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Play Texas Hold'em online: a beginner's guide

You can play no-limit Texas Hold'em right here at Bullets Poker, at tables from heads-up to 10 players. Start free with play chips: new accounts get 20,000, plus a daily bonus. Play chips can't be exchanged for ICP.

Play Texas Hold'em at Bullets Poker

Start playing

  1. Sign in with Internet Identity. There's no password to create.
  2. Pick a username.
  3. Choose a play-chip table in the lobby and take a seat.

How a hand works

Each player gets two private cards, and five shared cards are dealt to the board. You make your best five-card hand from any of those seven.

  1. Blinds: two players post forced bets to start the pot.
  2. Pre-flop: everyone sees their two cards and bets.
  3. Flop: three cards go on the board, then a round of betting.
  4. Turn: a fourth card, then betting.
  5. River: the fifth card, then a final round of betting.
  6. Showdown: the best remaining hand wins the pot.

On your turn you can fold, check or call, or bet or raise. In no-limit, you can bet any amount up to your whole stack.

Hand rankings, best to worst

  1. Royal flush: A K Q J 10 of one suit
  2. Straight flush: five cards in a row of one suit
  3. Four of a kind
  4. Full house: three of a kind and a pair
  5. Flush: five cards of one suit
  6. Straight: five cards in a row
  7. Three of a kind
  8. Two pair
  9. One pair
  10. High card

Your clock

Each table gives you a set time to act. If it runs out, up to 30 seconds from your time bank kicks in automatically. If that runs out too, you check or fold and sit out until you return.