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Poker Texas Hold'em

Would you dare to challenge other cowboys in a Poker Texas Hold'em match, the most popular version of this game in US casinos? If you are over 16 and feel like showing you would be the best in Las Vegas sign up for the  Poker Texas Holdem competition. You just need to be willing to play and we will provide you with a board, cards and even hats.

 

Inscription

Every participant may give their name through the games intranet. Inscription will remain open from the party official start to Friday at 11:00 am when matchings will be decided. The matches timetable will be made public in the games intranet.

 

Modalidad de juego

Individual, 128 participants. 16 games will be played with 8 players each, and the two players in every table to finish with the highest number of chips will go onto the second round, in which there will be 4 tables with 8 players each and the best two will go onto yhe final. Matches in the first round will last no more than 60 minutes, 90 minutes in the second round and no more than 120 the final. When the scheduled time is up the player having the highest number of chips will win.  

 

Game rules

 

Bets:

The game will start with the blind ones (small and big), which will have been decided at the game beginning, and they will be heightened every 10 minutes. Every player will start with 1.000 chips and the blinds will start in 10 the small one and 20 the big one as in the following table.  

 

Qualifiers:

* Start from 10/20               *10´ up to 15/30                 *20´ up to 20/40

*30´ up to 25/50                  *40´ up to 50/100                 *50´ up to 100/200

 

Second round:

* Start from 10/20                *10´ up to 15/30                  *20´ up to 20/40

*30´ up to 25/50                  *40´ up to 50/100                 *50´ up to 100/200

*60´ up to 150/300               *70´ up to 200/400               *80´ up to 250/500   

 

Final:

* Start from 10/20                *10´ up to 15/30                  *20´ up to 20/40

*30´ up to 25/50                  *40´ up to 50/100                 *50´ up to 100/200

*60´ up to 150/300               *70´ up to 200/400               *80´ up to 250/500

*90’ up to 300/600                *100’ up to 350/700              *110’ up to 400/800

 

How to play:

 

Pre-Flop

The game starts by delivering two covered cards to every player, which are called pocker cards or hole cards. These are the only cards every player will receive individually and they will possibly not be shown until the game end. The game will start with a series of pre-flop bets starting the player on the left of the big blind and going on in the direction of clock hands.

 

Post-Flop

1st phase, (Flop): Three uncovered cards.

The dealer delivers the flop, 3 uncovered cards which are knoen as community cards. The flop is followed by another bet round. This and the rest of bet rounds start from the player on the dealer’s left and continue in the direction of clock hands.

2nd phase, (Turn): An uncovered card.

After the bet round in the flop, a new incovered card (turn) is delivered on the table. This card is also known as 4th street.

3rd phase, (River): An uncovered card.

After the Turn another uncovered card (River) is delivered to the table which in total make up what is known as Community cards, and is followed by another bet round. This card is also called 5th street.

 

Show Down

Finally cards will be shown if necessary to decide the winner among the players remaining in the game.

If a player makes a bet and the rest retire, that player gets all the money in the pot and won’t be forced to show his cards. If two or more players continue after the last bet round, cards will be shown. In the show down each player sill show his best 5 cards among the 7 which make up his pocket cards and the community cards.

If two or more players share the best hand, the pot is equally divided among them. Anyway it is usual for players to hold similar cards but not equal.

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