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This will be the first part of 4 articles about poker terminology. These articles will be very important to understanding the next poker advices.
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Add-on
In some tournaments with rebuy an add-on is the option for any players to purchase additional chips, regardless of the current size of their chip stack. Typically tournament add-ons are only offered at a specific time during the tournament.
Air
A hand of extremely no relative value. Having air is the equivalent of having nothing, or running a complete bluff.
All in
Moving the entirety of your stack into the pot with a bet, raise or call.
Ante
A forced bet of predetermined amount wich must be paid by each player prior to receiving their cards.
Backdoor
A term used to denote a draw that requires two (in flop games) or more rounds (in draw games) to complete. For example, a player holding Ah5h seeing the flop with just one heart could backdoor into nut flush if two more hearts came on the turn and the river.
Bad Beat
Any loss in poker where you have the greatest chances of winning.
Bankroll
The total collection of a player’s money devoted to playing poker.
Bet
Chips or money put into the pot as the first action in a betting round. And also the count of actions made in the hand. For example Bet/3Bet/4Bet.
Blank
A card dealt that is very unlikely to change anything about the hand in progress.
Blind
A type of Ante wich only two players pay. The player to the left of the dealer pays the small blind and the player two to the left of the dealer pays the big blind.
Blocker
In a community card game it refers to holding one of the cards your opponent needs to complete their hand. “I had a pair, with a blocker to his straight”.
Blocking Bet
A (typically small) bet made with sole purpose of blocking your opponent from making a larger bet on any street.
Bluff
Betting with the worst hand to win by a better hand fold.
Board
The community cards on the table are the board cards.
Botton Pair
The lowest possible pair in a community card game is known as botton pair.
Broadway
The hightest possible straight in poker: T,J,Q,K,A.
Bubble
When a tournament needs only one more player bust before the remaining players make it into the money, the tournament is said to be on the bubble.
Button
A puck used to denote the player acting as the dealer in the hand. Any player acting as the dealer is said to be “on the button”.
Buy-in
The inicial amount of money needed to exchange into chips an begin playing.
Call
Matching the bet made by another player.
Calling Station
A player unwilling to fold or bet, but call every hand on every street.
Check
If a player chooses to not bet with no action ahead of them, they can check.
Check Raise
Checking only to raise on your next action after any player bets.
Chop
When two player have the same hand, they split, or chop, the pot.
Coin Flip
A situation where two hands have aproximately the same chances of winning.
Cold Call
A player with no money invested in the pot who calls after a bet and raise (or a single large bet) is said to be a cold calling.
Collusion
A form of cheating, two players acting together at the table to one end goal.
Combo Draw
Having more than one possible draw, such having a straight and a flush draw.
Connectors
Cards next to each others in rank are connectors. For example 7,8.
Continuation Bet
Any player who raises pre-flop, then bets out on the flop is making a continuation bet, or C-Bet.
Cooler
A type of situation where both players hold hands so strong that neither of them can realistically get away.
Cutoff
The player to the right of the utton is in the cuttof seat.
Dead Money
Money wich is a part of the pot, but not part anyone’s bet. Is also a term used for blinds and antes.
Deal
To negotiate the pay-out of a tournament rather than playing for the prizes.
Dealer
The player with the dealer button or the person physically dealing the cards.
Dominated Hand
When your opponent holds a hand wich is a vast statistical favorite over yours. For example AQ vs AK.
Donk Bet
A bet made by the player who is to act first and who just called the opponet’s bet on the previous street.
Draw, Drawing hand
Any hand wich needs to hit a specific rank or suit card to complete.
Drawing Dead
A hand wich has no possible way of winning, regardless of any cards to come.
Dry Board
A term used to describe board texture in flop games. Dry board is the typ of board where there are no many possible draws that players cold be chasing.
Early Position
Being first, or among the first position, to act on pre or post flop.
Equity
The % of the pot you would expected to receive over infinite permutations of running the hand. If you’re 90% to win, you have 90% of the equit.
Expectation, Expected Value, EV
Used to describe expected long-term profit certain games, tournaments, etc. It is a complex variable entailing many factors, but when players talk about EV, they usually try to explain thier earning potential.
Final Table
In a tournament, when there is only one table of players left.
Fish
A bad poker player, also sometimes termed a donkey. A fish is someone who is either inexperienced or simply does not care to play the game the way supposed to be played.
Flat Call
When a player just calls in a situation where they could have raised.
Float
Calling a bet with weak hand with sole intention of bluffing at a later point during the hand.
Flop
The first three community cards dealt face up.
Flush
Having five cards of the same suit.
Fold
Throwing away your hand to avoid having to call a bet.
Fold Equity
The imagined amount of equity you gain by betting with the chance of your opponent folding their hand.
Four of a Kind
Having four cards of the same rank. Four of a king only beat by a straight or a Royal Flush.
Free Card
When all players in the hand check, the players receive “free card”.
Freeroll
A poker tournament free to enter awarding the finishers with genuine prizes.
Freezout
A tournament with no re-buys or add-ons.
Full House
A full house is a five card poker hand with three cards of one rank, and two cards of another. For example A,A,A,Q,Q, this is an aces full of queens.
Full Ring
Refers to a poker table with nine or ten players.
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