How to Bet in Texas Holdem

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"Hi my name is Elizabeth Pow with expert village we are going to go over player action in depth the first action of player can have is what you will call a check, a check means you make a bet of zero dollars, for example let's say it's the green players turn to have the action against my right of the dealer button of the players left. I say to him that it's his action he's happy with his cards and wants to see what everyone else's is going to bet, he says check. He denotes a check by tapping on the table, the red player also checks, blue can check, white can check, black can check which mean no ones bet but, we continue with the action of the game that is called a check a bet of zero dollars. The next player action is called a bet, pretty obvious once again let us say it's the green players turn to bet, again it's to the right, my right of the dealer button he wants to bet two checks, know once we go around everyone action, they must put in at least two chips in order to play the hand. I will collect all of those chips and put them in the pot. That was his bet and everybody else did what?s called a call. A call in poker is when you agree to only the amount that was bet before you so he put in two, the red player essentially called by also put in two, the blue player called, the white player and the black player, the green player made the bet but everybody else made a call, and once again I take everyone bets, and put it in the pot. Let's talk about raising and folding, so let's go back into the example with the green player once again is the first person wants to make a choice with their money, they are to my right of the dealer button and the left of the player, so let's say this person wants to bet two, the high big blond and let's say the red player says I have a pretty good hand, so I'm down for your two, and I will like to raise it two more, that's raise now we go around the table, now this player the blue, the blue player must put in at least four chips if they want to play the game. So let's say the blue player says okay, I'll see your four, the white player looks at his cards and say I don't think I have a great hand they bet nothing and fold their cards, they have these two cards that they fold and I muk, the black also puts in four and it comes back around to the green player, and he looks in his hand and says maybe yes, I don't want to go in for that much, so he leaves in his two and don't have to put anything else in, now I collect once again all of the chips and put them into the pot. Those are examples of raising and folding."