Recently I have been receiving quite a few emails from colleagues and my buddies all across the country working at some of the top notch Tech. firms expressing their strong desire to migrate back to Chattisgarh for some IT related opportunities. No, not because a lot of Global MNCs are moving to C.G .. read along..

A year ago, I decided to quit the well known IT giant TCS to realize my long cherished dream of a startup here in my hometown Bhilai. Since then we have been taking up a lot of steps to contribute to the IT innovation landscape in C.G. Just like me, there are many others who after gaining ample exposure from the captive R&D centers or the so called MNCs want to return home and be a part of something adventurous, something they have a reason to feel proud of!

It’s my good fortune that I have been endowed with overwhelming support from my well wishers all super excited to join forces with us in the various mind blowing (if I may) initiatives that we are working on, here at Globussoft.

Globussoft – the startup founded by me is now a 100,000$ company in total revenues and we are looking for smart and determined individuals like you who would like to be a part of this rapidly growing IT company and contribute towards the growth of IT and Software in C.G, our home state.

Excuse me for being a little blunt, but the government of the state of C.G is not taking many efforts for the upliftment of IT in the state nor is the local STPI society (Software Technology Parks of India) here in Bhilai any friendly to entrepreneurs and startups (believe me, I have been through it all!!). It’s difficult to retain local talent and candidates flee to metros and other prominent cities the moment they get a chance for reasons which I feel sorry to accept, are true. It’s high time that we take necessary steps to ensure that our state too can match up to the southern states and attract lucrative IT investments.

In the mutual benefit of the state and individuals, I on behalf of Globussoft request one and all to extend helping hands via project sponsorships, direct or indirect equity and be a part of India’s next IT revolution. We know we have the potential; it’s time to put together our collective minds.

It’s not compulsory to be employed with Globussoft to participate. You can contribute as an individual who wants to make a DIFFERENCE – it’s as simple as that!!!

And no, we don’t need any money. By God’s grace and our hard work and will, we have ample of that; all we need is your skills, your ideas and your precious time .

This sounds interesting, how do I proceed?

You need to send us an email with willingness to contribute your time. Right now Globussoft has envisioned 10 business units which have been incepted in 2010. Some are already functioning (Namely, NetVaani and TweetMati), while others are still being conceptualized.

Other than these 10 business units we have around 50-55 products which are at various stages of maturity.

You can take part in any of these business units OR you can suggest a product or an idea which can be incepted as an entire business unit of its own. Recently a guy, Virender from Rajnandgaon contacted me with his idea on device drivers. Our team is collaborating with him and soon the product will hit development roadmap and then head straight to the markets.

This way you too can have your ideas realized with us and in turn help generate IT jobs here in C.G, make it a better state for IT incubation. By working with Globussoft, you have a great marketing team at your disposal. We will help market your product and create business out of it via an established business model which is bound to succeed.

At Globussoft, a business unit is a mature product cum service which has its own eco-system and is able to function independently from the parent company.

Ok, I am in, what do I get in return?

In return you get equity of a product, of a business which YOU own. Your product will literally be your baby. We simply help you find the chance to plant the seed, nurture it, see it maturing and take pride in calling it your baby. It’s an out of the world feeling

Globussoft marketing team helps you with all the latest marketing techniques and you get your share of the overall income the product generates. This helps us hire more people to maintain and grow the product into a mature competitive business unit of its own.

A product sold 50x for less than 100$ is 5000 USD i.e. 2.4 Lakh INR. This is our worst case scenario for sale of any of our products. We normally sell 200-500 copies of our best products very year! Don’t be surprised if this amount turns out to be greater than your annual “package”

So why wait? Time to give momentum to your ideas, see them come to life! Come join us and be a part of this revolution!!

Sumit Ghosh

(The Ideator!!!)

The word S.A.L.E.S has a very deep and prominent impact in my life since I embarked on my career as a Sales Man for Home Security Systems at a local computer shop in Bhilai.

That first job taught me a lot of real lessons that I value today in my entrepreneurial life.  It made me realize the importance of sales in business and how a bad sales team can actually cause a business to go from everything to nothing in a matter of time. I concluded that only goods when marketed and sold right can help build great companies. Whatever I am today as an entrepreneur is due to those very lessons I learnt from that job as a sales guy!

