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Poker is a skill-based game that people play with a normal set (or deck) of 52 cards. Poker is any of a number of card games in which players wager over which hand is best according to that specific game's rules in ways similar to Poker rankings. The winner is determined by probability and preponderance and not just luck. Even the International Mind Sports Association (IMSA) recognizes Poker as a 'mind sport'.

Betting and gambling are listed under Entry 34 of the State list ever since the Indian Constitution came into effect in 26 January, 1950. As such, our Constitution permits states to enact laws to regulate betting and gambling in their respective jurisdictions.

Various states in India exercise this power independently and have enacted anti-gambling legislations within their jurisdictions conforming to the principle act of Public Gambling Act of 1867 which includes the exception of “games of skill”. Therefore, state laws prevail over this act.

In this regard, the legislative acts of a certain number of states prohibits all games involving money as stakes and do not make an exception for games of skill. These states include Assam, Odisha, Nagaland, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana. Currently, residents of these states are not allowed to play poker for real money on online poker platforms. That said, players can still play free poker games and tournaments for leisure.

Players from all other states in India can follow their passion and continue playing online poker for stakes on credible poker platforms on PokerBaazi. This has led to the rise of many prominent poker players in India who have made a name for themselves in this spectacular game of skill.

Our services and products are not available to anybody who is under the age of 18 years on the day of them applying for membership through the registration process on the site. Also, it is strictly prohibited for any user under the age of 18 to play games on our website.

We reserve the right to request proof of age at any stage to verify that minors are not using the service. We may exclude a person from play if proof of age is not provided or if we suspect that a person using the service is underage.

The services and products are not intended for users connecting to the site from jurisdictions that say it is illegal to do so. Any underage player who has provided dishonest or inaccurate information regarding their true age or identity may have all their winnings forfeited and could face criminal prosecution.

1. No-Limit Texas Hold'em(NLHE): Texas hold 'em is one of the most popular variants of poker. Two cards, known as hole cards, are dealt face down to each player, and then five community cards are dealt face up in three stages.

2. Pot Limit Omaha(PLO): Omaha Hold'em is a community card poker game similar to Texas hold'em, where each player is dealt four/five cards and must make his or her best hand using exactly two of them, plus exactly three of the five community cards.

3. Super Hold’em: Super Hold’em is an exciting poker format wherein each player is dealt with 3 hole cards. Players have to use at least 1 hole card along with the community cards to make the best 5-card combination.

4. Pineapple (Open Face Chinese) Poker: Pineapple OFC poker is played between either 2 or 3 players. It can be played in a sit and go [sit'n'go] format or cash. Unlike poker, this game is played without chips. A point system is followed to determine the score, with each point holding a certain value.

Super Hold’em is an exciting poker format wherein each player is dealt with 3 hole cards. Players have to use at least 1 hole card along with the community cards to make the best 5-card combination.

Whereas in Texas Hold’em, each player is dealt with 2 hole cards and the players can use either none or up to 2 hole cards to make the best 5-card combination.

1. In Omaha, 4 or 5 cards are dealt (depending on the variant) to each player whereas in Texas Hold'em only 2 cards are dealt.

2. The player needs to compulsorily use 2 hole cards to make the best possible hand in Pot Limit Omaha, whereas in Texas Hold'em, a player can use either 1 hole card or both the cards to make the best possible hand.

3. Omaha is a pot-limit game where the maximum a player can raise or bet depends on the size of the pot, whereas Texas Hold'em has no limits on betting.

Cash Games: Your chip stack in a cash game represents its real money value. Blinds and antes are set for the table and they don't increase like a tournament. You can enter or leave a cash game at any time you want.

Formats of Cash Games:
1. Cash table: Cash Game Tables can be played on our website or application using your deposit amount (Unused Balance).
2. Play Money table: Practice Money Tables can be played on our website or software using our virtual tokens or Play Money. It does not have any monetary value and is only useful to practice poker. New players are advised to play this game.

In this format, 5 hole cards are dealt instead of 4 and a player must use 2 hole cards and 3 community cards to complete his/her best 5 card combination. The game also follows a 'pot limit' structure, just like the regular variant.

In some cash games, if a player is all in before the river has been dealt, the players involved can agree to 'run it twice' i.e. the remaining streets get dealt twice, with half the pot going to the player with the best hand in each instance.

Tournament: A poker tournament is a game with a fixed format. Everything is predetermined – the blinds, buy-in, stack sizes, antes, structure, and time limit.

Formats of Tournaments:
1. Guaranteed Tournaments: In poker, a "guaranteed prize pool" is when tournament organizers guarantee that a tournament will have a minimum prize pool of a certain amount. Guaranteeing a prize pool is done to increase attendance as players will know that they will be playing for a minimum amount of money.
2. Free Entry Tournaments: A Free Entry tournament is a poker tournament with no entry fee. Some freerolls (eg: Depositors FreeRoll) require payment at some point to gain entry to the tournament.

