Poker is a game of skill and strategy that requires you to learn a lot about the game. The key to winning at poker is finding optimal frequencies & hand ranges for different situations.
A basic rule of poker is that each player gets a total of seven cards (two face-down, and five on the table). The goal is to make the best possible hand using all of your cards and combining them with the cards on the table.
The player with the lowest hand starts the game, and play proceeds clockwise around the table until everyone has a chance to bet or fold. Each betting interval, or round, begins when a player makes a bet of one or more chips.
Each player to the left must “call” that bet by putting into the pot the same number of chips; or “raise,” if they wish to increase their bet, by putting in more than enough chips to call the previous bet. If a player does not want to raise, they must drop or fold; if they drop, they lose all the chips that put into the pot, and no further betting is allowed until the next deal.
In some games, a player can “check” during a betting interval, which means they pass on their turn to bet and wait for other players to act before they can make any further bets. In other games, a player must “raise” to continue betting, and every player must call their bet.