Free Poker Games How to Watch the Board Cards and Win

March 11th, 2010 | About Satellite TV

Whatever type of poker you are playing, free poker games, pay poker or poker with friends for fun, watching the cards which make the flop is so important, especially when you are new to the game.

Since the community cards are played by everyone in the game, it’s possible for somebody to hold the same card as you do-but with a higher kicker. Take this situation, for instance: Two pair is a very common hold in hold’em. Let’s suppose that player A has two sixes in the hole. That’s a turning hand, as he now has a pretty good hope of getting another to get three of a kind, and he’s going to get three cards in the flop instead of one at a time to see if he can get that other six.

The turn comes an eight, eight, and deuce. Now Player A has sixes and eights. Right now, he’s a favorite over an ace, king because there are two more cards to come, and a player with an ace, king must catch one of those cards to beat Player A’s hand.

Along comes a ten. Player A is still favorite to win with the best hand. Player B has an ace, king. His hand, then, is two eights, with an ace, king, ten.

The final community cards is a ten, and, as a result, Player A cant beat anything. Player B has tens and eights with an ace kicker. Since only five of the seven cards are played to make a hand, Player A has eights and tens with a six kicker. [spin]Actually, he’s ended up with three pair which aren’t worth a damn. [spin]If that last ten hadn’t hit, Player A would have had a hand, but Player B who didn’t have anything to start with, wins the pot on the basis of his ace kicker.

If you are new to hold’em, have a go at playing free poker games and see how you get on before betting any real money on the cash tables.

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