Poker

Poker is the collective name of a group of card games in casino's, at home or on the internet are played. International falls under the Poker skill games. In the Netherlands the Government places under the gambling games, although the Court in Amsterdam on 23-1-2014 in three similar things differently ruled. [1]  since april 2010, the International Mind Sports Association recognized as a think sport. [2]

The most popular form of poker at the beginning of the 21st century is Texas Hold 'em.



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[hide] *1 game play of one hand  ==Game play of one hand[ Edit] == There are many different variations of poker, but they have some similarities. So there are always multiple betting rounds and when at least two players have not yet due after that betting rounds, a showdown. In doing so, usually the best poker handWINS, although there are variants in which the worst possible hand wins (lowball). If one player is left because all the other players due, then wins the pot and that he need not to show his cards. When there is not yet deployed, a player can turn so the check and pass on his opponent. The other option is to bet (bets). If it is already deployed, can choose to call (the bet pay), to raise (increase the bet) orfold (fit). Already made bets are part of the pot and can not be taken back.
 * 2 Bluff
 * 3 forms of poker
 * 3.1 Cash games versus tournaments
 * 3.2 Limits
 * 4 Poker hands
 * 4.1 Five of a Kind (poker)
 * 4.2 Opportunities
 * 5 History
 * 5.1 China and Middle East
 * 5.2 Europe
 * 5.3 America
 * 5.4 rise of Texas Hold'em
 * 5.5 World Series of Poker
 * 6 Poker in Netherlands
 * 7 Poker in Belgium
 * 8 Online poker
 * 9 Poker on TV
 * 10 see also
 * 11 References

A "poker hand" is in most game types formed from the best possible combination of 5 cards, even though one has more or less cards in hand. It is possible that all five cards out of control used (e.g. 5 Card Draw), or that one or more community cards (open cards that can be used by all players), as in Hold'em or Omaha. It is also possible that no card in the player's hand is used and only community cards.

Unlike for example checkers or chess, poker is a game of incomplete information. It is not known what the opponents for cards in the hand. It is to be by experience, insight (in the game and in the opponents play mode or behavior whereby these are cards "betrays") and estimate probability what the best Act. The best way of playing is achieved as the way of playing is accessed which would apply if the cards of the opponent would be known. Typically if a poker player keeps goal in mind the decision that yields the most in the long term.

Poker chipsPoker is usually played with chips ( chips in poker jargon) that a money value (in cash games) or points (in tournaments) proposals. Due to the popularity in America also has poker in Netherlands and Belgium a primarily English language jargon. For most poker terms is called a Dutch translation, but predominantly English words are used to express actions or to poker situations.

Poker is a game with no official rules; There are only generally accepted unofficial rules and etiquette forms which are used all over the world. While poker is it possible that the dealer or player (s) mistakes are made with regard to the rules. For the most made mistakes by dealers, see dealer errors. ==Bluff[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">A particular aspect of the poker is bluffing. This means that one gives the impression to have better cards than in reality, to the opponent (s) to make it fit, with the purpose of the pot to pick it up.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">As a relatively poor Player cards, then he can instead of trying to adapt in such a way that it looks like he has good cards. That can by betting and/or further increase someone else's bet, or a way to behave in such a way as if his hand is very strong. A bluff is successful when the other players fit, making the bluffer wins the pot.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The slow play is the opposite way to bluff. The player has good maps, but plays as if he has fewer good cards in the hope that the opponent with a lesser hand or increases. Many players walk that way against the lamp because the opponents so cheap other tickets can wait and can improve their poker hand.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">When a bluff succeeded and the pot is won, the player need not show the cards because it is not until a showdown has come. However, the bluff can be shown to a image ("table image") to put down in order to reap the benefits later in the game. As the boastful player later in the game have a good hand and has built up a big pot, the opponent can be more inclined to pay the bet because of the image of the player.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The mechanics of bluffing is retrieved in many other card and Board Games. At poker is considered by many people often automatically the link with bluffing and is often forgotten that poker is much more than bluffing. A good player tries every time the optimal decision and there are cases where that may be bluffing. ==Types of poker<span class="mw-editsection" len="328" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">There are numerous types of poker games. Every form of poker has its own characteristic possibilities in terms of betting, bluffing and insight in the hand of the opponent. The most played types belong to one of three groups:


 * Draw poker
 * All players receive a number of ' dense ' cards. For the poker hand can have one or multiple cards be replaced with cards from the remaining stick cards.


