Texas hold 'em

Heads-up no-limit over ten hands: two hidden cards, five on the table, fold, call or raise. Best five-card hand takes the pot.

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The table of Texas hold 'em

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Heads-up no-limit hold 'em over ten hands. Each hand you get two hidden cards; five community cards come out in three rounds (flop, turn, river) with a betting round before and after each. Fold, check or call, or raise (half the pot, the pot, or all-in). At showdown the best five-card hand from your two cards and the five on the table wins the pot. After ten hands, or when a player is out of chips, the bigger stack wins.

Blinds 1 and 2, stacks of 100, no antes, no side pots beyond heads-up all-ins (a call for less wins only what the smaller stack covered; the uncalled part goes back). Raise sizes are fixed choices, not any amount. An odd chip of a split pot goes to the player left of the button.

Goal and end of the game

  • Score ten hands played, or a player is out of chips: the bigger stack wins

How the game goes

Follow the track from top to bottom. ↻ repeats, a side track is a branch; under every step: what you decide there. Tap a step for what you decide there.

start↻ Matchuntil ten hands are played or a player is out of chipsNew hand: shuffle,deal two cards each,…↻ Betting roundsper preflop, flop, turn, river · after a fold, or once someone is all-in and called, the remaining streets are skipped (the board is completed at the showdown)nobody folded andnobody all-inif the hand is still openDeal the communitycards↻ Bettinguntil everyone has acted and the bets are equalFold, check or call,or raiseShowdownend of the game
All steps in words
  1. Match until ten hands are played or a player is out of chips
    1. New hand: shuffle, deal two cards each, post the blinds
    2. Betting rounds per preflop, flop, turn, river · after a fold, or once someone is all-in and called, the remaining streets are skipped (the board is completed at the showdown)
      1. The hand goes on? nobody folded and nobody all-in
        • If the hand is still open
          1. Deal the community cards
      2. Betting until everyone has acted and the bets are equal
        1. Fold, check or call, or raise
          • Choose fold, check or call, or a raise
    3. Showdown

On the table

  • deck face down · shuffled
  • hole per player · only its owner sees it
  • board open — the community cards

Under the hood

These rules are read straight from the game's model: the same data the engine plays with. For the exact expressions, the rules diagram and the model source:

Rules diagram · Model (YAML) · Edit a copy