There are three variants of tournaments:

KnockOut tournaments: Knockout tournaments (also known as Bounty tournaments) pay a cash prize for every player you knock out of the tournament. This cash prize is the 'bounty' on the player and is separate from the tournament's prize pool. This means that players with many knockouts can still take home some money, even if they do not make it to a winning position in the tournament. The last player of the tournament - i.e. the winner - will have his/her bounty credited to him/her as winnings.

Progressive Knockout: The bigger the catch, the better the prize! While regular Knockout pays a player the same fixed amount for each knockout, Progressive Knockout places a different price on each player's head. In this variant, you win 50% of the bounty each time you knock out a player and the rest gets added to your bounty. As the tournament progresses, players with many knockouts will subsequently have higher bounties, and will be worth more to knock out! The last player of the tournament - i.e. the winner - will have his/her bounty credited to him/her as winnings.

Win the Button: In a regular poker game, the dealer button is moved around the table in a clockwise manner. However, in this format, the button will be passed to whoever wins the round. Effectively, this gives them the advantage of acting last in the game. Win the Button is an action-packed variant that rewards players that actively go for the win.

Hand Rankings, from strongest to weakest, are:

Hole Cards:Two random face-down cards dealt to each player on a table.

Community Cards:Five cards put face-up on the game table. Players use them to make their respective card combinations. A player strives to make a winning card combination using his two Hole Cards and a fixed number of Community Cards (depending on the poker variant he is playing) to make the best five-card combination. In Texas Hold'em, every player strives to make the best five-card poker hand using his two Hole Cards and Five Community Cards. The player with the best card combination is the winner. In Pot Limit Omaha, a player should also make the best five-card combination. Every player initially gets four Hole Cards, out of which he discards two. He should then try to make a winning five-card poker hand with two Hole Cards and Five Community Cards.

Two cards (hole cards) are dealt to each player in a clockwise manner after the ""Small Blind"" and ""Big Blind"" are deducted. Five community cards are dealt face up in three stages - ""Flop"", ""Turn"" and ""River"". On a cash tables maximum 6 players can sit at once whereas maximum 8 players can sit on a tournament table at once.

For better understanding, please watch our video on How To Play Texas Hold'em.

Pot Limit Omaha is structured exactly the same as Texas Hold'em but players are dealt four (PLO4), five (PLO5) or six (PLO6) hole cards instead of two.

In this variant, you have to use 2 of your hole cards and 3 of the community cards to make the best 5-card combination.

"Pot Limit Omaha differs when it comes to figuring out the winner at the end of the play as compared to Texas Hold'em. However, the hand rankings remain the same between the two. The players have to use two hole cards and three community cards to make their best hand possible.

At the end of each hand, the player with the best 5-card combination at showdown is declared the winner."

To make the best hand in Super Hold’em, you have to use at least 1 out of the 3 hole cards along with the community cards to make the best 5-card combination.

Example 1
Board: J♥ K♥ 7♦ Q♦ 4♣
Player 1: Q♥ Q♠ K♠ (Full house)
Player 2: A♥ 3♥ 4♥ (Flush)
In this case, player 1 will win

Example 2
Board: 6♥ 7♥ J♦ Q♦ 4♣
Player 1: J♠ J♥♥ (3 of a kind)
Player 2: 9♥ A♥ K♥ (Flush)
In this case, player 2 will win

Example 3
Board: 6♥ 9♥ 2♦ 3♦ A♣
Player 1: 8♠ 10♣ 7♥ (Straight)
Player 2: 4♣ 5♥ 3♠ (Straight)
In this case, player 1 will win

Example 4
Board: K♠ K♣ A♠ J♣ 3♠
Player 1: K♦ Q♣ J♠ (Full house)
Player 2: 3♣ 3♦ 3♥ (4 of a kind)
In this case, player 2 will win

Yes, in Super Hold’em 2 players can have a Royal Flush.

Let’s look at an example-
Player A can have A♥, Q♥>, K♥ as their hole cards and Player B can have A♦, Q♦, K♦ as their hole cards. Now, the community cards turn out to be J♥, 10♥, J♦, 10♦, 7♥.

In this case, the pot will be divided between them at the time of showdown.

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Straddle is a voluntary blind bet placed by the player on UTG position (person sitting on the immediate left of big blind). The bet is twice the big blind.

Straddle will work in the following conditions:

1. It will only be enabled if the straddle checkbox is checked before the hand. (When you're playing on table, click on (☰) icon and select "Straddle")
2. The straddle only impacts in the pre-flop round. In the pre-flop round, the minimum call amount will be the straddle amount.
3. After the flop opens, the minimum bet amount will be the big blind amount.
4. Straddle cannot be done on the dealer button. So the straddle can only be posted if 4 or more players are involved in a hand.

"When playing RIT, 2 extra cards open on the table. Here's how RIT works-

1. Running it twice is a method of determining the winner of a poker hand once all betting on the hand is complete but before the final card(s) (either community cards or other cards) have been dealt.
2. In practice, this is only done when the hand has gotten down to heads up and one player is all-in and the other player has matched their bet.
3. Running it twice can be done either pre-flop, after the flop, or after the turn, but only after one of the two players is fully all-inBoth players must agree to run it twice.
4. Run it twice directs the dealer to deal with two sets of the final cards to be dealt, thus creating two different outcomes.
5. The pot is split into two halves, the first half of the pot is awarded to the winner of the hand using the first set of community cards that were dealt and the second half of the pot is awarded to the winner of the hand using the second set of community cards that were dealt."

