Excalibur electronic WR39-RS-CC manual Playing Texas Hold ‘Em, Odds

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Playing Texas Hold ‘Em
1. To determine the Dealer, each	Dealer’s left and subsequent play-
player is dealt a card. The player	ers can CALL, RAISE, FOLD			until
with the highest card is the first	every player has placed the same
Dealer. (The Dealer shifts to left	amount in the pot. If no player has
after each hand.) The Dealer icon	RAISED, the actions available to
is displayed on the television. That	the player who has placed the big
player presses the DEAL/CHIPS but-	blind are		CHECK, RAISE, and	FOLD.
ton on his or her controller to deal	Press the		STEP button on the con-
the cards. However, before the	troller to cycle through action
cards are dealt, the small blind and	icons and press the SELECT button
big blind are placed automatically	to confirm.
by the computer. The player to the	4. The FLOP (the first three com-
Dealer’s left places the small blind	munity cards) is dealt and the sec-
(half of the low limit) and the sec-	ond	betting round begins.		The
ond player to the Dealer’s left	first player to the Dealer’s left can
places the big blind (equal to the	BET,	CHECK or FOLD. When there
low limit).	is a	BET, the subsequent players
2. Each player receives two	can	CALL, RAISE, or FOLD		until
cards face down (the Hole cards).	every player has placed the same
Each player can see his or her hole	amount into the pot.
cards on his controller’s LCD.	ODDS
ODDS
	After the FLOP, a player can
After the hole cards have been	press the		ODDS button to see the
dealt, each player can press the	chance of improving his hand on
ODDS button on the controller to	the next card.
see his or her CHANCE TO WIN. The	Pressing the ODDS button the
percentage is displayed on the	first time will show the probabili-
controller’s LCD. Press the ODDS	ty of improving to the highest pos-
button again to display the hole	sible hand. Both the name of the
cards.	hand and the probability will be
3. The first betting round	displayed on the controller’s LCD.
begins. The third player to the	Press ODDS a second time to see

the probability of improving to the
next best hand, and so on. When
only the percentage is shown, this
indicates the overall probability of
improving	your current hand.
Press ODDS	again to display the
hole cards.

5. The (the fourth commu- nity card)TURNis dealt and the third betting round begins. The first player to the Dealer’s left can ,

or . When there BETis a

CHECK, the subsequentFOLD players can

BET , , or until every playerCALL RAISEhas placedFOLDthe same amount into the pot.

ODDS

After the , check your again toTURNsee your chances of

improvingODDS our hand with the upcoming final card!

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6. The (the fifth commu- nity card)RIVERis dealt and the fourth betting round begins. The first player to the Dealer’s left can ,

or . When there BETis a

CHECK, the subsequentFOLD players can

BET , , or until every playerCALL RAISEhas placedFOLDthe same amount into the pot.

ODDS

After the has been dealt, you will noRIVERlonger be able to

check your . All the cards have been dealtODDS- now you just have to decide how to play them!

7. ! The player with the SHOWDOWNhighest-ranking five-card poker hand of the seven cards (the two hole cards plus the five com- munity cards) wins the pot.

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