, the dealer never plays. A round disc - known as a “dealer button” - moves clockwise from player to player with each hand. The button marks which player would be the dealer if the deal were advanced from player to player as the game went along.
Most Texas Hold ‘Em Poker games start with the two players to the left of the dealer (the button) putting a predetermined amount of money into the pot before any cards are dealt, ensuring that there’s something to play for on every hand. This is called “posting the blinds.” Most often, the “first blind” - the player to the left of the dealer - puts up half the minimum bet, and the “second blind” puts up the full minimum bet. Each player is dealt two cards, face down. These are known as the “hole cards.”
A round of betting takes place, beginning with the player to the left of the two who posted the blinds. Players can call, raise, or fold when it’s their turn to bet. After the first betting round, the dealer discards the top card of the deck. This is called burning the card and is done to ensure that no one accidentally saw the top card, and to help prevent cheating. The dealer then flips the next three cards face up on the table. These cards are called the “flop.”
Eventually, a total of five community cards will be placed face up on the table. Players can use any combination of the community cards and their own two hole cards to form the best possible five-card Poker hand. After the flop, another round of betting takes place, beginning with the player to the left of the dealer (the button). During this and all future rounds of betting, players can check, call, raise, or fold when it’s their turn to bet.
The dealer burns another card and plays one more face up onto the table. This, the fourth community card, is called the “turn” or “Fourth Street.” The player to the left of the dealer (the button) begins the third round of betting.
The dealer burns another card before placing the final face-up card on the table. This card is called the “river” or “Fifth Street.”
Players can now use any combination of seven cards - the five community cards and the two hole cards known only to them - to form the best possible five-card Poker hand. The fourth and final round of betting starts with the player to the left of the dealer (the button). After the final betting round, all players who remain in the game reveal their hands. The player who made the initial bet or the player who made the last raise shows their hand first. The player with the best hand wins. Good Luck! Price: $4.99 (download)




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