To make this five card hand, every player can, according to the situation, use two, one, or none of their hole cards and combine them with three, four, or even five of the community cards.
Many factors contribute to its meteoric rise in the early 2000’s: its simplicity (you can learn the game in five minutes), the rise of online poker, the broadcasting of big poker tournaments on television (including the World Poker Tour), and the memorable victory of an amateur player called Chris Moneymaker (you couldn’t make it up!) at the World Series of Poker 2003. The three key points about No Limit Texas Hold’em:
