WHY YOU SHOULD PLAY MULTI TABLE TOURNAMENT POKER
No Limit Texas hold 'em (also hold'em, holdem) is the most popular poker variant played in casinos and online . Hold 'em is a community card poker game; meaning that certain cards are available to be used by all players (in contrast to games like stud or draw). Texas hold 'em is generally played with 2 to 10 players at a STT [ singe table tournament ]. MTT [ multi table tournaments ] can involve up to 2000 players at 200 STT as players drop out the number of tables is reduced ending with just one table called a final table . Prize money in MTT is awarded usually to the top 10 % , the standard payout to the winner is 30 % . MTT are low stakes , low risk poker, but with a high reward to risk ratio .
A variety of strategy books about the game provide recommendations for proper play. Because each player only starts with two cards, and the remaining cards are shared, it presents an opportune game for strategic analysis (including mathematical analysis). Hold 'em is regarded as a highly positional game, since the order of betting is fixed throughout all betting rounds.[2] Because of the shared community cards, kicker are used to determine the winner more often than in other poker variants.
After slow but steady gains in popularity throughout the 20th century, hold 'em's popularity surged in the 2000s due to exposure on television, on the Internet, and in popular literature.[1] The no-limit betting form is used in the widely televised main event of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) and the World Poker Tour.
Objective
Like most variants of poker, the objective of Texas hold 'em is to win pots, where a pot is the sum of the money bet by oneself and other players in a hand. A pot is won either at the showdown (when the remaining players compare their hands) by forming the best five card poker hand out of the seven cards available, or by betting to cause other players to fold and abandon their claim to the pot.
The objective of winning players is not winning individual pots, but rather making mathematically correct decisions. By making such decisions, winning poker players maximize their expected utility and win more money than they lose in the long run.[2]
Play of the hand
Play begins with each player being dealt two cards face down. These cards are the player's hole or pocket cards. These are the only cards each player will receive individually, and they will only (possibly) be revealed at the showdown, making Texas hold 'em a closed poker game.
The hand begins with a "pre-flop" betting round, beginning with the player to the left of the big blind (or the player to the left of the dealer, if no blinds are used) and continuing clockwise. A round of betting continues until every player has either folded, put in all of their chips, or matched the amount put in by all other active players. See betting for a detailed account. Note that the blinds are considered "live" in the pre-flop betting round, meaning that they contribute to the amount that the blind player must contribute.
After the pre-flop betting round, assuming there remain at least two players taking part in the hand, the dealer deals a flop, three face-up community cards. The flop is followed by a second betting round. This and all subsequent betting rounds begin with the player to the dealer's left and continue clockwise. [BEHIND THE BUTTON]
After the flop betting round ends a single community card (called the turn or fourth street) is dealt, followed by a third betting round. A final single community card (called the river or fifth street) is then dealt, followed by a fourth betting round and the showdown, if necessary.[3]
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