No-Limit Hold'em Tutorial ♠
Texas No-Limit Hold'em is the most-played poker variant in the world. This page walks through the vocabulary — where players sit, how cards are dealt, and how hands rank — then drops you into a quiz: two players, five community cards, and one question. Who wins?
The Table & Seat Positions
A full-ring game seats up to nine players. A dealer button marks who "has the button" and it rotates one seat clockwise every hand, so every position passes around the table over time. Position names below are relative to that button.
Order of action: pre-flop, betting starts left of the big blind (UTG) and moves clockwise, with the big blind acting last. On every later street it starts with the first remaining player left of the button (the small blind) — so acting later, closer to the button, is a positional advantage.
Dealing Sequence
Each player is dealt two private hole cards, one at a time, clockwise starting with the small blind. Then five community cards are revealed in the middle across three stages, with a round of betting before each. (In a casino the dealer "burns" the top card of the deck before each stage.)
- Pre-flop — everyone looks at their two hole cards and bets.
- The Flop — the first three community cards come out together, then betting.
- The Turn — a fourth community card (the "fourth street"), then betting.
- The River — the fifth and final community card ("fifth street"), then the last betting round.
At showdown, each remaining player makes their best five-card hand out of the seven available to them (their two hole cards plus the five on the board — any combination). Best five-card hand wins; equal hands split ("chop") the pot.
Hand Rankings
Ten categories, strongest to weakest. Within the same category, the higher cards win (and if those are equal too, the next "kicker" card decides).
Quiz — Who Wins?
Ten hands. Each shows two players' hole cards and the five community cards. Pick the winner — or hit Chop if the best hands tie. Your time and accuracy are tracked.