Basic Poker Rules and Information

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Poker is played throughout the world, but it is probably still most popular in its country of origin, the USA. For a good introduction to Poker, refer to the Poker FAQ, which is associated with the newsgroup rec.gambling.poker. Other useful discussion forums are hosted by Two Plus Two Publishing and the United Poker Forum. Beginners may also want to refer to my page on the ranking of poker hands.

An excellent starting point to find all kinds of Poker information is Dan Kimberg's Serious Poker Page. Dan also maintains a comprehensive dictionary of Poker jargon, and another very useful dictionary is provided by the Planet Poker site.

Here is a link to Jerry Cooley's Basic Poker Rules, and here is Peter Sarrett's Glossary of Poker Terms.

A very detailed set of rules covering playing procedure, how to deal with irregularities, and so on, can be found on Bob Ciaffone's web site. He provides comprehensive rules for card rooms and for home games.

Poker Listings is an online poker guide and directory with information on online poker rooms, tournaments, bonuses, rules, strategy and many other resources.

The Pokertips.org site gives rules and strategy for Texas Hold'em, general advice on on-line poker, and has useful reviews of on-line poker rooms, poker news and a forum.

The site TexasHoldem-Poker.com provides an introduction to Texas Hold'em Poker for beginners, some pages on strategy, and other useful information and links.

The Flop Turn River site provides strategy advice for low-stakes no limit Texas Hold'em players.

Internet Poker - Tony G's Poker News site offers rules, news and reviews of poker rooms.

Steve Badger's Play Winning Poker site offers news, strategies and links to other useful information.

The International Poker Federation provides poker player ratings and tournament inforamtion as well as strategy articles.

The Poker Strategy site provides free strategy advice on low limit hold 'em and 7 card stud, a friendly and active poker forum, and reviews of on line poker rooms.

Matthew Hilger's Internet Texas Hold em site offers help with general Texas Holdem poker strategy and concepts; also news and a forum.

James Yates has written a useful free Texas Hold'em strategy guide: Introduction to Texas Hold'em Poker.

Joe Smith's Las Vegas Poker Blog has a selection of recent Poker and Vegas news and anecdotes.

Godfrey Daniel's Online Texas Hold'em Tips site offers tips and strategy especially geared to the low limit online Hold'em player.

Mike Greenberg's Top Texas Hold'em site offers strategy advice on limit and no limit Texas Hold'em.

Texas Holdem Poker - a Texas Holdem resource guide featuring rules, strategies and tips.

The Online Poker Beginners Guide site provides advice for beginners, mainly on Texas Holdem.

Tyler Cruz runs the PokerForums.org site, which provides forums for discussion of poker strategy and techniques, along with various other resources such as poker site reviews and a glossary.