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In the Final Lap

If you are staying in game even after the turn card and river card then you can make the claim for the pot after displaying your hole cards. If only one player does not fold after the display of river card then he/she wins the pot; otherwise there are few ways to determine the winner. As mentioned earlier, the five community cards belong to all players and if any of the players have hole cards that can be used to form the high ranking five-card hand then they increase their chances for winning the pot.

Let us consider an example; if the community cards (three flops, the turn card, and the river card) are J♦ T♦ Q♦ 5♥ 4♠ and your hole cards are K♦ A♦ then you have a Royal Flush, that is, A♦ K♦ Q♦ J♦ T♦. Similarly there are several combinations which will determine your chances for winning the pot.

Know about the Rare Case

There is one in 649,739 chances for you to come across this combination; the community cards being T♠ J♠ Q♠ K♠ A♠ or similar formations. In this case, all the players who stay till the display of river card have a Royal Flush.

In the Fourth Street Round

A fact to be noted in Fourth Street round of betting is if one of the players has a pair formed with the face-up cards then he/she will have the following choices: to check, to make a $2 small bet or a $4 big bet. In this case, the amount chosen by the mentioned player becomes the increment for Fourth Street round. If the mentioned player checks, the bets and raises will be the smaller amount (in $2-$4 game, it is $2).

After Fourth Street Round of Betting

Similar to Fourth Street round, one face-up card is dealt each in Fifth Street and Sixth Street rounds. All the bets and the raises will be for increasingly larger amount in the Fifth and Sixth Street. In the final round, the players are dealt with the seventh card, also known as Seventh Street or river card. In this case, the river card will be dealt face-down such that each player will have three face-down and four face-up cards. After the completion of the final round of betting, all the players should turn over their cards as they try making the best possible five-card hand with the seven cards they hold. The player having the best five-card hand will win the pot.