In every casino game, except poker, luck is the leading factor on whether you win or lose. Playing Texas Hold 'em, a form of poker, is one way to skew the odds in your favor. Hold 'em is a game that takes a minute to learn and a lifetime to master. Taking part in a game of Hold 'em and winning takes much more skill then luck. If you sit down at a table and can't spot the sucker in the first few minutes then you are the sucker. If you pay attention to the following advice, you too can become adept at playing and winning at Texas Hold 'em, and make the other players the suckers.
             To begin with you need to find a group of players to play with, this group can be anywhere from one to ten players including yourself. A normal game of Hold 'em is usually played with 10 players. Texas Hold 'em uses a disc called a dealer button to indicate where the cards are to be dealt. After each round the button rotates to the left. All the players should sit around a circular table, this placement will signify in what order players will act during the game. Hold 'em is played with a deck of 52 cards excluding the jokers, Aces can be either high or low cards. Before the dealer starts dealing the cards, two forced bets called blinds are put out by the two players to the left of the dealer. The first blind placed is half the amount of the next blind. These are meant to create action on every hand. Next, two cards are dealt to each player; these will be his hole or pocket cards, that no one else will see. After the pocket cards are dealt each player has a chance to check the two cards and see if they want to play the hand. The action starts on the person three seats to the left of the dealer, right after the person who places the big blind. This person and each subsequent person after them checks their cards to see if they want to stay in the hand. A player can either call the amount of the big bli...