Brick and Mortar
Poker Help: Brick and Mortar
Poker slang for a real physical location for a poker game. It normally refers to a casino or cardroom that has standard poker amenities like tables, dealers, poker chip centers etc. This is different than an online poker room on a poker website.
The Bubble
Poker Help: The Bubble
The bubble is a specific point in poker games, particularly hold em poker games, where the card game has become stagnated, and a player needs to bust out so that his poker chips can enter the pot and the other players can win some money. The “bursting the bubble” is a strategically [...]
The Button
Poker Help: The Button
The button is an essential tool for any poker table. It is a small, generally white, acrylic disk which indicates which poker player is the dealer. On a standard poker table the person who has the button in front of them is the player who has to deal the cards. During [...]
Poker Shark
Poker Help: Poker Shark
A poker shark is a smooth, aggressive, intelligent, shrewd, and ruthless poker player who dominates the game, and takes the chips of the other players, the “fishes”. He often ‘baits’ the other players into making moves which play directly into his superior poker strategy. A poker shark knows when to play [...]
Bot
Poker Help: Bot
This is a term which is poker slang for a “robot.” In the online poker world, robots are computer programs that play poker online automatically as if they were a poker player. They play poker without any help from humans. Poker robots are considered illegal by most online poker website, and their presence [...]
Bad Beat
Poker Help: Bad Beat
Bad beat is a poker term for an extremely lucky and improbable win by a hand which should not have been in the pot in the first place. It happens when a hand which is a huge underdog beats a hand that had a much greater chance of winning the pot by [...]
Draw Dead
Poker Help: Draw Dead
Quite possibly the worst possible position that one can be in during a poker game. Drawing dead is attempting to a make a hand which, even if you get the right card to complete, you will not win the pot because an opponent already has a better hand. For example, [...]
Leak
Poker Help: Leak
A leak is a weakness in your poker game, or a consistent problem with your poker strategy. Especially in online poker having a leak can really hurt your chip count. Good examples of leaks would be betting too heavily on inside straight draws, or playing extremely aggressively when one gets a pocket pair. [...]
Fishy Play
Poker Help:Fishy Play
A term for players who are playing extraordinarily loose and generally executing a very poor poker strategy. In online poker rooms these are generally poker rookies or people who just don’t understand the game very well. The term fishy player is usually used for a poker player, whos not quite as bad [...]
Fish
Poker Help: Fish
A fish is a poker term for a poor card player who executes bad poker strategy and gives their money away. Generally, it is a bad idea to upset poor players because of the high likelihood that they will leave the game (meaning you can’t get any more of their money). This is [...]