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In most home poker games, the deal is passed clockwise (right to left), from person to person after each hand. Casinos furnish a professional dealer who deals every hand for you. But because betting position is important in every hand, we use the small plastic puck called the button in order to keep track of whose deal it would be if the players were passing the deck and dealing the hands themselves. The person who owns the button in any given hand has the significant advantage of being the last one to act in each round of betting, and so the dealer moves the button one spot clockwise after the end of each hand.

Before the hand begins, the player sitting directly to the left of the button posts the small blind (a bet which is usually half the size of the big blind, but which in some games may be as small as one-third of the big blind and in others as large as two-thirds of the big blind). The player to the immediate left of the small blind posts the big blind. The first card is then dealt to the player who posted the small blind, and the deal proceeds until each player has his four hole cards. The player to the left of the big blind is the first to take action; as in Hold'em, his options for the first round are limited to calling (matching the big blind), raising, and folding.

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