The number of worldwide players in online poker has shown a steep rise in recent years, mainly because traditional methods like brick-and-mortar venues are threatening new players. The casino owners who provide separate poker rooms incur a lot of costs, and the profit accounts for only one percent of the total revenue earned by these casinos.

Online poker games, on the other hand, are very cost-effective as inserting a new table doesn’t require occupying the physical space, and they also allow the players with lower stakes. It allows entry into the tournaments online for free, so beginners with less experience and wealth can quickly try their luck by playing poker online.

Now before you switch to the hobby of playing poker in a virtual set-up, it is better to get to grips with the basic rules and varieties of formats with their specific rules and regulations. One of the emerging online poker communities in India is playing Rummy online.

Salient features related to the game of poker:

Hand-rankings; It is the parameter to decide the ultimate winner of the game, as to which hand holds the winning card. Players should know ten hand ranking systems before hitting the battleground.

• Royal Flush: It is the unbeatable stack that consists of an Ace, King, Queen, Jack, and 10 of a single suit.
• Straight Flush: It consists of five cards in a sequence of the same suit.
• Four of a kind: It has four cards in a sequence and one side card.
• Full House: It has three cards of the same rank with a combination of two different cards of similar rank
• Flush: Five cards belong to the same suit but do not maintain proper sequence.
• Straight-Five cards of different ranks arranged in a sequence.
• Three of a kind: It has three cards of the same rank with two more side cards that are unrelated among themselves.
• Two pairs: It has a combination of two cards of the same position, two cards of different places matching each other, and one side card.
• Pair: You can choose two cards of matching rank and three unrelated side cards.
• A high card: Any hand that does not qualify for the above-listed categories may win in case of a tie if it has an Ace-high.

There are specific terminologies related to poker rules and regulations if we discuss the modes of actions involved in the game. The dealer is the person who determines the amount to be placed in the pot before starting the betting. It is categorized as ‘small blinds’ and ‘big blinds’ depending on the table positions of the players, respectively. In most cases, the latter is double the amount of the former, and after the bets are made, the game proceeds in the clockwise direction starting from the dealer.

The series of actions involved in any virtual set-up like poker stars are as follows:

• Call: Matching with another bet.
• Raise: Increasing the bet amount in the ongoing round of betting.
• Fold Withdrawl of the bet made.
• Check: Declining to announce any bet before waiting for later.
• If the player runs out of enough chips to make a bet, the person can put forward all the remaining chips.

The most exciting feature of some apps, like Rummy, is loading up your bank account with the winning cash amount. When someone is playing a points Rummy cash game, the real cash rummy is calculated by a set format depending on the value of the rupee at that exact time.