Slang Terms Used in Poker

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For beginners, playing Texas Hold ‘em poker can be a daunting task, but once you have mastered the basics including hands, betting and bluffing, things become a lot more fun and enjoyable. However, these are not the only things you need to learn, poker has so many slang terms and phrases that sometimes it sounds like a different language. If you have ever watched late night poker or any of the other televised tournaments, and you do not have much of a background in poker you may well be wandering what on earth are the players saying. Well, fear not, here is a breakdown of some of the most common slang terms used in the game of Texas Hold ‘em and other types of poker.

Popular hole card slang terms:

A-A: Bullets, Pocket Rockets, American Airlines

A-K: Big Slick, AK-47

K-K: Cowboys, King Kong

K-8: NY Heart Attack (because a New York player actually dies holding this hand)

A-J: Ajax, blackjack

Q-Q: Dames

J-J: Fish hooks, Jokers

J-7: Jack Daniels

9-5: Dolly Parton

8-8: Snowmen

7-7: Hockey Sticks

6-6: Route 66

4-4: Sailboats

2-2: Ducks, Swans

7-2: – The Hammer (worst hand in Poker)

Other Slang Terms

Bad beat: When you are extremely unlucky and your great hand is somehow beaten by a rubbish hand. Everyone poker player has numerous bad-beat stories.

Fourth Street: The dealing of the fourth card on the board, which is also known as the turn.

Gut Shot Straight Draw: When you have almost hit a straight but you still need one more card, for example, you have 4-5 and on the table is 7-8-9 meaning you only need to hit the 6 to get a straight.

Hole cards: The two cards you are dealt to begin with.

Kicker: The second of your hole card and what also acts as the tiebreaker card. Say, for example, you and another player both have top pair, it comes down to your kicker to decide; whoever has the highest kicker wins.

Muck: Folding your cards without letting any other players see them.

Nuts: If someone has the nuts, it means they have the best possible hand available on the table.

Suited Connectors: Two hole cards that are in sequence and are also of the same suit. For example, 8-9 of hearts.

Trips: Three of a kind, usually a very strong hand.

Tilt: Someone who has been affected by a bad beat of a recent big loss can be described as going ‘on tilt’. They often play irrationally and let their emotions take over rather than thinking decisions through.

As you can see, some of these slang terms are rather comical, but it is fun to learn and easy to use and at least you know what everyone is talking about!



Hiding Poker Tells

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When it comes to playing poker, you will quickly find that it is much more involved than just a simple card game. In poker, everything means something. You will be watched closely by your opponents and you will want to be closely watching them. Poker is one game that has a lot to do with psychology. The more you understand the psychological parts of playing poker; the more that your game will improve. Many new players make the mistake of thinking that poker is all about the cards. It doesn’t take them long at all to see that poker goes way beyond just the cards that you are holding. You will want to know how you can hide your tells so the other players can’t use them against you.

The first thing that you want to do is to make sure that you do things a certain way every time. If you generally look at your cards one time when you have a good hand, then only look at them once when you have a bad hand. You want to make sure that you don’t stare at the higher cards longer than you would if you had lower cards, this is one thing that many players do and it is a big tell.

You also want to watch out and make sure you don’t make certain sounds, which will tell the other players about the hand you have. Make sure you don’t clear your throat, tap your foot, or crack your fingers when you have a certain kind of hand. If you do this then it will tell everyone about the hand you have and they will know they can count on you to let them know what you are holding in the future.

You also want to watch your voice. Some people will speak in a bit of a higher voice when they have a really good hand. They do this because they become excited and it comes out when they speak. This can be a difficult one to control, but one that you will definitely want to practice on and learn how to control. Your voice should be at the same level no matter what cards you are holding.

When it comes to putting your chips into the pot, you will want to have a method of doing so that you follow through with every time. Whether you decide to toss your chips into the pot, or slide them is totally up to you. However, make sure you don’t change up because this will be a tell that will let the other players know there is something different about that particular hand. This is something you will want to be conscious of and make sure you control.

If you tend to sit a certain way, keep it up. You don’t want to scoot closer to the table when you get a good hand, this will really work against you. Be sure to sit the same way that you always do and really take charge of your body language and keep it in check.



How to win in online poker?

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Probably each poker player asks himself the particular question, and especially a beginner level player. The answer to his question seems quite simple-one Leeds to constantly educate himself, analyze his game and do as few mistakes as possible. But what is to be done to play at our best and be a winning player?

