Bottom Pair
Poker Help: Bottom Pair
This is basic poker terminology for having the lowest card that turns up on the flop in your poker hand. For example, if you hand consisted of a King and a 5, and the flop came up, Queen, 10, 5, you would have the bottom pair. In Hold em poker this can [...]
Donkey
Poker Help: Donkey
A poker term for an extraordinarily bad card player. Somebody who makes extremely bad or thick headed poker plays. Often times a donkey is the player at the card table with the shortest stack.
General Behaviors of a donkey
There are different levels of donks. The following are common “strategies” of donks.
Only looking at their [...]
Crack
Poker Help: Crack
A poker slang term for breaking or “cracking through” a tough hand. You would most likely hear this term at poker tables when a relatively strong poker hand, like pocket Kings, is broken.
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 [...]
How Not to Get Kicked out of an Online Poker Room: Online Poker Etiquette and Poker Tips
People act differently in online poker rooms they would at a poker table. The anonymity of internet poker tables, and the fact that people are more comfortable writing than speaking, leads people to act in ways they would never act in the “real” world. Online poker is often the scene of conduct you won’t find [...]
OESD
OESD, Poker Terms
OESD is a poker acronym for Open Ended Straight Draw which means a card completing the top or bottom of the straight will give the poker player a straight.
Learn How To Play Poker-Online Poker and Live Poker Games
Learn How to Play Poker - Online Poker (Internet Poker) and live Poker Games
This is an online poker guide giving you a basic idea of how to play Texas Hold’em Poker.
The Button Position
Texas hold’em is unique in the poker world in that each of the poker players sitting at the table gets a turn to [...]
The Button, Dealer Position
Texas hold’em is unique in the poker world in that each of the poker players sitting at the table gets a turn to be the card dealer.
The card dealer is usually signaled by a button or a place mark. This tool is rotated to another card player in the clockwise direction after every poker hand.
Ace High
A poker hand that has no special card rankings (pairs, full house etc.) and the highest card is an ace.
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