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Poker Terms
Last Updated on Tuesday, 15 February 2011 12:14
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First of all:

  • Holdem (Texas Hold’em), fewer Texas Hold’em Poker (Texas poker) – the most popular form of poker.
  • Poker room – a site with a special program that allows you to play poker. Often online poker rooms are in the networks.
  • Poker Network – a group of poker rooms on a common software that enables their customers to play with each other, we have customers from them as to the general. The largest is the iPoker, Ongame, Microgaming, IPN (Boss Media).
  • Deposit – the money you make to them to play and win
  • Deposit Bonus – this is money that you give the poker room when you play a certain number of hands, very rarely after the deposit, but, of course, remove them immediately anyway not
  • Hand (hand) – a set of cards that you form a combination
  • Rake (rake) – a percentage that takes a poker room with each bank, if it was a flop, usually about 5%. With the rake the poker room pay bonuses.
  • Session (Session) – game session, the time period from the accession to the table before leaving.

About money and rates:

  • Bankroll (bankroll) – the entire capital player. The more it is relatively rate (BB) the better, well when up to 1000 times. For example, table 0.10 / 0.20 is $ 200 Most often it is compared with respect to the money that you can make at the table is usually a 100 BB or $ 20 in my example. Then the optimal ratio of 10 times. Only in this case short-term failure can not affect the overall success.
  • Stack (stack) – all the money available for players to play at this table (not all).
  • Pot (pot) – the bank is in the center of the table, something that everybody wants to win.
  • Fixed limit or just limit – fixed limit, bet size table defined and can not be exceeded. On these tables is better to learn the rules but the game is basically different from the Pot limit and No limit where the distribution of the ode can lose your stack or double it.
  • Pot limit (Pot Limit) – the bet can not be larger than the size of the bank.
  • No limit (Know Limit) – Limit Poker. The value of bets a player can do in any of the rounds of trade is not limited from above, a player may at any moment to go all-in.
  • Ante (ante) – a mandatory bet that all players prior to submission (for example, herd or in the later stages of tournaments).
  • Side pot – extra (side) pot. It occurs when one player went all-in, but others more money and they play with him at even money, and separately between themselves, (video tutorial)

Pro cards and a combination of: (themselves a combination of)

  • Big cards: Ace (A) – Ace, King (K) – King, Queen (Q) – Queen, Jack (J) – Jack, Ten (T) – ten. For example, KT – is king, with dozens, not with an ace.
  • Suit: diamonds – diamonds, spades – spades, clubs – clubs, hearts – hearts.
    In books, articles, programs they are designated by one letter – s, c, d, h, respectively. For example, AdQs – is the ace of diamonds with the queen of clubs.
  • Suited (s) – suited cards, for example, AKs – the king and the ace of any one suit.
  • Offsuited (o) – unsuited cards, for example, 87o – eight and seven different colors.
  • Nuts – candy, nuts – the best combination you can not kill in the current scenario. For example, the variegated 3JA flop c AA you will have the nuts, but on the TJA is no longer as KQ can form a straight.
  • Kicker – kicker, when comparing identical pairs, two pairs, and sets a penalty won by the player who has the highest card remaining, This card is called the kicker.
  • Top kicker – the best kicker – the best possible kicker, is the highest card after the open. Under pair – the lower pair – a pair of low cards below the table.
  • Pocket pair – a pocket pair, the pair obtained at hand.
  • Low pair – the younger couple, the pair made up pocket cards and the player low card table.
  • Middle pair – the average couple.
  • Top pair – an older couple (one card you have, one on the table).
  • Overpair (overpair) – pocket pair above the highest card on the table.
  • Trips (TRIPS) – the same three cards, a couple on the table and one from you. Much weaker set.
  • Set (set) – the same three cards, one on the table and a couple from you.

Do and know: (about the chances and mathematics)

  • Pot odds – odds ratio of bets that a player needs to do to the value of the bank.
  • Implied odds – implied odds, taking into account future bets rivals.
  • “Play by chance” need to be in the pros.
  • Outs – ends outs – how many cards can help you get the best hand, is used in calculating the odds.
  • Notes – Notes on opponents, their strengths and weaknesses, it is very convenient.

Players and positions:

  • Position – position, position players at the table relative to the dealer (he is also the button). The dealer (the dealer) in a clockwise direction are small and big blinds, early, middle and late position.
  • Blinds (Blinds) – in English “blind, blinds:
    • Small blind or SB – “small blind”, a small forced bet, is sitting after the “Button”
    • Big blind or BB – “big blind”, no longer obligatory bet, sits after the “small blind”
  • Early position – early position, two – three players after the big blind.
    • Under the gun or the UTG – under the gun, so called player sitting just behind the big blind, this is the most disadvantageous position.
  • Late position – the position of late – the button and 1-2 players in front of them:
    • Button (Button), he’s the dealer – a word that player is always the last one.
    • Sutoff or CO – a player before the cutoff
    • Hijack – player before Sutoff

Action at the table: (video tutorial)