"Playing poker online is a close function of your internet quality and speed. We suggest that you use a stable internet connection for the best gaming experience on PokerBaazi. Please make sure to check the below mentioned points:

• a) We recommend a stable internet connection of at least 256 Kbps and above, with little or no packet loss and low latency to our servers.
• b) We recommend you to switch your internet connection. For e.g. if you are using mobile data then switch to wifi.
• c) If you are using wifi, we request you to restart your router.
• d) If you are using mobile data, we request you to turn on the airplane mode and turn it off.

Note: In case you are still experiencing this issue, please send us a video of the same to playerrelations@pokerbaazi.com. We will immediately get it checked with the technical team."

This can be happen due to the below mentioned reasons:

1. If you are trying to play from territories outside India.
2. If you are trying to play within the restricted state boundaries (Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Odisha, Telangana, and Nagaland)
3. If you are trying to play using a VPN (Virtual Private Network)
4. If you are playing using a HUD (Heads Up Display) software.
5. If you are trying to open more than 3 tables on the Mobile application or the Mobile/desktop browser.
6. If there is a popup blocker.
7. If there is Internet Fluctuation while entering any table.
8. We recommend you to clear cache and cookies from browser and/or cache from the application and then re-login

Note: Incase all the above points are checked and you are still experiencing issues, please send us a screenshot/video of the same.. We will immediately get it checked with the technical team.

Chrome:

• By default, Google Chrome blocks pop-ups from automatically showing up on your screen. When a pop-up is blocked, the address bar will be marked 'Pop-up blocked.'
• Click on this icon in your address bar to allow popups from PokerBaazi and reopen the game lobby. If it still does not work, you may follow the below steps. At the top right of Chrome browser, click More and then click Settings. At the lowermost placed option named Advanced, click 'Privacy and Security.' Now click Content settings to go to Popups. Click the same and turn the setting to Allowed.

B. Firefox:

• When blocking a pop-up, Firefox displays an information bar. If it hasn't been previously dismissed, you would see it just below your Bookmark's bar. The browser will also notify you with an icon in the address bar.
  

• When you click either the Preferences button in the info bar or the icon in the address bar, a menu is displayed with the following choices:

  1. Allow/Block pop-ups for this site
  2. Edit Pop-up Blocker Preferences
  3. Don't show this message when pop-ups are blocked
  4. (show the blocked pop-up)

• To access the pop-up blocker settings:

  1. Click the menu button (it would be marked as) and choose Preferences.
  2. Select the Privacy and Security panel.
  3. In the Permissions section, uncheck the box next to Block pop-up windows to disable the pop-up blocker altogether.

C. Internet Explorer 11:

• Open Internet Explorer, select the Tools button and then select Internet options.
• On the Privacy tab, go to Pop-up Blocker and clear the Turn on Pop-up Blocker check box.
• Click OK to confirm, and that's it. You can now start playing poker online!

D. Internet Explorer 10:

• Click the Internet Explorer icon on the desktop to open the program.
• Click the Tools button in the toolbar at the top of the browser window.
• Select Internet Options from the Tools menu.
• Click the Privacy tab in the Internet Options pop-up window.
• Clear the check mark next to 'Turn on Pop-Up Blocker' so that it is deselected.

• Click OK.

E. Safari:

• Click Safari in the browser menu. You will find it at the top of the screen.
• Choose Preferences when the drop-down menu appears. Alternatively, you can also use the Command and Comma key together.
• Click the Security tab to open the Security Preferences window.
• In the Web content section, clear the check box next to the option called Block pop-up windows.

Please uninstall the old app and then download the new app from Go Mobile and install it.

You can download the new app from our website Go Mobile. Please uninstall the old app before installing the new one.

Please uninstall the old app and then download the new app from Go Mobile and install it.

1. The downloaded APK should be fully downloaded before installing.
2. The Android version should be 7 or above.
3. If there is an Internet Fluctuation while login to your account.

Note: In case all the above points are checked and ensured and if the still issue persists, we request you to share the screenshot/video at playerrelations@pokerbaazi.com or chat with us. We will immediately get it checked with our technical team.

Please check the following points:

1. Your Login credential should be correct.
2. Your phone number should be correct and validated.
3. App should be updated.
4. Android version should be 7 and above.
5. We also recommend you to clear cache and cookies from the browser and cache from the application and then re-login.
6. If there is an Internet Fluctuation while login to your account.

Note: In case all the above points are checked and ensured and if the still issue persists, we request you to share the screenshot/video at playerrelations@pokerbaazi.com or chat with us. We will immediately get it checked with our technical team.

Yes, PokerBaazi does have a bug bounty program. To know more, please mail us on engineering@pokerbaazi.com