Texas Hold’Em is a simple game but starting playing it online can be difficult for newbies.

You have always to learn some rules just to be sure not to cut a poor figure in fron of the green table and you have also to choose the right virtual place where to play among the thousands and thousands of internet sites that offer online gaming.

I chose to describe the poker room you can find on Popyeah.com, and try to teach you some quick rules that you can apply to become Texas Hold’Em God! Popyeah.com is a very popular multiplayer online game site and it is really well done. You can find there a wide online gaming community and many many opponents to play with in one of the 100 (and more) games with high quality graphics and sound.

You can save your game scores and climb up rankings and charts; you can join tournaments playing against the other players and you can become a part of a great community. What I want to underline is that Popyeah.com is NOT and online casino and you can’t win real money. There you can play the real SPORTING POKER for fun and for tasting the challenge. Besides, and I can say this is really a good thing, on Popyeah you can play for free, and you can also insert your personal profile, upload your photos, manage your personal blog, create your friends list and communicate with many other people. All of our games have a built-in chat sub-system that enables real-time communication between players while they play. Players can also talk each other with Skype during gameplay.

And now let’s go to the rules…

Texas Hold’Em Poker is a variation of poker in which each player receives two cards and then uses a combination of those two cards and the five community cards to form a hand. The player with the best hand wins.

Below is a ranking from worst to best of the types of poker hands.

ONE PAIR – happens when a player has two figures of the same value in his hand, for example two kings, two tens, two aces etc.
TWO PAIRS – happens when a player has a pair of the same figures twice, for example two kings and two aces, two thirds and two tens etc.
THREE OF A KIND – as the name says, it happens when a player has three cards of the same value, for example three aces.
STRAIGHT – five cards (with different suits) which are grouped one after the other, for example 7,8,9,10,J.
FLUSH – five cards with the same suit, for example A,J,10,7,2.
FULL HOUSE – a set of PAIR and THREE OF A KIND, which means for example K,K,A,A,A.
FOUR OF A KIND – as the name says, it happens when a player has four cards of the same value, for example four kings or four aces and so on.
STRAIGHT FLUSH – the strongest set in game. It is five cards in the same suit which are grouped one after another, for example A,K,D,J,10 of spades. At the start of the game, two cards are dealt to every player. This is followed by the first round of betting among the players. All bets go into a pot. Next, the dealer reveals three community cards. This is followed by a second round of betting. Then a fourth community card is revealed, followed by another round of betting. Finally, the fifth community card is revealed and there is one final round of betting. After the final round of betting, the player with the best five card set wins the pot.