 * Stud poker
 * The players receive cards which one (or more) open and so visible to the other players. There may be no cards be replaced as in draw poker. Well-known examples are 5 Card Stud and 7 Card Stud.


 * Community card poker
 * All players will receive one or more individual cards, then one or more cards are turned face up. This open cards act as "community cards" (community cards or ' the board '). Each player has the ability to combine the cards in his hand with the open cards to the best possible poker hand (five cards) to form. In the case that the best five cards are possible in a few types of poker is any map to use out of control: one speaks then of ' playing the board '. Two popular variations of Texas Hold'em poker are community map-and Omaha (Hold'em) respectively two and four hand cards plus a "board" of five cards.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">An (incomplete) list of poker shapes:

<p lang="en" len="278" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Variants of poker where not against fellow players, but by the bank (a casino) is played are:
 * 2-7 Draw
 * 5 Card Draw
 * 5 Card Stud
 * 7 Card Stud
 * 7 Card Stud Eight or Better
 * 8-Game, a game in which changed to an agreed time is between eight different poker variants
 * 10-Game, a game in which changed to an agreed time is between ten different poker variants
 * Ace to Five Draw
 * Anaconda poker
 * Badugi, a game with four (shielded) cards per hand per person
 * Poker Baseball, a variant of stud poker
 * Blind man's Bluff
 * Chapeau (poker), a dice game with special dice.
 * Big Two, or Chinese poker
 * Cincinnati Poker
 * Dealer's choice, a game where the employer determines which form of poker there that hand is played.
 * H.O.R.S.E., a game where multiple forms be poker played (Hold'em, Omaha High, S Razz, even Card Stud, Seven Card Stud Eight or Better)
 * Omaha High (Hold'em)
 * Omaha High/Low (Hold'em)
 * Pineapple, at which one gets three cards, from which one must wegliggen after seeing the flop, for the rest, there are the same rules as in Texas Hold'em
 * Razz
 * Texas Hold 'em

===Cash games versus tournaments<span class="mw-editsection" len="340" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In a cash game is played directly to money . In Exchange for money and a player gets chips at any time (except during a hand), a player can decide to stop and his chips to exchange for money back. Usually there is a minimum buy-in and a maximum buy-in fixed, although it may happen that a player may buy as much as he wants. It is also always possible to buy (English: reload) on condition that he has no more than the maximum purchase for itself alone. The height of the bets during a cash game is determined by the limits of the poker game. For example, a cash game often named with the blinds that are used. A ' 5-5 No Limit Hold'em cash game ' than a cash game of the mentioned variant in which both the small blind and the big blind five euros.
 * 3 Card Poker
 * Carribean Stud Poker
 * Deuces Wild
 * Pai Gow Poker
 * Video poker

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">At a tournament is for the start of the tournament by everyone paid a deposit with which one obtains tournament chips. A tournament ends usually when only one player remains, and all others so are eliminated. The goal at tournaments is to achieve such a result that money WINS. Typically, ten to fifteen percent the players who were the longest in the tournament paid out, while all other players recover nothing and therefore their panty lost see it go. The payout structure of poker tournaments is almost always ' top heavy ', which means that the sums are relatively high for the best classified players and the payout ' flattens ' for the lower qualifying players. Unlike a cash game, the blind bets in a tournament at scheduled times increased according to a set schedule, so reduce the relative value of the chips. In this way, the Organization will come to an end when a tournament plan well. Depending on the tournament format, it is sometimes possible to again once or more during the tournament itself in to buy, through a ' rebuy ', in which one pays for a new stack of chips. ===Limits<span class="mw-editsection" len="320" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Poker has many commitment form, which it bet heavily influence behavior. The most common bet types are:

==Poker Hands<span class="mw-editsection" len="323" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == Examples of card combinations according to declining value<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">A poker hand consists of five cards each and the next card combinations are differentiated, ordered by least to most likely, at the same time of most to least valuable. In most poker variants, the pot is won by the player with the best poker hand after the betting rounds can present when it comes to a showdown.
 * Limit: the small and big blind (small and big blind) are fixed, one should increase the maximum bet with once the blind bet and re-raise with once again the blind bet. Often one should total three times an increase (raise) per round of betting do. After one or two following betting rounds can the bet in certain variants.
 * No Limit : one should increase by at least the big blind, without a maximum bet. The maximum bet is the player has for itself all the chips (all-in).
 * Spread limit: the maximum bet is some times the big blind, making these poker form between limit and no limit will be placed.
 * Pot limit: the maximum bet is determined by the size of the pot. Initiate the blind bets the game, afterwards the minimal increase in the big blind and the maximum increase the pot.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">If multiple players fight the pot and be ready with bets, the hands are shown (showdown). In such a case the pot to win the player must show all of his cards, even if it's based on a single card already would be enough to win the pot.
 * Royal flush: five consecutive cards of the same rank, with the ACE high. For Example: Q♠ a♠ k♠ j♠ 10♠.
 * Straight flush: five consecutive cards of the same suit. For Example: Q♦ j♦ 10♦ 9♦ 8♦
 * Four of a kind: also called called carré or quads, four cards of the same value. For Example: 4 4 4 4 ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 9 ♥
 * Full house: three cards of the same rank, combined with two cards of another same value. For Example: 8♣ 8♠ 8♦ k♠ k♥
 * Flush: any five cards of the same suit. For Example: K ♠ ♠ ♠ ♠ ♠ J 8 4 3.
 * Straight: Street. Five consecutive cards of any kind in value. (The ACE can be used as higher than the Lord, or as one, so lower than the two) For Example: 3♠ 5♦ 4♥ 2 ♦ a♦
 * Three of a kind: also called trips or set. Three cards of the same value. For Example: 7 7 7 ♥ ♣ ♠ K ♦ 2 ♠
 * Two pair: two pair, two cards of equal value, combined with a few cards of another same value. For Example: A♣ a♦ 8 ♥ 8♠ q♠.
 * One pair: a pair. Two cards of the same value. For Example: a♣ 9♠ J 9 ♥ ♠ 4♥
 * High card: also known as No pair or high. The highest card counts, which the two as lowest and ACE applies. In this example, the hand from "Ace high" or "ACE high". For Example: A♦ 10♦ 9♠ 5♣ 4♣

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">When one or more players have the same hand value, for example, one pair of ACEs, then wins the player with the highest corresponding maps as a poker hand consists of five cards each time. First looks at the highest corresponding card (kicker) and if that also would be equal is further compared. Only when both players submit the exact same combination of five cards, the pot is split between these players (split pot). When an indivisible remainder in the pot, it is awarded to the player closest to the left of the dealer. If it is a poker variant without dealer, the remainder at the dedication of the following hand added. Example of split pot in Texas Hold'em: one player has a♠ 5♣ and the other player A ♥ 3 ♦ while the five community cards a♣ k♠8♥ 8 ♦ 9 ♣ are. In this case, both players have two pair of ACEs and eights and is their highest accompanying map a King.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In addition, there are certain variations (for example, 7 Card Stud Eight or Better) where the intention is to the pot to share between different players. Usually then split between the best hand and the "worst" hand (provided that certain conditions are met). ===Five of a Kind (poker)<span class="mw-editsection" len="334" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In some types of poker can prevent a joker, leaving an extra card combination possible is: Five of a kind, also called "poker" called. This card combination than the highest combination that is possible, with a♠ a♥ a♦ a♣ Joker as the top five of a kind. One can also agree that a wildcard may be used only for a map that one does not have and then ' Five of a kind is not possible. A card that acts as a wild card is also called "wild" called, so are the two "wild" at "Deuces Wild".

