Poker is not a free game that you can just play anytime since you need seed money to be able to get a seat at the table and play. What free poker connotates is that you can get to play with the best and the worst of them anytime since this is usually played over on the internet. It becomes "free" because several websites offer poker games to internet poker game players for free. Just sign up and get to play free poker already.

Therefore, free poker is the online poker for most players. How does this differ from the other pokers being played everywhere else? One factor is that in free poker, you don't know who your opponents are. You won't be able to read their eyes or anticipate their body movements since this is being played virtually. Of course, if you cannot see them, they can not also see you. Thus, there is more freedom to react.  Another feature of free poker in the internet setting is that rules are more strict since nobody is seeing anybody, the objectivity of the dealer or dealer/player is more or less not compromised that much.

Same betting rules for free poker and the other variants of the poker game exists. Just make sure that before you go play free poker, you are very aware of these rules. To give you tips on how to play free poker, never forget that five of a kind is the highest hand you can have, when the use of wildcard is part of the rules of the free poker (such as five aces, fifth card is a wildcard). If not, then the royal flush (where you have cards of the same suit that go from ten, jack, queen, king, and ace) is the hand to beat. Next best thing is the straight flush where you hold five cards of consecutive value (such as two, three, four, five, six of spades) that only have one suit.

The following are the various hands you can make in free poker according to their ranking. These are the four of a kind, full house, a flush, straight, three of a kind, two pair, one pair, and high card. Four of a kind is when you have the one value card of the different suits, such as the ace of hearts, diamonds, spades, and clubs. A full house is when you are holding three suit cards of one value and a pair, such as the king of spades, hearts and diamonds plus six of hearts and diamonds. Flushes is the card hand when you have five cards of the same suit at no particular order, such as two of hearts, six of hearts, ace of hearts, nine of hearts and king of hearts. You can also have a regular straight when you have different suits that form a consecutive ranking of the cards (such as seven of clubs, eight of spades, nine of diamonds, ten of diamonds, and jack of hearts).

Three of a kind is when you don't have any pair to make it a full house, while two pair is having two sets of pair in a hand, such as holding jack of diamonds and clubs, and another pair of two of hearts and two of diamonds. One pair is when you only have one set of a pair. And lastly, the lowest hand is when you only have high cards such as the ace, the king, the queen. This hand does not form any of the better hands thus its lowly level. As in any variant of poker, the thing to remember in free poker is that the degree of difficulty in forming the hands determine the value it has in the chain.

Are we ready to play free poker now? You bet!