Game play overview

Hold 'em has been called the purest form of poker for a good reason, it takes wits and bravery to be a good hold 'em player.
It is played with 2 hole cards and 5 community cards.
Each player is given 2 cards called the hole or pocket cards.
Before any more cards are dealt, there is a round of betting.
Then 3 cards called the flop are dealt face up on the table.
Eventually there will be 5 cards dealt face up on the table, these are considered community cards, and each player makes the best 5 card hand they can from the seven total cards.
After the flop, another round of betting takes place.
Then another card is dealt, this is called the turn.
After another betting round, the final card called the river is dealt.
Following the river, one last round of betting goes down, and the player with the best 5 cards wins the pot.
Don't worry about all the terms though, it is much easier to play than it might sound here

Playing online

For cash games ,go to cash tables to find an existing gamewhere you can click the table name to join, or you can go to the new table link to create your own game with your own rules
You start out with $10,000 in chips.
Once two or more people are sitting at a normal table, the game will start by dealing out the cards.
There is also another type of game called sit and go.
With sit and go tables, you pay an entry fee, then the top three finishers left with money split the pot 20, 30 and 50 percent, with the 50 percent going to the last person with money.
With the sit and go or sag games as we call them, you sit down with whatever money you paid in the entry fee. When that money is gone, you are out of the game.
The format is all in, which means you can bet up to the entire amount of chips you have at any time.

When you run out of money

If you run below $10000 ,you can generate money by simulating hands.
To do this, go to the simulation table from the main hold em page.
Once you join, press either f 5 for simulating five card hands or f 7 for seven card hands then enter the number of hands you wish to generate.
You get money depending on how many royal flushes you make.
Initially, you get $1000 for every royal generated with 5 card simulation, and $20 with seven cards.
You are allowed to simulate up to three times per day, however each time you simulate in that 24 hour period, the amount of money you receive for each royal flush is halved.
SO on your third simulation, you only get $250 per royal for five card hands for instance.
If you don't want to hear updates as it simulates, press f 6 before starting the simulation, you will only hear the beginning and results of simulation that way.
The odds of a royal with a 5 card hand are one in about 670,000, so you are looking at simulating millions of hands to get your money up.
The simulation sends its results to the server, so you can check and see how close the random generator is getting to actual poker odds., just go to the simulation results page to see this table

The game interface and hotkeys

I have tried to lay the game out in the most efficient way possible, to that end, you can do almost everything the game requires by placing your left hand on the main keyboard, and your right hand on the num pad.
To hear the cards, use the q w e and r keys.
The keys read your hole cards, the flop, the turn and river respectively
To see all cards dealt so far, including your hole cards, press the grov key just to the left of the number 1 on the number row
To make a bet when it is your turn, type in the amount you wish to bet and press enter.
C key calls or checks
You can also just hit enter to call or check if you don't raise
F key folds
B or D key reads the current bet
P or x key reads pot amount
H or s key reads your hand value, such as three of a kind, full house, etc.
z key tells you who is large and small blinds
The T key will tell you how much you are up or down that session
Tab will tell you who's turn it is. If you double tap the tab key, it will tell you your position on the table relative to the button
Shift r will repeat the results of the last hand
The function keys give you info about the other players from f1 to f10, this info includes name and amount of money the player has.
In Sit and go games, the V key will tell you the current blind amount and how much time is left at the current amount
In normal games, the v key will simply tell you how much the blinds are, as they do not double over time.
In a sit and go game, shift s will start the game if you are the table creator.
If someone is being abusive, cursing, etc. you can send an abuse report by pressing alt control r
To leave your seat temporarily, press alt p
Press alt p again to return to your seat.
Note that you will be folded automatically while you are away from your seat.
If you want to see how many chips you have total in your account, press control A
The U, I, and O keys will show your hole cards, starting with first card, second card or both cards respectively.
Note you can only show your hole cards if everyone folds to one player, this is good for letting your table mates know you were bluffing, or if you had a killer hand.
The j k and l keys allow you to play with your chips while waiting for your opponent to call, try them out, just there for fun.
Notice that a few of the keys have two options, such as checking hand with either h or s key.
This is done so you can do all commands with just your left hand without having to reach all over the keyboard.
I recommend trying this out, as it is much more efficient.

