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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
Ace High
A poker hand that has no special card rankings (pairs, full house etc.) and the highest card is an ace.