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Example of a split pot: when there are two pair on the board and no player has a hand better than these two pairs, then counts the highest card dealt to the player. It is a split pot when both players have the same highest card in the hand. (The second card plays no role more.) ===Opportunities<span class="mw-editsection" len="318" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The table below shows the probability on a particular combination if there are five cards from the game randomly drawn. The opportunities are different as the players can exchange cards: they will usually discard cards of lesser value, resulting in an additional probability of a combination. ==History<span class="mw-editsection" len="324" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">On the precise origin of the poker game is a lot of discussion. Before we begin we first take a brief look at the history of card games in General. ===China and Middle East<span class="mw-editsection" len="335" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">For the year 1000 the Chinese already knew a card game that is reminiscent of the contemporary domino. Most likely the Chinese so the first game developed with paper maps. This is the reason that there are people who think that Marco Polo the map-concept has taken to the West, but this seems very unlikely as he has documented his travels extensively and here nowhere in writes about a card game.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In Persia (modern Iran) was hundreds of years ago even though played a card game called Âs Nas and one played in India even though several card games. There are theories that the Oriental card games as forerunners of the later European card games and poker designate. The strong extent to which a number of game concepts match only strengthen these theories. The maps were divided into different colors (better known as "suits") and it was played with hand strengths. Also was there by Persia in the 17th and 18th centuries many with France acted. So it is very likely that the Persian game has had its influence on the European card games. ===Europe<span class="mw-editsection" len="319" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In Europe is there for the first time over a card game written in the year 1377 by the South German monk Johannes von Rheinfelden. From ancient writings show that after this year suddenly pop up card games throughout Europe. Manuscripts after 1377 are full of references to gambling with cards. It is unclear how exactly these card games have arisen, as already described above, there has never been evidence for Eastern influences on European card games for the 17th century.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The first European card game that exhibits great deals with poker, it is called pochspiel that in the 15th century was played in Germany. The game knew betting rounds, hand strengths and offered the player the chance to get his hands to bluff. In the 17th century in France a game called poque that seems directly from the pochspiel. Not only the game but also a Renaissance called pochspiel primero and a parent French card game called poque stand at the cradle of Mahdi. As already described, it is possible that there are also Eastern influences of application have been on the development of the French card game by the trade which at that time was driven with Persia.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The games started in Europe at that time were already pretty much characteristics of Poker as we know it today. Early 18th century there arose in England a card game called brag. In this game did the concepts of blinds, pot and flush their entry into the map world. So get more and more form the history of Poker. ===America<span class="mw-editsection" len="320" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">From the time that Europeans began to colonize America on a large scale is the development of the poker game gained momentum. It is certain that the Europeans play their cards and therefore took their card to America and the English of course had the largest share in. The different community and were also known as lying game.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In the early 19th century were the brag play and the games become so popular in the United States lying that even Indians-tribes occupied themselves with the game. The game is spread from New Orleans to the West.In the Wild West got the game a good chance to settle, the cards and gambling fitted well with the adventurist types who pulled to the West. There prevailed relatively few rules compared to the more conservative East Coast, which was divided in an even more conservative South and the North.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">From 1830 got the conservative South more barrel on the culture in the West and was cracked down against gambling. Professional gamblers were from cities and there have been cases where gamblers were lynched.The professional gamblers should no longer play their games on the Mainland and sought their way out to the so-called riverboats on the Mississippi. Casino roulette wheels and other heavy equipment were not so suitable to take with you on the famous steam boats and the gamblers focus primarily on card games that went on the boats came in better if the cheating games. In this period also pops up on the word poker for the first time in a writings of Jonathan h. Green. He does in 1837 report of this play and comes to the conclusion that there is still no official name for exists and he calls it poker. Where the name came from is not clear, most likely, the name comes from the French poque or the German poche, but it is also possible that the name originates from the verb to poke, a term used by thieves. This was in fact at the underground nature of the game.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">During the period of the "riverboatgamblers" won the gambling back to popularity and benefited from the large number of men that came to the West by the California gold rush (1848-1855). In this new area shots professional gambling houses like mushrooms out of the ground. In the beginning was still not as popular as other gambling poker because you don't use your full capital could at one time such as, for example, in Roulette. But after a while more and more players fell for the charm of poker.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Almost 100 years long, the game was still subject to all kinds of change, the draw was added and there are community cards devised so that the game could be played with more players. Many changes are created by professional cheaters who had new ways ignorant in this way to make money from. From 1920 was the game as established in the American culture that women also started to play the game. The game is been always been a game from birth for all walks of life and all types of population groups. This was, of course, at the American mentality of a free country with possibilities.

