Tips For Playing Texas Hold’em Bonus

• Published: February 19, 2014
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Texas Hold’em is by far the most popular poker variant. Online casinos offer a game loosely based on it titled Texas Hold’em Bonus. In this game an individual player bets against the house on his hand being better than that of the dealer. This article provides some useful tips for this online casino game.

Texas Hold’em Bonus has two games - the main game and the bonus game. The main game has a house edge of about 2% assuming that the player uses optimum strategy. The main game offers a payout of even money. This is suited for players who have acquired the skill and are willing to grind for long periods. To offset this, the bonus game offers payouts from 3 to 1 to 30 to 1 depending on the rank of the final hand. But the bonus bet has a house edge of 8%. This is an extremely high house edge and therefore the bonus game is not worth playing.

Before starting to play Texas Hold’em Bonus you must understand the rules. The details may differ from software provider to software provider, but the essence is as follows. After you place the ante wager, you will be dealt two hole cards face up and the dealer will be dealt two hole cards face down. You can then either fold and lose your ante bet or place the flop bet, which is two times the ante bet. The three-card flop is dealt in the community area. You can then place the turn bet, equal to the ante bet, or check. The turn card is dealt in the community area. Finally you can place the river bet equal to the ante bet or check. Then everything happens simultaneously. The river card is dealt, the dealer’s hole cards are exposed, the best poker hands for the dealer and the player are automatically made and the hands are compared. If the dealer has the higher ranked hand the player will lose all bets. If the player has the higher ranked hand the flop, turn, and river bets pay even money. If the player has a straight or higher, then the ante bet also pays even money, otherwise it pushes.

One of the crucial decisions is whether to fold or place the flop bet. The optimum Texas Hold’em Bonus strategy for this is as follows. If the lower of your hole cards is a three or higher, then always place the flop bet. If the lower card is a two then place the flop bet only if one of the following conditions is met: the higher card is from the same suit, the higher card is eight or higher or both hole cards are twos.