Pot Limit Betting
PL is a betting structure that requires certain mathematical capabilities to master. Players need to be able to track pot sizes and they have to be able to calculate a pot-size raise instantly. In order to move on to PL strategy considerations, one first needs to understand how PL betting works.
Now then, even though PL [...]
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 [...]
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.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]