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Texas Hold'Em is the darling of pro Poker players, spectators,
and the media. It's an aggressive, flashy, intense and unpredictable
game that gets the dollars on the table and changing hands
like no other contemporary form of Poker. All that and it
looks deceptively simple to play. The old hard-nut players
may prefer 7-Card Stud, but everyone else is in love with
Hold'Em. It's no coincidence that Hold'Em is the game that
players at the World Series of Poker play to determine who
takes home $1,000,000 and the champion's custom 14-karat gold
bracelet.
Hold'Em is clearly a descendant of 7-Stud in that players
form a five-card hand from seven available cards, but that's
where the similarity ends. In fact, only two cards are actually
held by the player as pocket cards. The other five are open,
dealt to the middle of the table and shared by all players.
Of course this means there are less cards in play, which is
why Hold'Em typically seats nine or more players at the table.
The dealer in Hold'Em is marked by a disk called the button.
For each hand the button rotates to the left. Players are
identified by their seat position. The dealer is seat one,
the player to the dealer's left is seat two and so on, clockwise
around the table to the player on the dealer's right which
is typically seat nine.
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