Six players start with 1,500 chips each. The blinds go up every few hands. Be the last one with chips.
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The one you were playing ends, and everyone starts again with 1,500 chips.
TOURNAMENT OVER
You came 2nd of 6
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Your tournament waits for you.
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Send this link to up to five friends. Each takes a computer player’s seat, with its chips; the computer plays any seats left.
Game ····
A game of Texas Hold’em
You’re invited to game . Type your name: everyone at the table sees it.
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Texas Hold’em needs the phone held upright. Turn it round to play.
Be the last one with chips
You get two cards; five more are shared by everyone, dealt in three steps. Your best five of the seven is your hand.
On your turn: Fold gives up the hand, Call matches the bet (Check when there’s nothing to match), Raise bets more.
On your turn: F folds, C checks or calls, R raises.
Your hand is named for you as the cards come out. The best hand at the end wins the chips bet, or the last player still in.
The blinds (bets that have to be made) go up every 5 hands. Lose all your chips and you’re out. All the rules, and which hand beats which: the ? button.
The tournament: you and five computer players each start with 1,500 chips. Play goes on hand after hand; a player with no chips left is out. The last one with chips wins. Chips are points only: no money.
The players: Ike on your left, then Max, Rosa, Jules and Nina. Each plays their own way: Rosa is careful, Max is bold, Jules plays a lot of hands, Nina likes to bluff, and Ike is steady. Learn them.
A hand: everyone gets two cards only they can see. Then five cards are dealt face up in the middle for everyone to use: three at once (the flop), then one (the turn), then one more (the river). There’s a round of betting before the flop and after each step.
The blinds: the two players left of the dealer (the D button) must bet before seeing their cards: the small blind and the big blind, twice as much. The button moves one place left each hand. The blinds go up every 5 hands; the bar at the top says when.
Your turn:Fold to give up the hand and what you’ve bet in it. Call to match the biggest bet, or Check to pass when there’s no bet to match. Raise (or Bet) to put in more: choose how much with − and +, or tap Least, Half pot, Pot or All in, then tap Raise to. A raise must be at least as big as the last raise.
All in: when you bet all your chips you stay in the hand to the end, but you can only win as much from each player as you put in. Anything bet past that is a side pot, played for by the others.
Who wins: if everyone else folds, the last player in takes the chips without showing. Otherwise, after the last betting round the hands are shown and the best five cards from each player’s two and the five shared wins. Equal hands share the chips.
Which hand beats which, best first: Straight flush (five in a row, one suit; the best, ace high, is a royal flush), Four of a kind, Full house (three of a kind and a pair), Flush (five of one suit), Straight (five in a row; the ace can be high or low), Three of a kind, Two pair, Pair, High card. Between two hands of the same kind, the higher cards win, then the next highest (the kicker).
Keys:F fold, C check or call, R raise (then ↑↓ to choose, Enter to raise, Esc to go back), Space next hand.
With friends: tap Invite a friend to play on the start screen and send the link. Up to five friends can join, each in a computer player’s seat, with its chips; the computer plays any seats left. Every phone shows only its own two cards. After each hand, the next one is dealt when everyone still in has tapped Next hand.
If a friend leaves (or their connection drops), the computer plays their seat, and it says Computer playing. When they open the link again, they get it back. If whoever invited everyone leaves, the game waits 10 minutes for them.
Your tournament is kept on this device, so you can carry on where you left off.