Hold'em

Fold, check, call, raise

The choices on one betting round. No amounts are listed.

Page

Hold'em repeats these choices on the preflop, flop, turn and river. Who speaks first is on the betting-rounds page.

  1. 01

    Fold

    You leave the hand. Chips already in the pot stay there. You put in no more.

  2. 02

    Check

    When nobody has bet, you pass without putting in chips. You cannot check once a bet is in front of you.

  3. 03

    Call

    You match the bet in front of you. Whether that price breaks even is what the pot-odds calculator answers. It does not calculate your chance of winning.

  4. 04

    Bet and raise

    A bet is the first chips into a round. A raise is more than a bet already there. No minimum and no size chart are published. The only game labeled pot-limit is PLO5.

Questions

No. A check is when there is no bet. A call matches a bet that is already there.