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| ronjonsilver | Jul 2 2012, 07:45 PM Post #1 |
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POKER TERMS ACE-HIGH: A hand that has not hit anything and the highest card is an ace. ACES FULL: A hand with 3 aces and a pair of any other value. ACT/ACTION: To make a play (bet, call, raise, or fold) at the required time. ADD-ON: In a live game, to buy more chips before you have busted. In tournament play, a single rebuy for which all players are eligible regardless of their stack size. This is usually allowed only once, at the end of the rebuy period. The add-on often offers more chips per dollar invested than the buyin and rebuys. AGGRESSIVE/AGGRESSION: The tendency for a player to open betting or raise rather than call or check. ALL IN: Having bet all of your chips in the current hand. ANTE: A forced bet required, in some types of poker, of all players before the hand begins. BACKDOOR: A draw requiring two or more rounds to fill. For example, catching two consecutive cards in two rounds of seven-card stud or Texas hold 'em to fill a straight or flush. / A hand made other than the hand the player intended to make. I started with four hearts hoping for a flush, but I backdoored two more kings and my trips won. BAD BEAT: Losing with what is, or appears to be, a considerably stronger hand. BANKROLL: The amount of money that a player has to wager for the duration of his or her poker career. / 2. To fund someone's participation in a game. As in, "John bankrolled Kate's $5,000 entry fee into the tournament." BANKROLL MANAGEMENT: Choosing the correct stakes and game type to avoid exhausting one's bankroll during downswings. BET: Any money wagered during the play of a hand. BETTING STRUCTURE: The complete set of rules regarding forced bets, limits, raise caps, and such for a particular game. BIG BLIND: The larger of two forced bets in certain types of poker. BIG SLICK: Poker slang for ACE, KING. BLIND: A type of forced bet. BLUFF: A bet made with a hand that is mathematically unlikely to be profitable either to make money or to disguise play patterns. BOAT: Another name for Full house. BOUNTY: An aspect of some poker tournaments that rewards players for eliminating other players with a cash prize for each player they eliminate, separate from the tournament payout structure. BUBBLE: The last finishing position in a poker tournament before entering the payout structure. BULLY: A player who raises frequently to force out more cautious players, especially one with a large stack for the size of the game. BURN CARD: A card that is removed from the deal to prevent cheating. BUTTON: Most commonly a marker that indicates the dealer position at the table, but other specialized buttons exist. CALL: To match a bet or raise. CALLING STATION: A player who frequently calls bets or raises but rarely invokes them. A calling station is usually a loose passive player. CASHING:Winning a share of the prize money in a tournament. CHECK: To bet nothing. CHECK RAISE: Deceptive play whereby a player initially checks with the intention of raising should another player bet. CONNECTORS: Two or more cards of consecutive or close to consecutive rank. CONTINUATION BET: A bet made after the flop by the player who took the lead in betting before the flop. DEAD MAN'S HAND: A pair of aces and a pair of eights; Wild Bill Hickock was killed holding this hand. DEAL: To distribute cards to players in accordance with the rules of the game being played. DEALER: The person dealing the cards. DONKEY: A weak player, also known as "fish" or a "donk". DOUBLE UP: Betting all of your chips and winning, ending up with twice as many chips. DRAWING DEAD: When you cannot win, no matter what cards come up. EARLY POSITION: A position where a player must act before the other players. This is a disadvantaged position. EQUITY: One's mathematical expected value from the current deal, calculated by multiplying the amount of money in the pot by one's probability of winning. For example, if the pot currently contains $100, and you estimate that you have a one in four chance of winning it, then your equity in the pot is $25. If a split is possible, the equity also includes the probability of winning a split times the size of that split; for example, if the pot has $100, and you have a 1/4 chance of winning and a 1/5 chance of taking a $50 split, your equity is $25 + $10 = $35. FIFTH STREET: The final round of betting and the fifth card on the table, aka "the river". FLOP: The dealing of the first three face-up cards to the board, or to those three cards themselves. FLUSH: A hand comprising five cards of the same suit. FOLD: To discard one's hand and forfeit interest in the current pot. FOUR OF A KIND (QUADS): Four cards with the same value. (Ex: A, A, A, A) FOURTH STREET: The fourth card on the table, and the third round of betting. aka "the turn". FULL HOUSE: A hand that contains three-of-a-kind and a pair. (Ex: A,A,A, K,K) LEVEL: Used in tournament play to refer to the size of the blinds which are periodically increased. For example, in the first level the small blind / big blind may be $50 / $100, in the second level the blinds may be $100 / $200. LATE POSITION: A position where a player can act after most or all of the other players have acted. This is an advantaged position. LIMP, LIMP IN: To enter a pot by simply calling the bet to them instead of raising, called so because a player with a marginal hand may be willing to pay the minimum to see more cards, but would likely fold if the bet increased further. MUCK: To discard a hand. Also the pile of discarded hands. NUT HAND (THE NUTS): The nut hand is the best possible hand in a given situation. Players sometimes evaluate hands by ranking them as being the "Second nuts" or being the "Pure nuts". The "Pure nuts" is usually the absolute best hand to have at that moment which is impossible to beat, the "Second nuts" is the second best hand only beat by the "Pure nuts", etc. The "nut low" is the absolute worst hand to have in a given round. OFFSUIT: Cards that are not of the same suit. OVER CARD: A community card with a higher rank than a player's pocket pair. PLO: Pot limit Omaha RAKEBACK: Rebate/repayment to a player of a portion of the rake paid by that player, normally from a non-cardroom, third-party source such as an affiliate. Rakeback is paid in many ways by online poker rooms, affiliates or brick and mortar rooms. Many use direct money payments for online poker play. Brick and Mortar rooms usually use rate cards to track and pay their rakeback. REBUY: An amount of chips purchased after the buy-in. In some tournaments, players are allowed to rebuy chips one or more times for a limited period after the start of the game, providing that their stack is at or under its initial level. RIVER: The river or "river card" is the final card dealt in a poker hand, to be followed by a final round of betting and, if necessary, a showdown. In Texas hold 'em and Omaha hold'em, the river, is the fifth and last card to be dealt to the community card board, after the flop and turn. A player losing the pot due only to the river card is said to have been "rivered". ROYAL FLUSH: A straight flush of the top five cards of any suit. This is generally the highest possible hand. RUNNER-RUNNER:[/B] A hand made by hitting two consecutive cards on the turn and river. Also "backdoor". SATELLITE: A tournament in which the prize is a free entrance to another (larger) tournament. SHORT STACK: The player with the fewest chips at the table has the short stack. SHOWDOWN: After the final round of betting, the players cards are turned face-up to see who wins. UNDER THE GUN (UTG): The playing position to the direct left of the blinds in Texas hold 'em or Omaha hold 'em. The player who is under the gun must act first on the first round of betting. VALUE BET: A bet made by a player who wants it to be called (as opposed to a bluff or protection bet). This is typically because he has a superior hand that he expects to win at showdown, or a very good draw for which he can increase his pot equity by more than the amount of his bet. Edited by ronjonsilver, Nov 22 2012, 10:26 PM.
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