To be honest, I was a bad sales man during my first job as I made zero sales in the first month or rather all of the subsequent months. In fact our entire sales team made no sales, not a single one and the business eventually shut shop just in 3 months due to unsuccessful operations.

One important reason (which I do feel strongly even today after all these years) for that business going down the drain like that was their bad management policy towards sales and salesmen in general. Salesmen were not treated as men and people but only as the ‘numbers’ they generated. For them business was all about numbers. We were just some numbers having no individual identity.

After the first few months of an unsuccessful job as a sales person, this is what my senior boss had to say about sales people they employed - “Jisko Kuch nai aata wo sales me ghus jaata hai.” To be more precise, he meant all sales people are junkards, worthless and should cease to exist. As if they were good for nothing and added no value.

While resigning from that job, I tried to make my point clear to my boss why there were no sales and what was going wrong in my opinion, but he clearly had no interest in hearing a word. Probably he was under the notion what can a 20 year old guy know a thing about sales?!! His total experience in business was greater than my age!

Anyway, this failed job, yes I call it a failure since I was not able to achieve what I was paid for, what I was hired to do opened my eyes to something valuable and I made a few resolutions to myself.

That very experience turned out to be the stepping stone leading me to the entrepreneurial success I envisage today as the CEO of Globussoft where I primarily manage the sales and marketing of my company catering to customers all across the Globe – right from the comfort of a desktop/laptop, sitting in a small town in central India. We make excellent sales, we sell high end products, and we sell technology. All of this without any physical interaction! Everything is virtual and yet we are successful – this is the power of good sales strategies!

That very first failed job of my life actually threw me a challenge. Yep! I challenged myself that ‘SALES’ was no Mt Everest and I can master it in MY ways, out of my own experience. This was in the first year of college,  it was somewhere around September 2007.  Those months I used to search news paper classifieds especially for sales and marketing jobs.

Basically there were 2 reasons for this –

1. Since I was a student I couldn’t afford to bunk college and take up a full time day job ( remember this was in my first year. After third year, I rarely attended college lectures )
2. Only sales and marketing was an area where you could work at the luxury of your own timings since any company hiring you for sales was only truly interested in the numbers you raked in ! They see the number of sales you made, and give you a commission based salary.

I found sales to be very exciting, and at the time a suitable, job opportunity for me. The next few months saw me selling Mobile phones (for a Reliance India Mobile Direct Sales Agent), Cold drinks (for a local cold drink brand), and even Gutka and Pan Masala Brands (yep can you imagine a to-be engineer selling Pan Masala.. lol, it was real fun those days!!).  CDs, soaps, detergents followed. I sold every damn thing I could get hold of and made money out of it. The list is endless!

These small part time jobs led me to discover some real fascinating secrets about Sales which later on became the strong pillars of foundation for my own entrepreneurial journey which was soon to begin.  It gradually descended upon me that Sales is not just about numbers, Sales is about connecting people, knowing them and building trust and faith between each other!

Business is not about profit and loss statements, business is about people! Bringing good people near you and making them great people along with you, that’s what business meant to me.

While I was enjoying my new found success as a ‘successful’ sales person who could sell anything he got hold of to anyone you ask him to sell, I always felt there was something missing. There was always a missing link; I used to wonder what it is.

I was a geek at heart and a coder by passion, so any time that I could save from my college studies and my part time job would be spent reading stuff on latest technologies and coding projects. All this landed me my first freelance project for a local company in Raipur. The owner was so happy with my work that he wanted to hire me part-time for his projects and I gladly accepted his offer. This was still the 5th semester of my college.

And yes, I discovered the missing link too . All those years I was working hard selling almost everything, but the fact was – I was slogging selling products manufactured by others. This was the first time where I got a chance to sell something which was manufactured by ME. Yes, it was software that I wrote, my own baby! This was the first time I got to sell something which I produced and it really matched my passion as well – coding.

So I bid farewell to all my other part-time jobs and focused mainly on software development and selling my own creations to customers. They ranged from custom built software in VB6 , C++ or web sites in classic ASP in those times.

A lot of people prior to me had taken this path and failed, so I too was very skeptical at first. I had heard numerous ghost stories of software ventures failing in their very early days in Chhattisgarh at the time. However with my by-then delectable Sales skills and coding abilities which I could vouch upon, I plunged in without caring about the results.

Though I saw initial success and decent sales of my services (not softwares), I noticed that people in my city or nearby cities couldn’t care less about IT and my software offerings.  Suddenly I started feeling like it’s going to reach me nowhere.

