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Texas hold'em, also known as hold'em or holdem poker is the most popular poker game in the casinos and in online poker rooms. Texas hold'em is a community card game where each player is dealt two hole cards and may use any combination of the five community cards to make the best five card poker hand.

After steady gains in popularity throughout the 1920s, Texas hold'em popularity surged in the 2000s due to exposure on television, on the Internet and in popular literature. Texas hold'em soon replaced 7 card stud as the most common game in United States casinos. No limit betting is used in the World Series of Poker (WSOP) and the World Poker Tour (WPT).

Because each player only starts with two cards and the remaining cards are community, it presents an opportune game for strategic analysis, including mathematical analysis. Texas hold'em's simplicity and popularity have inspired a wide variety of strategy books which provide recommendation for proper play. Most of these books recommend a strategy that involves playing relatively few hands but betting and raising often with the most oportune hands.

Objective of Texas Hold'em

In Texas hold 'em, like all variants of poker, individuals compete for money contributed by players themselves also 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 on the value of the hand the player holds.

The game is divided into a series of hands or deals; at the conclusion of each hand the pot is awarded to one or a few players. A hand ends either at the showdown when the remaining players compare their hands, or when all but one player have folded and abandoned their claims to the pot. The pot is then awarded to the player(s) who have not folded and have the best hand. This is usually only one player, but in the case of a tie it could be more.

The objective of successful players is not winning every individual hand, but rather making mathematically correct decisions to maximize their long term winnings.