BigBunny Poker: How a Hand Runs and How Ten Hands Rank

Poker is the one table game where you play against other people and not against the house, so the game suits Pinoy players who enjoy a table of friends. This page covers how a hand of Texas Hold’em runs and how the ten hand rankings order themselves. It belongs to the wider set of card games to learn first.

Poker rules: how a Texas Hold’em hand runs

Texas Hold’em is the version most players meet first. Everyone builds a five-card hand from private cards and shared ones. The poker rules below run in the same order on every table.

1. Two players post forced bets called the blinds, so there is always something to win.
2. Each player gets two private cards, called hole cards.
3. The first betting round happens. You can fold, call the bet or raise it.
4. The dealer lays three shared cards, the flop, and a second betting round follows.
5. A fourth shared card, the turn, brings a third round of betting.
6. A fifth shared card, the river, brings the last round.
7. Players still in the hand show their cards, the showdown, and the best five-card hand takes the pot.

If everyone else folds, the last player left wins the pot without showing a card. The table’s info or help screen states the blinds and the stake limits, which this page leaves to the table.

The ten poker hand rankings

Hands are ranked from strongest to weakest. When two players hold the same type, the higher cards inside the hand decide it.

The ace sits at the top of every ranking and can also sit at the bottom of a straight. Jack, queen and king sit between the tens and the ace; what the face cards are worth beyond poker shows how the same cards count in other games.

Poker chips: what they stand for

Poker chips are the stake you play with, and each colour carries a fixed value inside the room. A stack in front of you is your money on the table, and a bet is a number of chips pushed to the middle. Online rooms replace the physical stack with a number that rises and falls with every pot.

Chip colours and denominations differ between rooms, so read the table’s own info screen to learn what each chip is worth.

Poker against blackjack

Poker rewards patience and reading opponents, and blackjack asks for a fixed set of choices against a dealer.

If you prefer the second style, how one blackjack hand runs takes under a minute to learn. If side bets interest you, Perfect Pairs as an extra wager shows how a card table adds more bets.