All my Sales skills were leading me to a pit hole as people then had a common notion that all software should be given out free. It could mainly be since here we mostly get the entire windows OS (pirated) for free.

All those stories about IT companies closing down shops in Chhattisgarh kept ringing in my head. There were nights when those thoughts would keep haunting me keeping me wide awake in the middle of the night. Finally I decided not to waste any more time with the local market and carved a fresh dimension for my venture.

It was a totally new experience, out-of-the-box kinda! In fact, I have reasons to believe that Globussoft was the pioneer in entire CG area in this kind of a business concept. I am not aware if anyone before me were even aware of online market places and ways of taking their business to the next level – the virtual one!

Selling your business online is an entirely different ball game! The media, the communication channel, and payment ways – everything changes. But as usual, Sales is fun! This concept seemed to work for me and today I have one of the largest and the fastest growing software companies in entire Chhattisgarh. And without a doubt, our strength is our overtly talented sales teams who I can proudly say understand and appreciate what Sales is all about.

I made it a point to keep sales and marketing under my direct visibility since I strongly believe Sales to be a coherent part of any business and every savvy entrepreneur must master its tips and tricks to be successful in his/her venture.

Concluding words – I dedicate this post to my favorite employee Subeer who is actively helping me with our Sales. But sometimes I get the feeling that he feels he is not doing much of a “worthy” job.

He is not aware of this, but he is one of most sought after employees and truly an asset to me.  I can train 10 coders but to generate sales intelligence in someone is very difficult. I wrote this post putting in days of thoughts recalling all those earlier days, since I strongly believe Sales is not in any way a worthless job and a salesman is by no means a worthless creature.

Sales is an Art, not a skill which can be developed with run of the mill training. It has enough power to make or break an entire lifetime of a business.  Don’t you think it’s time we treat sales people with the respect they deserve! – Sumit Ghosh

Here at Globussoft, we seek genuine techmaniacs!

So, if you are fresher dreaming of whipping up some cool software, please visit our campus with a copy of your -
1. UPDATED resume.

2. Final Year Project with code and documentation.

We will ask you to setup the project in our test labs and do a run through for us. Most candidates get rejected at this phase since they have bought their final year project from somewhere or merely copy pasted some body else’s existing project.

We ask you to explain your involvement during various stages of the project development, the challenges you faced and your overall participation will be evaluated based on your responsiveness. Hence unless  you are genuinely prepared, you are going to find it a tough round to get past.

3. An algorithimic test – We ask you to code 5 programs in our campus.

4. HR round – Last and Final round to see if you are really employable

Please read about Globussoft before coming for this round…

Our business has doubled in last 2 years from 25000$ in first year as revenues to $65,000 in gross revenues in the fiscal 2010. (Source – Software Technology Parks of India – Annual Reports 2009-2010).

Our team strength has quadrupled from a 5 man team in 2007 to a 30 man team in 2010 in bhilai. All in all we are growing superbly fast and we need extremely talented souls to work with us and take part in what they do best.

To be a part of this fastest growing IT firm in Central India we look forward to have following qualities in you.

1. Be a motivated self starter.
2. Be a self learner and a fast learner, we need the fastest to be the fastest in this planet.
3. You should love what you want to do! (3 Idiots , Aamir? Does it ring a bell, if not go watch 3I again), for those you just hate coding, Iam sorry this is not a Good place to work
..
..
And yada yada …

Life @ Globussoft is awesome with weekly cricket matches on Saturdays,quarterly outings and an Annual Picnic. Work timings are flexible since we need to accommodate the whole world as our customer base. Infact to be true Globussoft never sleeps and the Sun never sets for us too

All in all its a fantastic start up to work for , be it a fresher or be it an experienced pro in some cutting edge technology.

Read along following sections based on your professional level.

Hiring for Freshers @ Globussoft

Hiring for experienced professionals @ Globussoft

To all those who know me and have made some assumptions by now -

You all are wrong because -

1. No I was not ultra busy @ Globussoft cooking up code or marketing my company online , or generating leads for my business (as a lot of my friends were thinking) , Just so that you know I used to do the same amount of work earlier when I used to regularly update this blog as well, so being ultra busy is definitively not the reason.

