How to Play Guts Poker

Series Summary

Poker is a game of wits, intuition, and guts, and in the Poker world, Texas hold 'em is the high roller. Due to its popularity derived from televised tournaments, Texas hold 'em, has stacked up the fans and cashed in on a a booming niche market. Whether its stud, draw, or a community game you play, this series can be your ace in the hole! So call your neighbor's bluff, get your poker face ready, and up the ante when his chips are down, and who knows, maybe someday you'll be sporting one of those famed World Series Of Poker bracelets.

In this free video series, our expert Reg Brittain will teach you how to play guts poker. He will teach you how to deal the cards, the rules and gameplay, how to drop works, and what happens if two or more players stay in the game. Reg will also teach you how to match the pot, how the pot builds, why match limits are important, and how to end the game. He will also teach you variations on the game like hand in the middle and the weenie rule. Finally, Reg will show you some good and bad hands in guts and show you a couple of full hands of guts so you can get a real feel for the game.

Video Transcript

"We're going to talk now about a very simple poker variant called guts. It's a game that I have been playing since high school, we were high school kids, we have it a different name but we're going to call it guts that is what it's best know as in the poker circles. What it is is a very simple game it's dealt and played very simply. I mean you only get two cards but the price rises to keep playing; it can go and up. I was in high school I heard a story that my classmates who won a trip got into a game of guts and ended up having to lose $200 on a pot. This was in the 80s and we were in high school so $200 was a lot of money but it gives you an example of how a price can rise when you play guts. Like I said it's a lot of fun, you can set limits so why not we just dive into it and see how much fun it is."