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How to play Yahoo Poker?

I want to play poker on yahoo, but i don't understand it online. like can some1 help me on how to play yahoo poker. And it would be appreciated if u could define call, and fold, and bet, raise, etc to me. i understand fold and stuff, but i don't know. Is it different online. As you can probably tell, I am new to poker :P

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1. Sure, most sites will have 3 main buttons, the first one is fold, this means that you do not want to play the hand and you are folding. The next one is the call button, this means that you are calling the blind, so if the blind is at 200 dollars for the big blind and you press call 200, it means you are just calling the blind. And when you are in the blind you have a check button. This means you are checking your blind and you do not wish to raise and you would like to see the flop without putting anymore money in. You also will have a betting bar, when you want to raise all you do is slide the bar forward until the right amount is displayed. You also can type in the amount you want to bet as well, and you have preset buttons that you can set to fold even before the action comes to you.
2. ok real simple here are the definitions FOLD= self explanatory .. you look at your cards and dont like em or dont want to play them any further so you fold them and your out of that round BET= is you putting up an amount of money because you like the cards you have in your hand.. say you have AA in your hand the highest cards to be dealt .. so if you play a beginners game you probably wanna BET a nice amount on those ( i say beginners because i wont get into the tricks on how to play high cards it would be too much info).. so you would probably bet say $50 or $100 CALL means you will MATCH or EQUAL the bet someone just made .. for example someone just bet $20 bucks you like your cards enough to say yea ill match that with my $20.. so if someone bets $100 you CALL (match/equal) it with $100.. if they bet $200 you CALL or match it with $200 CHECK means you wanna CHECK what the next person is gonna do so you DO NOTHING.. you dont bet any money .. you dont fold your cards and you dont raise.. just let that phrase go through your head when you play say " ok i wanna CHECK and see what theyre gonna do".. you usually do this because your cards arent that great and your checking to see if you should fold... ( say you have average to bad cards and after you CHECK the next person BETS $500.. thats when you probably FOLD) or you do it if your trying to trick your opponent into THINKING youve got nothing when you really do ( thats just a little tip to use once you get the hang and feel of what your doing) RAISE means you think what you got in your hand is BETTER than what your opponent has.. you can only raise AFTER someone has already made a BET.. say your opponent BETS $200 and you have AA in your hands.. so your thinking MY CARDS ARE BETTER than yours.. thats when you RAISE the amount up to whatever amount you like.. or when you RAISE and can go ALL IN.. you like your cards so much that you think ALL OF the money you have is worth betting BLINDS these are amounts that are automatically deducted from your amount BEFORE the game starts each round to always keep money in the pot whether you decide to play or not.. this is why its called a BLIND.. you BLINDLY put money out before you even see your cards or decide to play your cards.. if there were no blinds there would never be any money in the pot to win if everybody decided to fold and not play.. for example say your playing your friend .. each of you have cards in yoru hand but havent played them at all yet..so you would put out $10 first and they would put out $20.. THEN YOU START to play.. this way if you decide to make a BET FIRST on those AA's you have in your hand and the other person decides to immediatley fold on you.. you atleast just won HIS $20 blind.. then next round it would be the opposite YOU would put up $20 and he would put out $10.. the blinds are always half amounts for example 10/20 30/60 50/100 .. they rise depending on the time or level.. for example 5 minute blinds start off at $10/$20 then after the first 5 minutes of the game they will RISE to $20/$40 and keep going up every 5 minutes.. and if your playing more than one otherperson say 3 or more people at the table ...you only put up the blinds once theyve made theyre rounds at the table.. for exapmle if theres 10 ppl at the table you would only put up the small and big blind ($10 small blind /$20 big blind ) once out of every 9 times you got your cards .. and not like every single hand when you and just your friend plays STACK is all the chips you have in front of you and theyre amount.. if you have $1000 left to bet with then you have a $1000 stack a couple other terms FLOP = the first 3 cards that are layed out on the table TURN = the 4th card that comes out RIVER =the last and 5th card those are just the main terms and some tips.. to give you any of my secrets as a beginner might be a lil too deep.. ive been playing for a long time and got a book of secrets that i could give out.. just play for fun at first go all in make dumb mistakes see what happens and learn from then.. thats how your poker game gets good.. definitely from learning from your mistakes.. in the beginning just have fun then when you get teh feel of it start to use the strategies you learned from yoru mistakes