2. I lost interest in “whats latest in technology” and hence I had nothing to write ? Lol, If you really know me, Can this ever happen in my life until Iam dead ?? ha ha, not a good reason again.

3. Probably I tried to follow path of the latest emerging trend of bloggers blogging shit everywhere who even don’t know what they are writing about and now since I feel enough is enough lets gets back to business and leave this shitty blogging business . It was just a trend in time, since every one in my (community, business, peer-group has his blog , I should also have a blog and write some shit in it and read it multifarious time and giggle lol.

For all those who thought this, probably a lot of my competitors, its a real shame that you failed to estimate my flair for writing mates…

Keep looking there is lot more to come…

PS: Some one whom I Admire a lot said that I sound rude and bold in this post

Yeah , she is partly correct since I forgot to add the fun element….

So friends what was something which stopped me from writing all these months other than the most obvious reasons which you might have been thinking.

Well you will laugh to death once I tell you. It was my BAD ASS – WEB HOSTER

Yeah I was using the services some some bad ass indian hosting company called as pradiphosting, he is some bong from west bengal and is such a bad ass. There is no way you can reach him, no phone calls, no address nothing. Only way I can contact him was email and Iam on his mercy whenever he feels like he can answer me , there was no professionalism as such , most of the times my blog was down, sometimes it went down while I was composing a new post.

All this made me so much frustrated that I gave up writing up new posts and start waiting when will this hosting cycle end and I will shift my blog to some new host with better service and timely support.

Now the fun part starts here -

I waited for almost almost 5 months for the billing period of pradiphosting to end without being wise enough to transfer my domain to a different provider.

After 5 months when my hosting expired,I was bombed. I had no way to get my blog back

I sent tons to mails to this pradip hosting guy but he never responded.

Such a big fool Iam, I was made to pay the renewal fees again to pradiphosting and also to the new hoster where I wanted to move the blog.

So I paid double the hosting fees just to save my love, Technomlounge Anything for you my love!

So finally I could login to my cpanel, take backup of everything and move my domain to a new control panel.

Currently my blog resides on one of India’s best hoster’s servers, call me if you want to know and Iam a damn happy customer

The key difference between social networks and more traditional online communities is the friend-of-a-friend (FOAF) trust model that exists in social networks. Users maintain direct connections to their friends, but they also have some level of access to the direct connections their friends maintain to other people. The FOAF model enables users to interact with network users to whom they are not otherwise directly connected. Users can establish different rules of engagement for different types of connections in their network; the closer the connection to a user in terms of degrees of separation, the more trusted that user is. For example, privacy settings can be made more stringent for a FOAF than privacy settings for a directly connected friend.

Just imagine , if 100s of social users keep telling their friends about your fantastic new website… what a killer volume of traffic will it generate for you.

I write the tools to achieve the same. My bots can be a real automated traffic engine for your new website.

The dealer shuffles a standard 52-card deck.

(In casinos, the dealer never plays. A round disc — known as a “dealer button” –

moves clockwise from player to player with each hand. The button marks which

player would be the dealer if the deal were advanced from player to player as the

game went along.)

Games start with the two players to the left of the dealer (the button) putting a

predetermined amount of money into the pot before any cards are dealt, ensuring that

there’s something to play for on every hand. This is called “posting the blinds.” Most

often, the “first blind” — the player to the left of the dealer — puts up half the

minimum bet, and the “second blind” puts up the full minimum bet.

Each player is dealt two cards; face down and unseen by the other players. These are

known as their hole cards.

Betting Begins

A round of betting takes place, beginning with the player to the left of the two who

posted the blinds. Players can call, raise, or fold when it’s their turn to bet. A call

(known as a check when the amount to call is zero) means that the player will match

the highest bet so far put into the pot, minus whatever they have already contributed.

A raise means that the player will call whatever bet has already been made, and raise

the bet by a further amount. A fold means that the player forfeits all money in the pot,

throws in their hole cards, and waits for the next game. The round of betting continues

until every player has either called or folded the last bet/raise, with the consequence

that a player can’t re-raise himself.

The Flop

After the first betting round, the dealer discards the top card of the deck. This is called

burning the card and is done to ensure that no one accidentally saw the top card, and

to help prevent cheating.

The dealer then flips the next three cards face up on the table. These cards are called

the “flop.”

NOTE: Eventually, a total of five community cards will be placed face up on the table.

Players can use any combination of the community cards and their own two cards to

form the best possible five-card Poker hand.

