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Texas Hold'Em, otherwise known as Hold Em, is the number one poker game of choice across Europe and North America, both online and offline. A community card game, Hold Em poker allows each player to use a combo of community cards (numbered five) along with two of their own hole cards to make a complete hand. This stands apart from other variations like draw or stud, where each player will hold their own hand.

The popularity of Hold Em poker surged in the early 21st century after slow but steady gains in the 20th. Though 7 card stud was previously the game of choice, this new behemoth of card playing tossed em out and set itself up as the most regularly played card game in American casinos. The game continues to hold this title today, having spawned the widely televised World Series of Poker, or WSOP, not to mention the World Poker, or WPT, both of which feature no-limit betting.

The game's very format requires players to think strategically, as they have very few cards of their own and must share the rest of em with the other players. Mathematical analysis regularly figures into the calculations of the best of players. Being an incredibly popular game, Hold Em has spawned legions of strategy books, most of which hold valuable information that recommends playing few hands but betting often and raising other bets constantly.

Hold Em Poker is divvied up into a number of hands (otherwise known as deals). At the end of a given hand the central pot is handed out to one or more successful players. Hands conclude either with a showdown, where the remaining players show em their hands and compare which is best, or when every player but one has folded their hand. The remaining poker player then takes the pot.

Though it is possible to tie in poker, it doesn't happen often; in these cases, however, players split the pot evenly.