<p lang="en" len="780" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">During the first world war, the Second World War and the war in Viet Nam, the Americans the game continues around the world and today it is the most well-known and played card game in the world. ===Rise of Texas Hold'em<span class="mw-editsection" len="338" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">From the beginning of the rise of poker is poker been subject to development and fashion. Different forms poker followed each other on as the most popular form of that time. In the years ' 70 of the 20th century was the tournament-poker becoming increasingly popular, as opposed to the standard ' cash game '. The poker variant Texas Hold'em became ever more the first choice for tournaments. The use of community cards in Hold'em meant a greater insight into the situation at the table, making playing techniques and tactics could be extended. This is in contrast to poker play with a bigger bluff element. Texas Hold 'em has a tremendous growth in recent years, and is the best known and most played 2010 form of poker. It owes its popularity to tv shows in which a "hole cam" or "pocket cam" was used, as with the "World Poker Tour" and the "World Series of Poker". The fact that with these cameras the cards of all players were visible to the public, and with it the insight into the tactics and how to play the poker players, meant an enormous progress in viewers numbers. The result was an explosive growth in the number of poker players in America and also in the rest of the world shortly thereafter. Poker was by an anonymous gambling game become a tv sports at one time, with which the old fashioned ' smoky rooms ' image in short time disappeared. ===World Series of Poker<span class="mw-editsection" len="334" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The World Series of Poker (WSOP) is a poker tournament that is organized annually since 1970 in Las Vegas. Several dozen participants in the early years this tournament has become the biggest and most prestigious poker tournament in the world. In 2006, the WSOP 45 poker tournaments with different inlays and intent, with many thousands of participants in total. The entry fee for the ' master program (main event) ' amounted to $ 10,000 but nevertheless counted more than 8000 entries. The top prize for the winner was released on $ 12 million. A victory in the WSOP has many poker players world made famous (see the list of winners of the WSOP Main Event). The profit of 2003 Chris Moneymaker in which he won $ 2.5 million (after internet kwalificatietoernooi $ 39) speaks to the imagination. Since then, the number of participants in the WSOP has increased significantly: from 839 in 2003 to 8773 in 2006, when a corresponding increase of the prize money originated. On June 18, 2008 Rob Hollink won Dutch first World Series of Poker bracelet, he won the $ 10,000 limit championship tournament, and with it $ 496.931,-prize money. ==Poker in Netherlands<span class="mw-editsection" len="331" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == PokerTH, a poker program.<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">As in many European countries is in Netherlands since the beginning of the 21st century, with a great interest for poker arise due to strong growth in the number of organized poker tournaments and cash games (outside the Holland Casino to). On schools and universities is poker with rapidly becoming a ' stayer ' to becoming.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Following the Netherlands ' poker craze "in a political debate about whether poker is a game of chance is a game of skill . This related to the State of Holland Casino monopoly on gaming and the legality of by third parties organised tournaments and internet poker. The Supreme Court has considered that poker is a game of chance.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-6" len="157" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [6]  the College has advised to Monitor Gambling poker as bingo to deal with.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-7" len="157" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [7]  The Minister of Justice has, however, confirmed the judgment of the Supreme Court in 2007, also referring to most other European countries where poker as gambling is seen.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-8" len="157" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [8]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">On July 2, 2010, the Court in the Hague in a case against an organizer of poker tournaments from that poker is not a game of chance.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-9" len="157" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [9]  the Court pointed out that never has been proven scientifically convincing that poker is a game of chance would be. That the game in other countries are regarded as gaming does not automatically mean that it is so.Is it direct appeal.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-10" len="159" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [10]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">On 23 August came the Advisory Committee to legalize internet poker games of chance with the opinion. The advice to proceed to regulation is limited to online poker, the motivation is that poker relative to other casino games brings less addiction problems.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-11" len="159" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [11]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Please note: poker is and continues to be ' gambling ', by definition. One focuses on opportunities, one does not know what the outcome will be. However, poker offers, because one can calculate odds and tactics can adapt to various situations, as one of the few gambling games a chance to bekwaming (i.e. long-term profitability). It is possible to make decisions in poker (actions) that may be beneficial to its profit growth expectation in the long run. This places poker according to many within the Group of the "skill games" and outside the Group of the "games of chance".