After the flop, another round of betting takes place, beginning with the player to the

left of the dealer (the button). During this and all future rounds of betting, players

have to choose whether to check, call, raise, or fold when it’s their turn to bet.

The Turn

The dealer burns another card and places one more card face up onto the table. This,

the fourth community card, is called the “turn” or “Fourth Street.”

The player to the left of the dealer (the button) begins the third round of betting.

The River

The dealer burns another card before placing the final face-up card on the table. This

card is called the “river” or “Fifth Street.”

Final Betting and The Winner

Players can now use any combination of seven cards — the five community cards and

the two cards known only to them — to form the best possible five-card Poker hand.

The fourth and final round of betting starts with the player to the left of the dealer (the

button).

After the final betting round, all players who remain in the game can reveal their

hands. The player who made the last raise in the river round shows their hand first. A

player can choose not to show their hand if they can’t beat a hand already shown. The

player with the best-ranked hand wins.

Split pots in betting

It is possible for a player to run out of money whilst betting, rendering him unable to

continue betting even though other players might wish to keep betting. In the event

that this happens, the concept of split pots is introduced. The main pot consists of all

money so far contributed by the other players to the pot up to the amount that the

player has so far contributed, plus any other money that was bet by people that have

already folded. This is under contention between all players. Then, a side pot is

created for all the people who still wish to bet. This pot is only filled by money from

those players that still wish to bet and have enough money to do so, and is therefore

also only under contention between those players that contributed to it. If the situation

arises again, a further side pot is created, and so on.

1.Reasoning under uncertainty (opponents’ cards)
2.Dealing with probabilistic outcomes (future cards)
3.Decision-making with multiple options (chips used for bets)
4.Individual differences (different styles of play)
5.Inference of intent (from opponents’ bets)
6.Intentional deception (bluffing, sandbagging)
7.Pattern recognition (detecting trends from flow of game)
8.Economic behavior (factoring impact of amount of bets)

Because of the range of cognitive activities involved, poker provides a broader and more challenging test for cognitive modelling than other games such as chess that focus on a more restricted range of mechanisms (e.g. search). Despite the complexity of aspects involved, it remains a highly tractable domain, partly because it abstracts away from computationally demanding perception and interaction problems. Poker is increasingly being played in online gaming communities where the need for challenging, cognitively plausible agents is increasing. Poker therefore provides a challenging domain at the intersection of fundamental research questions and
potential mass application.

To this end, it is desirable to build a no limit poker game, playing Texas Hold’em, which displays evidence of these cognitive activities. Our project attempts to build such a poker application, with the hopes of competing to the best of poker platforms built to this date.

A lot of times you will need to connect to Flash Media Server , where there is lot of code avialable for AS 2.0 , I was not able to find much code on AS 3.0 . I hope this helps other fellow Action Script programmers out there.

package
{
import flash.net.NetConnection;
import flash.display.Sprite;
import flash.text.TextField;
import flash.events.NetStatusEvent;

public class FMSManager extends Sprite
{
private var nc:NetConnection;
private var rtmpNow:String;
private var msg:String;
private var connectText:TextField;
private var posX:Number;

public function FMSManager ()
{
nc=new NetConnection();
nc.addEventListener (NetStatusEvent.NET_STATUS,checkConnect);
rtmpNow=”rtmp://timfuzos.rtmphost.com/one2oneChat/room1″; //change the host name to your host
//rtmpNow=”rtmpe:/one2oneChat/room1″;  // if your FMS is hosted in local use this
nc.connect (rtmpNow,”sumit”);
}
private function checkConnect (event:NetStatusEvent):void
{
connectText=new TextField();
msg=event.info.code;
trace(msg);
connectText.width=250;
connectText.text=msg;
addChild (connectText);
posX=connectText.stage.stageWidth;
connectText.x=(posX/2)-((msg.length/2)*(6));
connectText.y=175;
}
}
}

The screen would look like this

Connection Screen

FMSConnect

In the last article we saw that we finalized our research to three technology platforms.

Now before finalizing any particular platform we need to see the pros and cons of each.

Before starting lets recall the requirement of this project.

1. The final game should be deploy able in all Operating Systems (MAC, Windows and Linux).

2. It should be deploy able as a Desktop Application as well as Web Based thin client.

3. It should be easily extended to mobile platform with no or very changes to the server code.

4. It should provide Audio-Video interaction of clients in a particular room.

After analyzing the requirements and the three platforms I came to the conclusion that Adobe Flash, AS3, Flex, AIR and related technologies would be the best to meet all our requirements.

