How to Play Poker: For Beginners

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Black Jack, and I'm here to show you how to play poker for beginners. Essentially, with poker, you want to have at least five people playing. It just makes the game a little more fun. You can go less. It just isn't as much fun. You can go a couple of more, but five is kind of the number you're shooting for. Once you've got five players, make sure you bring some adult beverages and, of course, a deck of cards and some money to play with. The thing you should learn about with any kind of poker game -- there are variations of numerous ones -- but the main thing is you want the five best cards you can get. Right here, we have a list of all the hands that you could win with. The first hand that would be is the high card. Whatever...whoever has the high card of all the people there, if that's the best hand, they're the winner. And next up you'd want is a pair -- that is the other hand. And as we go down the list here, you'll see the chances of getting these become greater and greater. It's more difficult to get the better hands. Next up you have is two pair. Two pair will beat the preceding two hands. The following after that will be three of a kind. Again, three of a kind will beat two pair, one pair, and a high card. After that, we have a straight. A straight is a series of cards in numerical order, and they don't have to be of any suit. After that, we have a flush. A flush is a five cards of the same suit. Then we come right down, we have what we call a full house. That would be three of a kind and a pair. After that, again, it would be four of a kind. Right here, you're showing four kings. These are examples of the different hands. Again, moving right down, we've got a straight flush, which is a five cards of the same suit in numerical order. And then, of course, the ultimate hand you want is the royal flush, which is with the ace, king, queen, jack, ten of the same suit. This one will top all the rest and you don't see it that often, so if you get that one, bet your brains out. And of course, some other things you'll need to know with when you're playing poker is if you want to check, that means if you're the first one placing the bet, you can check where you don't have to bet any money. Of course, the main thing with poker is you want to bet. That would be placing a bet. And then, of course, you can raise, which will be raising the previous person's bet by X number of dollars or however you want. And then, of course, after that, you can fold, which would be getting rid of all your cards and cashing in. And the last thing would be if you...with...one of the other terms is ante. You want to ante, that'll be predetermined when...before you start your game. And that's some tips on how to play poker for beginners, and thanks a lot."