Live Dealer Texas Hold’em Guide and Overview

At the onset, your goal in live dealer hold’em is to build the best possible poker hand using the two cards you’re dealt and any three of the five shared community cards.

The Difference between Standard Online Hold’em and Live Dealer Hold’em

In Live Dealer Hold’em, as opposed to traditional Texas Hold’em online, you only play against the dealer and the dealer rather than trying to beat the other players.

Live Dealer Casino Hold’em places you at a virtual casino table. Still, unlike other online poker rooms, the flashy graphics and random card generators are replaced by a real-life dealer and a real card deck seen via live video stream. Thanks to this live video stream, you can interact with the dealer and fellow players as if you were at a real casino, sitting at your favorite poker table.

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While there are more than a dozen variations of Texas Hold’em, like Omaha and Pineapple, the most common and most popular among US players are these three:

Limit Hold’em

The bet size is determined before the game starts, but wagers in the first two rounds are smaller than bets placed in the final two rounds. If you’re playing a $10/$20 limit Texas Hold’em game, you can wager in multiples of $10 after receiving your cards and after the flop, but bets increase to $20 following the turn and the river.

Pot Limit Hold’em

The maximum amount players can wager per round is whatever the total is in the pot. If there’s $50 in the pot after the flop, no player may wager more than $50.

No Limit Hold’em

That is exactly what it suggests. So long as they have the chips to cover the bet, a player may wager as much as they wish per betting round. The World Series of Poker is played under No-Limit Hold’em rules.

Hold’em Deal and Betting Rounds

At the beginning of each hand, each player at the table will be dealt two cards face down. These are also known as the “pocket” or “hole” cards. Over the remainder of the hand, the dealer will reveal five community cards, interspersed with a betting round.

Here’s what the game looks like: Each player is dealt two cards face-down. First round of betting, The dealer reveals the first three community cards (known as the “flop”). In the second round of betting, The dealer reveals the fourth community card (known as the “turn”). In the third round of betting, The dealer reveals the fifth and final community card (known as the “river”), the Final round.

After all dealing and betting rounds are complete, the remaining players will reveal their ‘pocket’ cards, and the best hand wins the pot.

Terminology Remains the Same

Folding’ means turning your cards in and giving up on that round, forfeiting any bets you may have made.

You may want to fold if the wager sizes are higher than you like or if you don’t have a strong hand and believe the dealer has a very strong hand.

Checking’ is choosing not to bet but to remain in the game. It’s essentially the equivalent of choosing to wager zero dollars.

You may want to check if you want to see how the dealer will bet, if it’s early in the game, or if your hand is good but not great.

Betting’ means placing a wager into the pot (the prize pool). Betting is how the pot gets full, and if you or the dealer want to remain in the hand, they must match the other’s current bet size.

You may want to bet if you feel confident in your hand or think the dealer is likely to fold.

Calling means matching the dealer’s bet. Once the dealer has placed a bet, you must call or raise it to remain in the game.

You may want to call if you want to stay in the game, if you’re close to having a winning hand, or if you want the dealer to think you’re confident in your hand.

Raising’ means both matching and increasing another player’s bet.

If you raise someone’s bet, the dealer must match this new bet size to remain in the game.

You may want to raise if you are confident in your hand and want to increase the pot size if you believe you have a better hand than the dealer or if you want to appear more confident than you are (a ‘bluff.’)

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