ALL-IN<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
When you bet all your remaining chips on a single hand of cards. You either have some really unbeatable cards (like four aces or a straight flush) or you\u2019re just trying to scare the other players into folding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
BLINDS<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
In Texas Hold\u2019em, the ante consists of two blinds, the big blind and the small blind. These rotating antes will hit everyone eventually. The small blind<\/strong> is the first player to the left of the dealer, and the big blind<\/strong> is the next seat farther left. The big blind is double the amount of the small blind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Probably the most exciting aspect of poker: the bluff. Very skilled poker players can hide their TELL<\/strong>, put on their best poker face, and drop a huge raise with a crap hand (i.e. a pair of 2s). If everyone folds, the bluff has succeeded. But be careful: someone may call your bluff. Use with caution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Texas Hold\u2019em is a community poker game where players make their poker hands from 2 private cards (hole cards) and five community cards which are shared by all players. Community cards are dealt face up in turns: the flop, the turn, and the river, with rounds of betting before and after each turn. Players must make the best possible 5-card poker hand from the seven total cards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The plastic disc used to indicate the dealer. The button passes clockwise after every hand of Hold\u2019em, which also advances the blinds. The dealer rotation maintains fairness at the table, as certain player positions have advantages over others. Players in a \u2018late position\u2019 have more information to make better decisions than players in an \u2018early position.\u2019 Player position runs clockwise from the dealer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The initial 3 cards dealt face up in the community card area (table center) in a game of Hold\u2019em after the 1st<\/sup> round of betting (pre-flop bets). Another round of betting follows the flop and 2 more single-card deals (the TURN<\/strong> and the RIVER<\/strong>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n The 2 private cards dealt face down to each player, which are combined with the community cards to make a poker hand. Players place their first bets based on these 2 cards. The hole is also called the pocket.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The river is the 5th<\/sup> card dealt in the community cards row in a Texas Hold\u2019em match. It is the final card dealt in the round, and players win or lose after the final bets are in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n After the final round of betting ends, players turn their cards face up to determine the winner. A showdown occurs if two or more players have called or gone all-in during the final betting round.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A physical \u2018tick\u2019 or other sign communicated in \u2018body English\u2019 that signals how strong or weak a player\u2019s poker hand is. Pro players hide their own tells, while they can often read the tells of weaker players. A good example of a poker tell is the character Teddy \u2018KGB\u2019 in the poker-related film \u2018Rounders.\u2019 Whenever KGB (John Malkovich) splits an Oreo cookie and listens to it, he is bluffing; if he eats the cookie, he is about to wipe the table with you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The 4th<\/sup> community card dealt face-up in a game of Hold\u2019em. It follows the initial 3-card deal (the flop), and signals a new round of bets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you\u2019ve just scored a pair of fish hooks and are about to knock a fish back into the muck, you\u2019re probably sitting at a table at the WSOP with some seasoned Hold\u2019em players. Hold onto your hats, cowboys, we\u2019re about to leave the dusty trail behind and dive deep into the territory of fish, sharks, and whales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Poker slang for pocket Kings, the 2nd<\/sup> best starting hand in Hold\u2019em.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Some poker hands are legendary. They bear the name of the player who made them famous, and thus became forever etched in the poker lexicon. When Wild West legend and pro poker player Wild Bill Hickok was shot dead while playing a hand of poker, the cards found in the dead man\u2019s hand consisted of two pairs: 8s and aces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The \u2018Doyle Brunson\u2019 is a starting hand of 10 and 2, made famous by the man himself. Against impossible odds, Brunson won the WSOP main event in 1976 with this seemingly weak hand, simply by a twist of fate (he got a full house from the turn and the river). In 1977, he won the main event again\u2014with the exact same starting hand. Since then, the 10-2 hand is known as the Doyle Brunson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A newbie or a weaker player at the poker table. But if you\u2019re new to the game, don\u2019t worry about the card sharks, they\u2019re probably looking for bigger fish to fry (see WHALE<\/strong>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n A nickname for 2 pocket jacks, one of the strongest starting hands in Hold\u2019em.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Gutshot is another Hold’em slang term for an inside straight. This particular straight can only be completed by a single card in the middle of a series. If your hole cards were a 7 and 8, and the flop shows a 10 and a jack, only a 9 would complete your straight. You are half as likely to hit a gutshot as an outside straight, which completes your straight from either end (i.e. you had 7-8 and the flop shows 9-10; you then need a 6 or a jack instead of a 9).<\/p>\n\n\n\n The stack of discarded cards in a round of poker. A player tosses his cards \u2018into the muck\u2019 when he folds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The best possible hand a player can have at any given moment. If you have 2 jacks in the hole, and the flop shows jack-8-3, your trip jacks would make the best possible hand. Congratulations, you have the \u201cnuts!\u201d However, if the turn and the river add 2 aces to the mix, anyone with an ace in the hole would beat your trip jacks with trip aces, giving them the nuts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A pair of aces in the hole (pocket), and the best possible starting hand in Hold\u2019em.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A \u2018tight\u2019 player who sits round after round without betting for the pot. When the rock suddenly enters with a big bet for the pot, they probably have a really good hand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Like a fish \u2013 only with a much bigger wallet. A player whose bankroll is much larger than their knowledge of the game of Hold\u2019em. Card sharks love to swarm on whales and reduce them to bones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The World Series of Poker is the biggest poker tournament in the world and the poker mecca for professional and amateur poker players alike. The main event of the WSOP is a final round of no limit Texas Hold\u2019em, with blinds of $100,000\/$200,000 or more, and millions in prize money. In addition to fat wads of cash, winners go home with some serious poker bling: the coveted WSOP gold bracelet. 2019 marks the 50th<\/sup> anniversary of the WSOP<\/a> in its Las Vegas home.<\/p>\n\n\n\nBLUFF<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
COMMUNITY CARDS<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
DEALER BUTTON<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
FLOP<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
HOLE CARDS<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
RIVER<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
SHOWDOWN<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
TELL<\/h3>\n\n\n
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Hold\u2019em Slang for the Seasoned Player<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
COWBOYS<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
DEAD MAN\u2019S HAND<\/h3>\n\n\n
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<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\nDOYLE BRUNSON HAND<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
FISH<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
FISH HOOKS<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
GUTSHOT<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
MUCK<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
NUTS<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
POCKET ROCKETS<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
ROCK<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
WHALE<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
WSOP<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Ante Up!<\/h2>\n\n\n
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