How to play

Buy in: the tournament costs 1,000 of your chips. Everyone starts with 1,500 tournament chips, and the top three share the prize pool: 3,000, 1,800 and 1,200.
Your cards: you get two cards face down. Five shared cards come out in the middle: three (the flop), then one (the turn), then one more (the river).
Betting: on your turn, fold (give up the hand), check or call (match the bet), or bet or raise. Use the quick buttons or the slider to pick how much.
Winning a hand: make the best five-card hand from your two cards and the five shared cards, or make everyone else fold.
Blinds: two players post forced bets each hand, and they go up every 8 hands, so the pressure builds.
Hand ranks, best first: straight flush, four of a kind, full house, flush, straight, three of a kind, two pair, pair, high card.

Tips

Play fewer hands, but play them with confidence. Raising wins more pots than calling.
Your position matters. Acting last lets you see what everyone else does first.
Get to know the table. Foxy Roxy raises a lot, Disco Dan calls almost anything, Mellow Mel only plays good cards, Cool Carla loves a bluff and Tight Ted means it when he bets.
The hand helper shows how often your hand wins from here, and what a call needs to pay off. Compare the two.

Take a seat at a six-player sit-and-go against five computer players, each with a style of their own. Everyone starts with the same chips, the blinds go up as you play, and the last player with chips wins. You play with free chips: there's no real money, nothing to buy, and chips have no cash value.

Fair play

Cards are shuffled at random for every hand. The computer players don't see your cards or the cards to come: they judge their hands the same way the hand helper does, by playing the hand out many times with random cards, then act in their own style.