OK Solberg: 00:00

I want again. Welcome into the four zero five coffee break. Guys, the weekend's coming. It's Friday. Get your cup of coffee, glass iced tea, bottle of water.

OK Solberg: 00:07

Let's see what's happening. Spring weight. Five ninety four. Five hundred and fifty pounds steer calf. Record high is three eighty six.

OK Solberg: 00:17

Butcher hog in Omaha, Seventy Nine Cents a pound and a hundred pound I'm in billing at $2.20 a pound. But, guys, there's more, much more. Today, let's talk about poker. But first, a bible verse. Proverbs thirteen eleven states, wealth gained hastily will dwindle, but whoever gathers little by little will increase.

OK Solberg: 00:43

Okay. Wealth gained hastily could refer to gambling, and yet today we're gonna talk about poker. Now, you don't have to play it necessarily, but it's interesting to know what makes it work. Now I have a friend who's interested, and I do not play for money, but there's an app online where you can play Hold'em for free and play against other live people. For me, poker is about outthinking your opponent.

OK Solberg: 01:15

Kinda like working cattle, guys. I just have to outthink them. So since my friend was interested, I wrote up this little summary for him. I read it aloud to him. He liked it so much that he suggested I put it on the four zero five.

OK Solberg: 01:30

Now you may not be interested, but bear with me, would you? Some people will be, and it is really interesting. Anyone desiring to play poker must understand which hands are better than others. They also have to understand that any poker hand is made up of five cards. In some poker games such as hold them, there are seven cards dealt but only the five best cards are used.

OK Solberg: 02:00

The other two are of no consequence. To get the basics, you have to remember this, there are nine differing degrees of hands from the lowest to the highest, and I'll name them. At the bottom, no pair, just a high card. The next, a pair, two pair, then three of a kind, a straight, a flush, full house, four of a kind, and finally straight flush, and the highest being a royal flush, which is nothing more than a straight flush at the highest stand. You're probably familiar with enanti.

OK Solberg: 02:45

Most common poker games require each player to place an enanti into the pot before the cards are dealt. Now today, we're focusing on Texas hold them, and in hold them, only two people only two people at the table ante up. These antes are called blinds. So one person has a small blind and the other person has the big blind. The small blind is half the amount of the big blind.

OK Solberg: 03:17

In hold them, there are five community cards face up on the table. Each player uses them with their two whole cards to make the best five card hand. At the hold them table, every game has a dealer which is designated by a button. You don't actually deal the cards, but you have the dealer button. This is important to know because a dealer is the last person to bet.

OK Solberg: 03:45

This button rotates around the table left to right after each hand. To the left of the dealer is the small blind, and next left is the big blind. These blinds are withheld before the two whole cards are dealt. So remember this, because of the blinds, big blind, small blind, your stack of chips will de decrease throughout the night even if you fold every hand. Yet, also remember that not every player has to place an ante in the pot so a cautious player can retain his stack longer at a hold them table than where everyone has to Annie every hand.

OK Solberg: 04:24

In hold them, each player is dealt two whole cards. Only they can see the value of these two cards. All the rest of the cards are community cards, and they're placed face up in the center of the table. Once you get your head around this scenario, you will realize that a good calculating person can deduce what is the best possible hand his opponent could have by looking at the community cards since they only have two other cards. So here's some helpful hints in reading community cards.

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Know that for any player to have a straight, there has to be three community cards that align with a straight. So for example, two, three, five, if a two three five are on the board, you can calculate it that it would be possible for your opponent to have a four or a six or a four and an ace. With this said, I'll always remember there's a high side and a low side to a straight. Don't get overly cocky just because you have the low side to the straight because your opponent could have the high side. When it comes to a flush, there has to be three cards of the same suit on the board, the community cards, for anyone to have a flush.

OK Solberg: 05:45

And also remember that there is a high side and a low side of a flush. For any person to have a full house, there has to be a pair on the board. Be very cautious if there are four cards on the board that will make a straight and be cautious likewise if there are four same card suits on the board because in each of these two cases, it means your opponent only has to have one card to fill the straight or to fill the flush. Hold them is a much loved game because a studied person can calculate what is the best possible hand that their opponent could have. Once all the community cards are out, any person, and I can teach you how to do it, you can know that this person could have this hand but not that hand.

OK Solberg: 06:34

Hold them is less of a gamble than some other poker games because you're not shooting in the dark as much. There it end. It doesn't tell you everything, but everything it tells is absolutely true. So until next time, have a good weekend as you go out there. Remember now, don't be bitter.