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 [...]
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 [...]
Maniac
Poker Help: Maniac
A maniac is a poker player who is implements an extremely aggressive poker strategy, raising, betting and bluffing at whim. A poker player can be a maniac in varying degrees; however, at the extreme, a so called true manic, is a card player who is no longer playing poker, but rather gambling haphazardly. [...]
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 [...]
Dealer Position
In Texas Hold’em, as in most poker games, the dealer holds the best position for executing effective poker strategy. He can watch how the other poker players are playing their hands, and has the final say after all the other players have laid their poker bets. (During the betting rounds on the flop, turn and [...]
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