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Lesson 3: Where to Practice

Before the advent of online poker, practicing your skills proved to be a difficult task.  Unless you want to practice alone, there was no real way of honing your skills without jumping right into a game.
That has since changed thanks to various online poker rooms.  Now you can download the poker program and play at [...]

Lesson 2: Overview of a Poker Table

The image you see above is a typical layout for Texas Holdem.  Shown is a typical 10 person game, but online you can play 6 man, 4 man or heads up (2 man) as wll.  As explained in the 1st lesson, you see the dealer postion (known as ‘the button’) and blind positons. After the completion [...]

Lesson 1: Rules of Texas Holdem

To start off we will talk about the betting structure of texas holdem.   The game is normally played using small and big blind bets, which are forced bets by two players. A dealer button is used to represent the player in the dealer position; the dealer button rotates clockwise after each hand, changing the position [...]