  • Bet (Bet) – the rate, the addition of chips into the pot
  • Call (call) – equalization rates
  • Check (check) – do not bet if you did not have before bidding
  • Fold (Fold) – fold in response to the bid of the opponent.
  • Raise (raise) – to raise the bet made by another player.
  • ReRaise (rireyz) – response to a raise on a raise, that is, more raise.
  • Threebet (three-bet) – is the third rate is actually the same as rireyz. For example, the flop someone makes a raise, the other increases – that is three-bet. Blinds – the first bet, raise OPPA – second, even a raise – the third, three-bet. Then maybe 4bet and 5bet.
  • All-in (Ol-in) – in Russian “all in” – a situation when a player puts in the bank all the money (goes all-in). Always possible in no-limit poker, often in the “Pot limit”, less “Fixed limit” (when you have no money on the normal rate).
  • Push (Push) – the same as the All-in
  • To move the deer – the same as the All-in
  • Showdown – autopsy map view – at the end of trade on the river, equating card players show cards, and determine the winner.
  • Muck – fold, without revealing their
  • Limp (limp) – enter the game at stake flop without a raise (with a strong hand to introduce the competitors in error), they say limp or limp.
  • Draw (Draw) – to pull it when the combination at the moment is weak, but having the chance to improve to become a Nuts. Typically, a flush draw (four cards to a flush) and a straight draw (four cards to a straight).
  • Drawing dead – pull vmertvuyu when a player loses, even getting what it wants, For example, a player pulls a flush, when another already has a full house.
  • Overbet (overbet) – inadequately big bet.
  • Slowplay (slowplay) – passive draw a strong hand (check, count) per leave the maximum number of opponents in the game and make them believe that they have strong cards. Dangerous if you are not 100% Nuts.
  • Chat

The meaning of rates:

  • Bluff (Bluff) – a bet, when you think your hand is weaker opponent in the hope that he will think the opposite and folds.
  • Protection bet – protective rate, the rate of finished, but not very strong combination, in order to protect your hand, not giving opponents a free card into paying for a draw.
  • Position bet – positional rate, the rate of the last player when all he was told to check.
  • Semi-bluff – semi-bluff bet to win the pot right now, and the hand has a good chance to improve. Semi-bluffing is often used with good draws.
  • Steal the blinds – to steal, to steal the blinds – raise from late position or from the SB, when there was no betting before, to get the blinds to fold and take the pot.

Features players: (video tutorial)

  • Calling station – characteristic of a player who likes to Call they are usually in cons, need to play with them on the need for strong cards.
  • Fish (fish) – fish, a poor player.
  • Bluffer – often (but not always!) Bluffing player, not necessarily to check it yourself.
  • Loose (Loose) – someone who plays too many hands and do not know Poker odds.
  • Tight (Tight) – tight, playing only the best cards.
  • Rock (Rock) – rock, known as a very tight player.
  • Tilt (Tilt) – loss of self-control player, accompanied by an increased looseness and aggression is a consequence of previous losses.
  • Opp – short for your opponent.

Options for tables:

  • Heads Up (heds an, “with uplifted heads”) – a game of two players (one on one), sometimes because they say at the table when more people, but the game only two.
  • Short handed – short table 6.5 players.

Pro Tournaments: (types of tournaments)

  • Tournament (Tournament) – participant pays an entrance fee (Buy-in), get the same amount of chips and play until there is only one. The prize fund consists of fees, is distributed normally between 10% percent of the players, retired last. There are tournaments in which a minimum prize pool guaranteed online poker room and does not depend on the number of participants.
  • Buy-in (buy-in) – fee for the tournament. For example, a $ 10 +1. Together, Buy-in, a $ 1 a Fee.
  • Fee (phi) – the fee the poker room for hosting the tournament with her is a rake and bonus points.
  • Rebuy (riba) – restoration of chips at a loss. For example, in a tournament in May +0,5 $ Rebuy will be $ 5. Fee is taken one time and dokupke not charged.
  • Add-on (edishn) – able to purchase at a price Rebuy initial amount of chips (vozm. more) at the end of the first hour
  • Freeroll (freeroll) – the tournament is free to enter, the prize gives the organizer, usually money or tickets to other tournaments.
  • Freezeout (freezeout) – a tournament without Rebuy and Add-on.
  • Sit-n-go / S & Go (sit and gos) – tournaments without a specific start time, the game starts as soon as players rack up. Usually played on a table, at least two or three or more.
  • Shootout (Shootout) – tournaments in the several rounds in the next pass only the winners table. For example, Shootout 100 people at full tables, will be held in two rounds. Will be 10 tables at once, and then they sit down at the final winners. Disadvantage: if you beat all the quick, long wait for the others. Plus: the final table will begin with an equal amount of chips.
  • Satellite (SAT for English. Moon) – a tournament prize (prizes), which is involved in larger and more expensive tournament.
  • WSOP (World Series of Poker) – Annual World Championship of Poker, held in June-July in Las Vegas. Most of the participants get there via online satellites.