The game is Texas Hold 'em Limit Poker. It takes ten minutes to learn and a lifetime to master. You'll be playing in a three-tier, freeze-out tournament against up to 27 simulated opponents. When you run out of chips, you're out. But if you win everyone's chips, you keep advancing to the next table until you're the champion!

House Rules

| Qualifying | Semi's | Finals
Starting Chips | 1,000 | 10,000 | 100,000
Starting Blinds | 10-20 | 100-200 | 1,000-2,000

- The blinds increase every 6 hands. For example: 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600, 1000, 2000, 3000.
- All bets (and raises) must be equal to the current Big Blind.
- Maximum number of raises per betting round (by all players): 3
- Table stakes are played. This means if you run out of chips during a hand, you may only win a side pot.

How to Play

You're in Seat 1. The Dealer button marks the player who gets the advantage of acting last in each betting round. The Little Blind and Big Blind buttons mark the players who must bet and raise blind, before seeing any cards dealt. These buttons rotate around the table each hand.

1. Each active player is dealt two pocket cards face down. (Yours will be shown face up, but the other players can't see them.)
2. The first betting round follows, starting with the player after the Big Blind and rotating clockwise. Here are the actions that can be taken in a betting round:

- Check: To choose not to place a bet, but to stay in the pot "for free" until someone else places a bet and forces you to act. Only available when the betting round has not been opened by a previous bet. Also called a pass.
- Call: To match, or see any previous bets and stay in the pot.
- Bet: To open the betting round by adding chips to the pot.
- Raise: To simultaneously call all previous bets and add even more chips to the pot, forcing everyone else to call, raise or fold.
- Fold: To surrender your cards and any chips you have invested in the pot.

In this first round (only), when the action gets back around to the Big Blind, that player still has the option to check or raise, unless another player has raised.
3. Once the pot is good (all players have put in the same number of chips), the next card is burned and then three cards are dealt face up to the community hand in the middle of the table (which is shared by everyone). These three cards are called the flop.
4. The second betting round starts with the first active player after the Dealer.
5. Another card is burned and then the turn card is dealt.
6. There is a third betting round.
7. One last card is burned and then the river card is dealt.
8. After a fourth and final betting round, there is a showdown between the remaining hands. You make your best five-card poker hand from any combination of your two pocket cards and the five community cards. The best hand takes the pot, but if there is a tie the pot is split.