Brick and Mortar
Poker Help: Brick and Mortar
Poker slang for a real physical location for a poker game. It normally refers to a casino or cardroom that has standard poker amenities like tables, dealers, poker chip centers etc. This is different than an online poker room on a poker website.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
How to play Texas Hold’em Poker Online
Success and popularity of online poker
Online poker has become increasingly popular and highly successful.
In recent years Online poker, especially online versions of Texas Hold’em, has exponentially increased in popularity and success. Millions of dollars are made (and lost) in digital poker rooms around the world every day. The convenience of playing poker and making money [...]