I’ve never seen more than 13 players in a game at any casino, the tables aren’t big enough to hold that many. Since Hold’em is generally played among 2 to 10 people, you’ll only see a spread larger than that late at night when the poker room is short a dealer, in tournaments when they occasionally combine two tables, or if you have some kind of strange home game going where you like lots of players and lots of action in each hand. So Texas Hold’em could be played by up to 22 players (44 player cards, 3 burn cards, and 5 community cards) sitting at the same table (you better have a big table). In Texas Hold’em, you do not discard the top card of the deck prior to dealing a round.
