Poker rules

Spartan Poker offers the most popular and exciting variants of online poker games. Here, you can play No-Limit versions of Texas Hold'em and Pot-Limit Omaha but the poker rules for these games remain quite similar. Both these games begin with forced bets where all the players compete to win the pot.

Poker Rules: Learn Basic Rules of Poker at Spartan Poker
 Spartan Poker has its own customized and user-friendly poker software with some of the best features available in the entire poker industry. Some of the poker rules which player should know while playing at Spartan Poker are as follows:-

Rake Rules While playing online poker at Spartan Poker, a fee is collected from each hand according to the rake chart. This nominal fee is known as Rake. It is collected from each player in accordance with international poker sites and is collected as per industry norms.

Chips
 Online poker is almost always played with poker chips. For a game with seven players or more, there should be a supply of at least 200 chips. Usually, the white chip is the lowest valued chip, worth whatever the minimum ante or bet is; a red chip is worth five whites; and a blue-chip is worth 10, 20, or 25 whites or two, four, or five reds. At the beginning of the game, each player buys-in by purchasing a certain number of chips, the amount of buy-in usually remains the same for each player.

Table Stakes The limit for each player is the number of chips in front of the player. If a player has only 10 chips, he/she may bet no more than 10 and they can call any other player's bet to that extent only. In table stakes, no player can withdraw chips from the table or return the chips, until they leave the game. A player can add to their stack but, only between the deal just completed and the beginning of the next deal.

Texas Hold'em Poker Rules Texas Holdem is unarguably the most popular poker game in the world. Spartan Poker offers No-Limit Texas Hold'em poker to its poker players keeping in mind its popularity. In this section, you can learn the basic poker rules of No-Limit Texas Hold'em, whereas, for a complete understanding of how to play poker, you can visit our "how to play poker" section.

Basic poker rules of No-Limit Texas Holdem
  In No-Limit Texas hold'em, each player is dealt two hole cards that are for their eyes only. Five community cards are dealt face up in three stages that collectively form the 'board'. All players have to use these five shared community cards along with their two pocket or hole cards to make their best possible five-card hand. In No-Limit Texas Holdem, a player may use any combination of the seven cards at their disposal to make the best possible five-card hand, using zero, one, or two of their private pocket cards.

Poker rules concerned with minimum bet: In a No-limit Texas Holdem, the minimum bet is the same size as the size of the big blind but, there is no restriction on the amount the players wish to bet.

Poker rules concerned with minimum raise: The raise amount must be at least as much as the previous bet or raise in the same betting round.

Poker rules concerned with maximum raise: By the very nature of No-Limit Texas Holdem, there is no limit on the maximum raise. This implies that the maximum raise can go up to the size of your stack.