To start playing Hold'em and Omaha, you have to post an amount equal to the big blind, or wait until the big blind comes around to you. In Stud games, no matter when or where you sit down at the table, all you have to do is ante up if you want to be dealt into a hand.
As you play, you will find it convenient to use the automatic checkbox options in the lower left corner:
- Post your future blind bets automatically using Auto post blinds
- Sit out the next hand
- Muck all your losing cards automatically using Auto muck losing hands
Yellow buttons - Call, Fold, Check, Bet, Raise etc. - will appear when it is your turn to act. In No Limit and Pot Limit games, you can use the slider to control how much you want to bet, or just type in the amount in the slider text box.
Before it is your turn to act, you can use the green auto-action radio buttons to determine what you want to do when your turn comes around. This is especially useful when playing
multi-hand poker.
Sometimes a hand passes so fast that you feel you didn't see everything there was to see (e.g. somebody made a crazy call and you want to go back and see so you can write valuable player notes on that player's betting habits). You can view an instant replay of the entire previous hand from the
View menu at the top of the screen.
If you have several poker games open at the same time, you can decide how to view them by selecting the
Tile or
Cascade view options.
Enjoy the tables and good luck!
