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Texas Hold'em 101
How to play
1. Players receive two cards face down, followed by a round of betting.
2. "The Flop" comes next, where three community cards are put in the middle, followed by a round of betting.
3. Next comes "The Turn," another community card in the middle, followed by a round of betting.
4. Finally, "The River," the final community card, is put in the middle, followed by the final round of betting.
5. The best five-card poker hand, using the two hole cards and five community cards, wins.
Hold'em By the Numbers
1 -- With television poker fans no longer wanting to wait for taped broadcasts, Fox Sports Net will air a live pro poker tournament in July. It will mark the first time this has happened.
4 -- The number of online qualifiers at the final table of last summer's World Series of Poker final.
18 -- The number of years Card Player Magazine was a free publication that could only be found in poker rooms. Now the cost and circulation is expected to double.
45 -- The number of seconds between commercials for "Tilt" on ESPN.
100,000 -- The number of people who play online Hold'em during the peak hours of 7-10 p.m. every day.
1.3 million -- The number of people, on average, who watch the World Poker Tour segments on the Travel Channel.
30 million -- The number of dollars won by players competing in the WPT last year.
50 million -- The number of Americans who play poker, with Hold'em the most popular.
100 million -- The number of poker players found worldwide.
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