Chat and review commands

To send a chat message, press the spacebar to go to chat mode, type your message and press enter.
To review chat messages, press shift and the number row keys, this will review up to 10 messages.
Likewise, to review game messages, press control and the number row keys.
For instance, to review the last raise, you can press control 1
To send an action instead of a chat message, press control plus spacebar
You can also double tap spacebar to send an action

Joining a table

There are two types of hold em games you can join, either cash games or sit and gos.
By default, the open cash games are displayed on the main hold em page
There are three sections of cash games, the permanent tables, the public tables and private tables
To jump between the three types, just press h to move between headings.
The permanent tables are always there and ready for action.
The public tables are tables players have created that anyone can join.
Private tables are tables to which you have been sent a private invitation, you will only see the tables here to which you have been invited
To see the sit and go tables, go to the join a table heading, then tabl down to sit and go tables
The sit and go tables are laid out in the same manner, with permanent, public and private tables

Creating a table

One of the coolest features of the Blind Adrenaline card room is the ability to create your own custom tables
To make your own table with your own rules, go to the create a table heading, then tab down to either create a cash table or create a sit and go
For a cash table, you have the following options:
Large blind amount
Table type, the options here are no limit, pot limit or max bet limit.
If you choose max bet limit you will then need to select a max bet amount
Time limit, this sets how long a player has to act before they are folded
max sit down money, this allows you to select the maximum amount of money a player can bring to the table, this is good for keeping folks with monster stacks from joining your table and bullying everyone.
You can turn antes on by checking the automatic antes option, this will force each player to put up an ante amount equal to half the small blind amount each hand.
You can make the table r rated by checking the mature language option.
Note that r rated tables just means you can curse some basically, don't go overboard with this, this does not mean the table is x rated, nor does it erase the abuse rules.
After setting your options for the cash game, you can decide if your game is public or private by selecting the check box for private if that is what you want
If you want a private game, you will then need to tab down and select who you want to invite from a list of combo boxes.
You can select up to 9 other players to join your table
Each player you invite will be sent an email notifying them about the table.
Additionally, if your table is public, but you want to reserve a seat for a friend, you can select them from the drop down boxes, and a seat will be reserved with their name on it, only that person can sit there
The other seats will be available to all other players however

Creating a sit and go:

The options for creating a sit and go are:
Entry fee. This sets how much each player must put into the pot to join
Blind doubling interval. This sets the amount of time the blinds double
Time limit. Sets how much time a player has to act before being folded.
You can likewise turn on antes and mature language, just as in the cash games.
The options for creating a private table and inviting friends are the same as for cash games mentioned above.

Listening in

Each table has an option for listening.
Clicking on this link will put you in an observation room where you can hear the action and chat with the players.
If you are in the game and do not want to hear the observation room chat, press shift n to turn it off
Like wise, you can press control n to turn off observation room announcements so you don't hear when folks join or leave the observation room.
Finally, you can press the n key to see who is in the observation room

Using your screenreader or SAPI

if you have jaws, window eyes or system access installed, you can switch to your screenreader with the f 11 key
The following are for use with the sapi voice:
To adjust the voice, you hold down the control key and press the keys commonly referred to as the six pack, these keys are usually found above the arrow keys.
Control plus Insert and delete will change the voice volume up and down respectively
Control plus home and end will change which voice you use, this will depend on what sapi voices you have installed on your computer
Control plus page up and down will set the voice speed

Royal flush bonus

If you get a royal flush, email me and I'll give you a $100,000 bonus.
Please let me know what table you were on as well.
The easiest thing to do is send me an abuse report with the alt control r key, that way I get an email automatically that let sme know what happened.

The mailing list

The hold em mailing list is an excellent resource for finding other players, scheduling games, and locating games to join.
Click the below link to subscribe, it will open up your email client with a message ready to go, you can leave the subject line blank and just send the email. You will receive a confirmation email, reply to that one without changing the subject line and you are subscribed
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Hope to see you on the tables soon!