No, One card and 4 from the board can be used to make a hand. In some cases, say two people showdown and have a pair of jacks each. The off card will be used as a kicker, the person with the higher kicker wins the main pot.
Yes, in Texas Hold'em, you must use both of your hole cards along with the community cards to form your final hand.
The hands in Texas Holdem are very similar to the hands of regular poker. In both the best hand you can get is a Straight Flush where the cards are in sequence and of the same suit.
Actually, 2 7 unsuited is called the worst starting hand, or hole cards in Texas Holdem poker because it is the two lowest ranking cards that cannot make a straight or flush using both cards.
There a many good hands in Texas Holdem, such as, Three of a kind (when you get dealt your two cards, they are the same numbers on both, and there is a card on the table with the same number as the cards in your hand), the Straight (five consecutive cards- Aces may be used before a two or after a King), the Flush (five cards of the same suit), Full House (three of a kind and one pair), Four of a Kind (four cards with the same number), and the best hand is the Straight Flush (five consecutive cards of the same suit). The lowest hands in Texas Holdem are, High Card (Ace, king, Queen, Jack, Ten, Nine, Eight etc.), One Pair (two cards with the same number), Two Pairs (for example, you have pairs of Aces and Tens).
No, in Texas Hold'em, an ace can count as both a high card (above a king) and a low card (below a 2) in a straight, but it does not count as a 1.
In Texas Hold'em, you can use both, one, or none of your hole cards to make a hand.
No, in Texas Hold'em, you can use both, one, or none of the cards in your hand to form your final hand.
Yes, they do.
The kicker is used as a tie breaker when two players hold the same hand. e.g. You and I both have a pair of Kings, but you have an Ace with your King and I only have a Jack. Then you win the pot because you have the higher kicker. In Texas Hold Em You count down 5 kickers (because a poker hand only consists of 5 cards) so if we have the same kickers off the board it is a split pot.
No one can cheat at Zynga's Texas Hold'em poker. Zynga uses their own unique logarithm to deal out the cards. Even if someone knows zynga's logarithm, they will not be able to predict what is dealt.
In a poker game like Texas Holdem, a side pot is created when one or more players go all-in with different amounts of chips. The significance of a side pot is that it allows players who have more chips to continue betting and potentially win more money, even if the all-in players cannot participate in further betting. This adds complexity and strategy to the game, as players must consider their chip stack and potential winnings from both the main pot and any side pots.
You determine the winner by seeing who has a higher second card. If you have an AK, and your opponent has an A7, and both of you have an Ace pair, then you would win the hand because your K is higher than the 7. If you both have the same second card, then the pot is split.