How to Deal a Game of Texas Hold'em

Video Transcript

"Hi my name Ernie Crespo with Expert Village and today I'm going to teach you the fundamentals of Texas holdem. In this section I"m going to teach you about dealing a Texas holdem game. As I mentioned in the earlier step there is a dealer button. If I'm in the home game and I'm playing with four other individual players and I'm the dealer I'm always going to start with dealing to the left. The first person to the left gets the first card, the second person to the left gets the second card. The third player gets the third card, the fourth player gets the fourth card and then I would deal myself. This is denoted by a five person game notice that the next card goes immediately to the left followed in suit to the third player, then the fourth player and I, the dealer gets the last card. Cards are then placed on the floor then all players look at their cards. After you've dealt two cards to each player the next move as the dealer is to burn the first card off the top of the deck. That card is considered a dead card and no player is allowed to see it. You immediately then will flip over three cards in a row, these three cards are considered the flop. Again there is a round of betting, if there is no round of betting, or if the betting is complete you then proceed to the next fourth card. The first card if you're dealing in this part is you also, you once again will burn off the top of the deck, you always make sure the card is facing downward so that no employee gets an advantage and sees the card. That card is also dead. The next immediate card off the top of the deck is considered your turn card, here as denoted by our seven of diamonds. Once again all the action begins to the left of the dealer button. The little blind will be the first to act, followed by the big blind and so forth. After the action is all completed on the turn card the next top card once again is burned. Face down it's burned to the side. The next available card off the top of the deck becomes your last and final card also known as the river card. The deck is placed on top of the burned cards and slid to the left. Now action once again becomes to the left of the dealer button. Little blind, big blind and the rest of the action. Finally completing all action by the dealer button who has the last action of the game."