Use Our Poker Training Room

The best way to become familiar with multi-player Texas holdem poker is to use
our exclusive Texas Holdem Training Room. It's fun, it's easy and there is no
pressure because you're playing poker against our three automated poker trainers,
not other poker players. Take your time to learn the game controls and flow of play in a relaxed environment. It's Free Poker Play, and you can use the Texas Holdem Poker Training Room as often as you like.

Our three Automated Trainers
T. Norgay	G. Mallory	E. Hillary

Limit play means raises are limited to the minimum bet amount, and 1/2 stakes means minimum bets are 1 poker chip in the first two rounds and 2 poker chips in the third and fourth Texas holdem rounds.

Pot Limit poker play means you can raise any amount from the minimum bet up to the amount in the pot, and 2/2 stakes means minimum bets are 2 poker chips in the first two rounds and 2 poker chips in the third and fourth rounds.

No Limit play means you can raise any amount from the minimum bet up to the amount of poker chips you have at table, and 3/3 stakes means minimum bets are 3 poker chips in the first two rounds and 3 poker chips in the third and fourth rounds.

Click OK and the Texas Holdem Poker Training Room will open with a dialog box asking how many poker chips you want to bring to the table. It shows the minimum poker chips needed to sit and the maximum number of poker chips you can bring. Since this is Free Play Poker, just click OK to sit with the maximum. You will be seated at the poker table in the foreground, and in a moment our poker bots Mallory, Hillary and Norgay will join the table and take their seats. When everyone is seated (just the four of you), play will start.

From here, you learn by doing. Action buttons will appear in the centre control panel area when it's your turn to take an action. Don't worry about clicking the wrong thing, after a few hands you'll get the hang of it and start mastering the flow of play.

A few useful online holdem tips:

• Hold your mouse over the avatars for a few seconds to see player profiles popup.
• Mouse-over your Pocket Cards to see your best hand rank at the moment (it may change as more community cards are dealt to the board).
• Mouse-over most control buttons to see tips pop-up to explain their function. Action buttons typically don't have pop-up tips because they would be distracting during play.
• The Chat window carries Dealer chat which describes what happens at each step. Reading it as you play can be instructive.
• To see what happened at the end of the last poker hand, look in the upper right at the Previous Hand window. Click on the window to bring up the poker Statistics table showing information on your play during this table session. Click on the Statistics table to bring up the previous poker Hand summary again.
• The Hand Ranks button will pop-up a list of all the possible Hand values ranked from highest to lowest.