PokerAddict
PokerAddict is a reference desk for people who want to understand poker rather than follow it. Every page here answers a question that comes up at the table: how a variant is dealt, which hand wins, how often a draw arrives, what a term on the screen means.
Nothing on the site reports results or chases headlines. The pages are written to be read once and returned to later, so the rules, probabilities and vocabulary stay in one place and stay consistent with each other.
Two hole cards, five shared community cards and four betting rounds: the full order of play, the blinds, the showdown rules and the vocabulary that goes with them.
The ten poker hands in order, how often each one appears in a five-card deal, and the rules that settle ties between hands of the same rank.
How to turn a drawing hand into an arithmetic question: counting outs, converting them to a percentage, and comparing that figure with the price the pot is offering.
Why acting last is the single largest structural advantage in poker, what each seat is called, and how opening ranges change from the blinds to the button.
Rules, order of play and hand-making requirements for the poker variants dealt in card rooms and online.
Two hole cards, five shared community cards and four betting rounds: the full order of play, the blinds, the showdown rules and the vocabulary that goes with them.
Four hole cards, five community cards and one rule that changes everything: exactly two hole cards must be used. Rules, pot-limit betting and the hands that actually win.
Omaha with the pot split between the best high hand and the best qualifying low. How the eight-or-better qualifier works, how to read a low, and why scooping decides the game.
The game played before hold'em took over: no community cards, five betting rounds, and information that comes from the cards your opponents show.
Seven-card stud played for low: the worst hand wins, straights and flushes are ignored, and the best possible holding is five-four-three-two-ace.
Hold'em with the deuces through fives removed: 36 cards, a reordered hand ranking, ante-driven betting and far more big hands than the full deck produces.
The decisions that decide most hands: position, starting hands, pot odds, bet sizing and bankroll discipline.
Which two cards are worth playing, why suitedness is worth less than it looks, and how domination explains most of the money lost before the flop.
Why acting last is the single largest structural advantage in poker, what each seat is called, and how opening ranges change from the blinds to the button.
How to turn a drawing hand into an arithmetic question: counting outs, converting them to a percentage, and comparing that figure with the price the pot is offering.
Why bets are measured against the pot rather than the hand, what each size offers an opponent, and how sizing changes between value bets, bluffs and draws.
What a bluff actually needs to work: a believable story, a hand that cannot win at showdown, and a price that makes folding reasonable for the opponent.
The bet that follows a pre-flop raise: when the flop justifies it, which sizes to use, and why betting every flop stopped working years ago.
Hand rankings, probabilities, table positions, betting structures and tournament formats in one place.
The ten poker hands in order, how often each one appears in a five-card deal, and the rules that settle ties between hands of the same rank.
The numbers behind the common decisions: how often hands are dealt, how often draws complete, and what each flop texture appears at.
Every seat at a poker table named and explained: the blinds, under the gun, the lojack, hijack, cutoff and button, at nine-handed, six-handed and heads-up tables.
No-limit, pot-limit, fixed-limit, spread-limit and cap games compared: what each allows, how raises are calculated, and how the structure changes the way a variant plays.
Freezeouts, re-entries, bounties, satellites, shootouts and turbos: what each format changes about entry, elimination and the way a stack should be played.
How poker reached its present form: the betting games that preceded it, the spread of the 52-card deck, the arrival of community cards, and the online era.
How the best-known live tournament circuits are organised, and what the formats mean for the people who enter them.
How the WSOP is structured: a summer schedule of open events across many variants, bracelets as the prize for winning one, and a no-limit hold'em main event.
A touring series of televised no-limit hold'em championships: how stops, main events and final tables are organised, and why broadcast shaped its format.
A festival-style circuit of stops across Europe: a main event, a schedule of side events, high rollers, and online satellites that fill much of the field.
How super high roller events differ from open tournaments: small fields, very large buy-ins, re-entry, short-deck variants and structures built for experienced players.
What the Poker Hall of Fame recognises, the criteria used for induction, and why the standard covers contribution to the game as well as results at the table.
Four sections carry the whole site, and each answers a different kind of question. If you are new to the game, the order below is the order worth reading.
Rules for each variant: what is dealt, how the betting proceeds, and which five cards make the hand.
The recurring decisions — position, starting hands, pot odds, bet sizing — explained with the arithmetic behind them.
Rankings, probabilities, seat names, betting structures and tournament formats, kept as lookup pages.
How the major live circuits are structured and what their formats ask of the people who enter them.
Numbers quoted across the site come from a single source file, so a probability stated on one page matches the same probability stated on another. Where a figure is an approximation, the page says so.