The reasons are listed as follows -

1. Adobe provides Flash Media Server which provides a lot of inbuilt functionality for easily game state management.

2. Flash Media Server makes it very easy to add Live streaming audio video to the game rooms.

3. The same code can be reused for a web based client as well as a desktop based client in AIR with almost negligible code changes.

All in all Adobe Technologies proved to be the best to create such an exciting platform for rich entertainment

Next Step

The first step in developing any successful project is choosing the correct technology stack. Dunno how many software evangelists second this idea, but I have known this with experience in many of the projects whose part I have been.

The technology platform or stack can actually depend on lot of points -

1. Team Competency – How competent is your team in the particular technology, It will be quite an herculean task to roll out something in time if you plan to learn and master the technology and language along with developing the product. You should choose a technology which your team has either masters or at least has fair exposure to.

2. How stable and ripe is the technology – I would not prefer to write a commercial product based on some beta technology or product which is not backed by some reputed vendor. Its better to always base your end product with professionally supported technology stack which has a good developer community and decent vendor support. Else if you are stuck somewhere, you will be stuck up for ages with no support or help.

Open Source can be an option many at times, but again make sure its supported with some premium support.

3. Will it support the Architecture you propose  and how easily?-  This is the most important question the Lead Architect of the team should always ask himself. Its very  important to figure out whether the technology and programming language that you are choosing has all the important aspects and features which will be required by a complex Multiplayer game like online poker.

Typically I would expect the language to support OOPs fully, else it will be very difficult to implement proper design patterns and the end result could be spaghetti code.

Along with this I would prefer that the framework has pre built classes for Server-Client implementation (ease of use).

4. Deployment – The last thing you should bother about the most is how and where your application is going to be deployed. In our case, we want to deploy it to all platforms (Windows, Linux and MAC), make it run as a standalone desktop client and also as a web based deployment inside the browser. Along with this we also wanted the possibility of easily porting the client code for Mobile Deployment, without any changes in server code. Along with this, we wanted to have live poker experience where users can see each other in real time with their web cams and speak over microphones in their respective rooms.

I did my research across the web, scanned through tons of sites , books and stuff, I came up to these final technology stacks.

1. Microsoft – .NET and related technologies

2. Adobe – Flash AS3, Flex , AIR , Flash Media Server and related technologies

3. Sun Micro systems – Java, JavaFX and related technologies.

There were lot many others which made up in my list but these three were worth comparing and mentioning.

I have compared the anomalies and advantages of each and shown how I finally arrived to my chosen platform.

Read on…..

Ok so you want so create a Multiplayer poker game, thats why you are here. Writing a rock solid poker game application has been my keen interest over past 2 years. After seeing so much demand of online multi-player poker rooms, I really wished Globussoft should enter the online gaming market one day.

The first step to develop an Online Massive Multiplayer game is to choose a right technology stack. Iam aware of numerous projects which get doomed the day they get started due to choosing of wrong technology stack. Citing an example, in my previous company my bosses chose VC++ to code a complete client server game , the lacunae being that no body in the entire team knew abc of VC++. Our team got a time span of 45 days to learn a language like VC++, master it and roll out a game like Texas Holdem in a matter of 45 days.

I guess you already by now know what the end result was, the project got scraped by the client, the team was not even able to make a single demo to him.

Iam not bragging on our skill-sets here, but simply stating that if you want to roll out something usable and good , set achievable targets and use a technology stack which you feel will take you to the final end product.

Read the successive articles in this series to know how I researched and then finally decided on which framework we should build this game to make it world’s most successful poker application.

Next…

The following is a basic set of instructions on getting you started in Texas Hold’em. However, if you’d rather familiarize yourself with the rules of Texas Hold’em first, then read on below.

