— Welcome to Texas Hold’em Poker on Scratch — Try your luck (and skill) against three AI opponents! If you win enough, your username and score will be shown on the High Scores page. Works on mobile devices! HOW TO PLAY ____________ In Texas Hold'em Poker, your goal is to take your opponents' money by either having the best cards, or getting all opponents to fold their cards. There are four players to start a game: You and three AIs. Each player starts with two cards and is required to pay a small mandatory amount called a "blind" to stay in the hand. Players begin with $100 and the big blind starts at $2, increasing as the game goes on. There are three basic actions in Texas Hold'em: Folding, Calling, and Betting. Folding means you lay your cards down and are not eligible for the money in the current pot(s). Calling means staying in the hand by matching the blind or your opponents' bets. If there is no bet to be matched, one may "Check" to pass the action on to the next player. Finally, Betting means placing money into the community pot to assert your cards are the best. Betting on top of another bet is a "Raise." After the initial round of betting, five community cards are laid out in the center of the table. This begins with three cards called the Flop, followed by another card called the Turn, and a final one called the River. The best five out of seven total cards (yours plus the community cards) are used to determine the overall strength of your hand. The hand rankings are shown next. Feel free to ask questions about the game, and please report any bugs/glitches you see. I went through several trials to fix all the glitches I caught, although it's possible some still exist.
