Top 10 Online Poker Sites UK 2024

Are you able to detect your opponent's cues? Can you have what it takes to become a poker shark in terms of patience, discretion, and mental toughness?

Since online poker was just legalized a few years ago, the top poker sites can entice you to play with a variety of tempting incentives. And you'll be able to jumpstart your bankroll. Playing online poker in the Garden State outperforms playing poker in a brick-and-mortar casino in a number of ways. 

The aim of the game is to make the best poker hand possible. Alternatively, deceive you into believing that's what you've received. There are five cards in a poker hand. Hands with a higher rank win over those with a lower rank. Higher-value cards outnumber lower-value cards when you have the same kind of hand. The highest card is an ace.

You'll have to work out which hands beat which. Below are the major hand-ranking categories:

1. Royal Flush
2. Straight Flush
3. Four of a Kind (Quads)
4. Full House (Boat)
5. Flush
6. Straight
7. Three of a Kind (Triplets/Trips)
8. Two Pair
9. One Pair
10. High Card (Nothing/No pair)

You'll still need to familiarize yourself with table positions and how they shape a player's approach.

The order in which the ‘blinds' are placed up and players bet is decided by the dealer's position. A broad chip (‘button') suggests who will be the dealer next. After each side, this rotates.

Two cards are dealt with each of the players. The two players sitting clockwise from the dealer button must then place two forced bets: a ‘small blind' and a ‘big blind.' Holding chips on the table at all times. To advance to the next round, you must at least fit the major blind.

The betting rounds then begin, and you place your bets based on your level of confidence in your side. Alternatively, how confident you are in your ability to bluff enemies.

There are five choices available to you:

• Call – equal or lift another player's wager.
• Raise – in that round, increase the size of your current bet.
• Fold – you give up your cards and any bets you've made in the current round when you fold your side.
• Check – without placing a bet, move the action to the next player (you can only do this if no one has bet so far in the round)
• When you don't have enough chips to dial, all in – play all of your remaining chips (you can only win the number of chips in the pot up to this point)

After round one, three ‘community cards' (the ‘flop') are dealt face up. After round two, there is a fourth (the ‘turn'). After round three, there's a final card (the'river').

If two or more teams haven't folded after the fourth and final round of bets, the game goes on to the showdown. All of the remaining players must display their cards. And the pot is won by the player with the better card.