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">According to the remote gambling Bill will clarify that poker for the Law on gambling and the gambling tax is regarded as gaming. At landbased poker tournaments according to this proposal, the gambling tax is levied at the provider about the gross game showing as well as which the provider receives for giving the opportunity to participate in poker tournaments. The gross game result is nil, which on balance in practice the toernooifee the tax base is. This mode of taxation (casino regime) is proposed despite the fact that a poker tournament does not have the characteristics of a casino game: the latter is characterized by a rapid succession of games and bets and benefits that go back and forth between players and the bank. A poker tournament is one game as a whole. ==Poker in Belgium<span class="mw-editsection" len="328" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Poker gambling game in Belgium is still considered a pur sang. Only since the end of 2007 it is also allowed to organize and play poker for casinos since 20 april 2010 is also in 180 to organize entertainment centres allowed cash-games on automatic poker tables.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-12" len="159" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [12]  as a result, there are no top players such as Belgium also knows that in the surrounding countries. The first Belgian WSOP bracelet winner Davidi Kitai is that collected $ 244.546 in 2008 when he won the $ 2,000 Pot Limit Hold'Em tournament. Belgium has no prestigious tournaments.

<p lang="en" len="99" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In Belgium it is forbidden to organize or to gambling for money even to participate.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">For "live poker" is specified, however, that the law only applies to games where there is a bet, unless that commitment falls within "socially acceptable standards". The Gambling Commission itself € 0.22 € 6,20 as input and yield as suggested as an example. ==Online poker<span class="mw-editsection" len="325" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In addition to live Poker also widely played on the internet, usually on specific for that purpose established poker sites. General gaming companies such as Betfair, Unibet, Ladbrokes and William Hill poker also offer in addition to. Besides the lack of physical interaction between players, is also the number of hands per hour played on internet higher than in a live game. This mainly because the computer systems after having played hands to take no cards and shaking, but can share directly again.

<p lang="en" len="49" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">To the biggest poker websites include:

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In a significant number of countries offering online poker is prohibited by law, such as in the Netherlands and United States. To avoid persecution, housing big poker sites their servers therefore usually in exotic places, or locations as Malta and Isle of Man.
 * 888 Poker (formerly Pacific Poker)
 * Absolute Poker
 * Everest Poker
 * Full Tilt Poker
 * Party Poker
 * PKR
 * PokerStars
 * Titan Poker
 * Unibet

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In Belgium the situation is reversed. All providers of online poker be required to run their servers on Belgian territory and to have a casino license. Currently have three online poker providers on a test license. Golden Palace, the Belgian provider of the Ongame platform, has its casino license through his own group of gaming rooms. Partouche is a group of casinos in Belgium and beyond. PokerStars also has a license, making Belgians are obliged to play poker on PokerStars.be to be able to play on the network. ==Poker on TV<span class="mw-editsection" len="331" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==
 * The Big Game
 * Durrrr Million Dollar Challenge
 * European High Roller (cash game )
 * High Stakes Poker
 * Late Night Poker
 * Late Night Stars of Poker
 * Learn from the Pros
 * Lords of Poker (reality)
 * Million Dollar Cash Game (cash game )
 * More Than Just A Game (reality)
 * Poker After Dark
 * Poker Uncovered (reality)
 * Poker champion of Netherlands
 * All the above programs are (also) on a Dutch channel broadcast. Programs with regular coverage of poker events are not included in the list