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Texas hold 'em (also known as Texas holdem, hold 'em, or holdem) is a variation of the standard card game of poker. Two cards (hole/hold cards) are dealt face down to each player, and then five community cards are dealt in three stages face-up, placed in front of the dealer. The stages consist of a series of three cards ("the flop"), later an additional single card ("the turn" or "fourth street") and a final card ("the river" or "fifth street"). The best five card poker hand is obtained by using the necessary cards from the community and/or a particular player's hole cards (if a player's best five card poker hand consists only of the five community cards and none of the player's hole cards, it is called "playing the board"). Players have betting options to check, bet/call, raise or fold. Rounds of betting include prior to the flop/"pre-flop", "on the flop", "on the turn", and "on the river". The betting pattern has variations, such as: all players might simply check on a particular round such as pre-flop. Texas Hold 'em is the "H" game featured in H.O.R.S.E and in H.O.S.E. ==Objective== In Texas hold 'em, as in all variants of poker, individuals compete for an amount of money or chips contributed by the players themselves (called the pot). Because the cards are dealt randomly and outside the control of the players, each player attempts to control the amount of money in the pot based either on the hand they are holding,〔 〕 or on their prediction as to what their opponents may be holding. The game is divided into a series of hands (deals); at the conclusion of each hand, the pot is typically awarded to one player (an exception in which the pot is divided between two or more is discussed below). A hand may end at the showdown, in which case the remaining players compare their hands and the highest hand is awarded the pot; that highest hand is usually held by only one player, but can be held by more in the case of a tie. The other possibility for the conclusion of a hand occurs when all but one player has folded and have thereby abandoned any claim to the pot, in which case the pot is awarded to the player who has not folded.〔 The objective of winning players is not to win ''every'' individual hand, but rather to make mathematically and psychologically better decisions regarding when and how much to bet, raise, call--or fold. By making such decisions to place influential bets, one can non-verbally represent/suggest holding/not-holding a certain/possible hand by either betting/not-betting pre-flop, and by venturing small or larger bets/raises at possibly more advantageous times, throughout the stages of the hand being dealt. Ones pattern of betting may encourage opponents to actually talk themselves into betting or into folding (in this complex process, called bluffing), without verbalizing a discouraging/or dishonest word. The winning poker players know how to enhance the opponents' betting and maximize their own expected gain on each round of betting, to thereby increasing their long-term winnings.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Texas hold 'em」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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