The Blinds

In Texas Hold’em, a disc known as “the button” serves to indicate which player is the nominal dealer for the current Texas Hold’em game. Before the game begins, the player immediately clockwise the button posts the “small blind”, typically half a small bet (for example, $1 in a $2/$4 game). The player immediately clockwise the small blind posts the “big blind”, which is always a full small bet ($2 in a $2/$4 game). Now, each player receives his or her two hole cards.
Pre-Flop

After seeing his or her pocket cards, each player now has the option to play his or her hand by calling or raising the big bet. As mentioned before, the big bet is the size of a full small bet. Thus in a $2/$4 Texas Hold’em game, it would cost $2 to call in this initial round of betting (known as the “pre-flop”).
In Texas Hold’em the available actions are bet, call or raise. These options are available depending on the action taken by the previous player. Each poker player always has the option to fold. The first player to act has the option to bet, call or raise. Subsequent players have the option of calling or raising. To call is to bet the same amount as the previous player has bet. To raise is to match the previous bet and increase the bet.
Now, the “flop” is dealt face-up on the board. The flop is the first three community poker cards available to all active players. Betting begins with the active player immediately clockwise the button. All bets and raises occur in small bets (increments of $2 in a $2/$4 game). The same rules apply from above to complete this round of poker betting.
Note: The betting structure in Texas Hold’em poker is different for each variation of Texas Hold’em. See the bottom of this page for additional explanation of betting for Pot Limit Texas Hold’em and No Limit Texas Hold’em. (make pot limit Texas Hold’em and no limit Texas Hold’em anchor tags to the respective info at the bottom of page.)
The Flop
Now, three cards are dealt face-up on the board – this is known as the flop. In Texas Hold’em, the three cards on the flop are community cards available to all players still in the hand. Betting begins with the active player immediately clockwise of the button. All bets and raises occur in small bets (increments of $2 in a $2/$4 game).
When betting action is completed for the flop round, the “turn” is dealt face-up on the board. The turn is the fourth community card in a Texas Hold’em poker game. Play begins with the active online player immediately clockwise the button. On this round, Same rules apply as above except that poker betting doubles from the small bet to the big bet. In a $2/$4 game, betting on the turn is done in $4 increments.
The Turn
When the betting action is completed for the flop round, the “turn” is dealt face-up on the board. The turn is the fourth community card in Texas Hold’em. Play begins with the active player immediately clockwise of the button. On this round, the betting doubles from the small bet to the big bet. Thus, in a $2/$4 game, betting on the turn is upped to $4 bets.
The River
When betting action is completed for the turn round, the “river” is dealt face-up on the board. The river is the fifth and final community card in a Texas Hold’em game. Betting begins with the active player immediately clockwise the button and the same poker rules apply as they do in the fourth card explained above.
When betting action is completed for the turn round, the “river” is dealt face-up on the board. The river is the fifth and final community card in a Texas Hold’em game. Betting begins with the active player immediately clockwise of the button and the same hold’em rules apply as they do on the turn.

The Showdown

If there is more than one remaining poker player when the final betting round is complete playing Texas Hold’em, the last bettor or raiser shows his or her cards. If there was no bet on the final round, the player immediately clockwise the button shows his or her cards first. The player with the best five-card hand wins the Texas Hold’em pot. In the event of identical hands, the poker pot will be equally divided between the players with the best hands.
At the end of the final betting round, if there is more than one remaining poker player, the last bettor or raiser shows his or her cards first. If there was no bet on the final round, the player immediately clockwise the button shows his or her cards first. The player with the best five-card hand wins the pot. In the event of identical hands, the pot will be equally divided between the players with the best hands. Texas Hold’em rules state that all suits are equal, so split pots are more common than in other variations of poker.
After the pot is awarded, a new game of Texas Hold’em is ready to be played. The button now moves clockwise to the next player and new hands are dealt to each player.
No Limit Texas Hold’em – Very important things to remember.

Minimum raise: In no limit Texas Hold’em, the raise amount must be at least as much as the previous bet or raise in the same round. As an example, if the first player to act bets $5 then the second player must raise a minimum of $5 (total bet of $10).
Maximum eligible raise: The size of your stack (your chips on the table).

Texas Hold’em (or simply, “Hold’em”) is the most popular poker game in the casinos and poker card rooms across North America and Europe.
Before you begin playing Texas Hold’em however, you’ll have to learn the rules first. In Texas Hold’em, each poker player is dealt two cards (known as “hole cards”) that belong only to that player. Five community cards are dealt face-up on the “board”. All players in the game may use these cards in conjunction with their own hole cards to make the best five-card poker hand possible.

Our project is to create the NO Limit Version of the game.

In No Limit Texas Hold’em : A player can bet all of his chips at any time.

How to play Texas Holdem Poker