Poker jargon – G
July 22nd, 2008
garbage
The “muck”.
A worthless hand.
going south
To sneak a portion of your chips from the table while the game is underway. Normally prohibited in public card rooms.
grinder
A player who earns a living by making small profits over a long period of consistent, conservative play.
guts, guts to open
A game with [...]
Anaconda Poker
July 20th, 2008
Anaconda is a variety of the card game Poker, also called “Pass The Trash Poker.”
Simple Play
This version of the game is also called “3-2-1 Anaconda” or “3-2-1 Left.”
Each player is dealt 6 cards. They then each select 3 cards to be passed to the player on their left. These cards are simply set [...]
Poker bad beat
July 18th, 2008
In poker, a bad beat occurs when a hand, which was at one time a big favourite to win, loses. Typically the term is only applied in this way when the player holding the eventual winning hand misplayed it spectacularly.Alternatively, the term is also applied when a particularly strong hand loses to [...]
Poker jargon – F
July 15th, 2008
family pot
A deal in which every (or almost every) seated player called the first opening bet.
fast
Aggressive play. I was afraid of too many chasers, so I played my trips fast.
feeder
In a casino setting, a second or third table playing the same game as a “main” table, and [...]
Blind man’s bluff poker
July 11th, 2008
Blind man’s bluff is a version of poker which is unconventional in that each person sees the cards of all players except his own.The standard version (also called Indian poker) is simply high card. Each player is dealt one card which he places on his forehead facing outwards, and a round of [...]
Poker jargon – E
July 10th, 2008
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 [...]
Texas hold ‘em terminology and strategy
July 9th, 2008
Starting hand terminology and notation
There are (52 × 51)/2 = 1,326 distinct possible combinations of two hole cards from a standard 52-card deck. However, since suits are only relevant for flushes, many of these hands are indistinguishable from the point of view of pre-flop strategy. In fact, considering suits to be equivalent [...]
World Poker Tour
July 7th, 2008
World Poker Tour
Sport
Texas Hold ‘em
Founded
2002
Commissioner
Steven Lipscomb
Motto
“May all your cards be live, and your pots be monsters” (Unofficial)
No. of teams
No officially recognized teams
Country(ies)
United States (Founded)
Most recent
champion(s)
David Chiu, 2008 WPT Championship
TV partner(s)
Travel Channel, NBC, GSN
Official website
www.WorldPokerTour.com
The World Poker Tour (WPT) is a series of poker tournaments featuring most of the world’s professional players. It was [...]
Poker jargon – D
July 6th, 2008
dark
Describing an action taken before receiving information to which the player would normally be entitled. I’m drawing three, and I check in the dark. Compare to “blind”.
dead blind
A blind that is not “live”, in that the player posting it does not have the option to raise if other players [...]
Texas hold ‘em rules
July 5th, 2008
The descriptions below assume a familiarity with the general game play of poker, and with poker hands.
Objective
Like most variants of poker, the objective of Texas hold ‘em is to win pots, where a pot is the sum of the money bet by oneself and other players in a hand. A pot is [...]
Poker jargon – C
July 4th, 2008
calling station
A weak player who frequently checks and calls, but rarely raises.
cap
A limit on the number of raises allowed in a betting round. Typically three or four (in addition the opening bet). In most casinos, the cap is removed if there are only two players remaining either (1) at the [...]
Texas hold ‘em
July 3rd, 2008
Texas hold ‘em (also hold’em, holdem) is the most popular of the community card poker games. It is also the most popular poker variant played in most casinos in the United States. Its no-limit betting form is used in the main event of the World Series of Poker (WSOP), as seen on [...]
Stud poker
July 2nd, 2008
Stud poker is any of a number of poker variants in which each player receives a mix of face-down and face-up cards dealt in multiple betting rounds. Stud games are also typically non-positional games, meaning that the player who bets first on each round may change from round to round (it is [...]
Draw poker
July 1st, 2008
Draw poker is any poker variant in which each player is dealt a complete hand before the first betting round, and then develops the hand for later rounds by replacing cards.
The descriptions below assume that you are familiar with the general game play of poker, and with hand values (both high and low [...]
Satellite tournaments
June 30th, 2008
A satellite tournament is either a minor tournament or event on a competitive sporting tour or one of a group of such tournaments that form a series played in the same country or region. The term is most commonly used in reference to minor professional or competitive junior tennis.In professional tennis, [...]
Poker jargon – B
June 29th, 2008
baby
A low-ranked card, usually used in lowball games. Also “spoke” when between ace and five.
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 [...]
Poker jargon – A
June 28th, 2008
A-B-C, A-B-C-D
A sequence of the lowest cards in a lowball game. For example, the hand 8-6-3-2-A might be called an eight-six-a-b-c.
Uncreative or predictable play. He’s an a-b-c player.
ace-to-five, ace-to-six
Methods of evaluating low hands.
act
To make a play (bet, call, raise, or fold) at the required time. It is Ted’s turn [...]
Online poker
June 27th, 2008
HTML clipboardOnline poker is the game of poker played over the Internet. It has been partly responsible for a dramatic increase in the number of poker players worldwide. For the year of 2005, revenues from online poker were estimated at US$200 million per month.
Online poker adverts on the London Underground
Overview
Traditional (or [...]
Poker variants
June 26th, 2008
The card game of poker has many variations, most of them created in the United States in the mid-1900s. The standard order of play applies to most of these games, but to fully specify a poker game requires details about which hand values are used, the number of betting rounds, and [...]
Poker tournaments
June 25th, 2008
A poker tournament is a tournament at which the winners are decided by playing poker, usually a particular style of poker.
Contrast this to a ring game, where the game is ongoing with no formal structure to determine a single winner in a certain length of time.
Entry fees and prizes
In a typical tournament, [...]















































