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Texas Hold’em  Share this with your friends  Texas Hold’em is
one of the most popular versions of poker being played right
now. Before you begin learning the strategies and tactics that
make winning Hold’em so much fun, you need to know the absolute
basics: how the cards are dealt, how the betting works, and a
little bit more besides.  Ranking the Hands  Five might be the
most important number in poker, if only because five cards make
a complete poker hand. This is true no matter how many cards
you’re dealt, whether seven, as in seven-card-stud, or just two,
as in Hold’em.  This leads us to our next topic: the ranking of
the different possible hands. Not coincidentally, they’re ranked
by how often they occur. Hard-to-get hands are top dog, while
everyday mongrels command little respect. For example, if you
deal out five-card hands to yourself from a shuffled deck,
you’ll average gettin