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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Uber Donk
Poker Help: Uber Donk
An Uber Donk is an extreme form of the poker slang donk. It is used for somebody who is playing very very poorly. You are an uber donk if you can’t execute anything close to intelligent poker strategy.
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 [...]
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, [...]
Muck
Poker Help: Muck
Muck is a term for the pile of burned playing cards which sits in front of the dealer. In standard poker games once the muck pile reaches a critical mass the cards are re-shuffled and dealt anew. This word can be used as a verb or a noun. For example: “She mucked [...]
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. [...]