The below piece of advice is addressed to beginner level players, who hale just started their poker adventure. The majority of medium level players is already acquainted with the below points and uses them with a varied result. The majority of the below advice are to be found in the texts by our Poker School, however I assumed that it is worth gathering the most important advice in one place and in a short and accessible form point out to what is important to a good poker player.

Learning.

Educate yourself

•    Poker as a game requires at the same time both a theoretical education (books, articles, analysis) and practice. So if you would like to perfect your poker skills we must simultaneously read a lot and play a lot. The more we play the more we’ll know about this complex game

Analyze your game

•    Analyze your game. Not during the game but when it is over. Let’s try to discern the mistakes, discuss controversial situations with more experienced colleagues. The analysis of our own game is to bring us very soon real benefits

Take notes on the enemy.

•    It is worth making notes on our rivals. More often then not an innocent note will facilitate us in taking a decision as well as such notes will help us in the further analyses of our cards. Pay attention what are the cards by which the rivals increase the stake, draw, bluff and so on.



Texas Holdem Tips For Poker Online

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Texas Holdem whether it be online or offline gameplay is without a doubt the most popular casino poker game period. You can visit any online poker gaming website and find litteraly hundreds of money tables for Texas Holdem going at once.

While the idea and style of Texas Holdem is simple and easy to understand, it is said by many experts that this game is the most complex of poker games. It’s complexity and the ability to favor any player at any point during the game makes this game both easy and hard to novice and experts alike. The re-raises are bigger than most typical played poker games and the action is quicker and faster with more players and bets.

Whether you lose or win, the money involved is never a small amount. This game has been often labeled King at the Casino, because all of the factors that make the game so enjoyable.

When you’re playing online poker and unable to observe facial reactions to try to get a perspective on this makes it much harder to do but also offers new ways of getting a gain on your opponent. When most novice or new players have a great hand, their reaction time is fairly quick and they will not hesitate to raise. While this isn’t something to go by all players, it’s common that most players will get excited and cocky once they see a great hand in their favor.

In online poker there is a button which represents a dealer. The dealer in most cases in an online game is a computer or sometimes a professional which makes a button essential. When you’re trying to determine your positional strategy, it’s important to keep up with the current location of the in-game button.

Texas Holdem uses blind bets to force an action without an ante. Meaning that the two players left of the button are forced to put in blind bets.

The blinds are usually quite small during the first two rounds of the game and this is when you should play tight. Obviously the quicker the blinds go up and the lesser your chips, the less tight you’ll be able to be. It’s best to limp on your bets with a small pair and if the flop gives you a set to bet aggressively. There’s plenty of players who are more than willing to throw in half of their chip stack with horrible starting hands and this should be used to your advantage and not to put fear in you.

Players who reach the position of the top 3 finishers are able to relax a bit more because at this point you’ve at least doubled the buy in amount and you’ve reached a point in the game where you can be extra aggressive when you sense a hint of weakness. Seek out your limpers with raisers and more than likely they will fold.

It’s easy to use this strategy at sit and go tournaments because you’re picking out the weeds early, and while you may still suffer your fair share of bad beats just like every other player there, you should finish off with a good sum of money.



Official Poker Rules to Becoming a Successful Online Poker Player

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Poker has become a growing trend in online gambling. Many people – both beginners and seasoned players – are hooked on this card game that the online gaming industry is enjoying popular patronage. If you want to become master of the game, you need to learn about official poker rules to becoming a successful online poker player.

There are a number of official poker rules to becoming a successful online poker player. Most of them have something to do with strategy and fully utilizing your poker skills, instead of relying primarily on chance. While poker is considered a game of chance, it is also a game of good decision-making, which is based on tried and tested tips you can get from years of practice and a whole lot of research.

Official poker rules to becoming a successful online poker player will often tell you that the key to success in online poker lies on your pre-flop strategy. It has been proven time and again by many studies that the choice of pre-flop strategy is a huge factor in determining the outcome of a player’s performance and standing in the game. It is thus vital that you learn to spot a good pre-flop hand and when to fold when it seems obvious or likely that you won’t hit the set you’re aiming for. Contrary to popular practice, you don’t have to stay in the hand just because you’re already in it. A good fold makes you a good player because it trains your sensibility and patience. In fact, a good fold can save you more money than a good bet can. This is especially good advice when you’re a novice. Seasoned players can tell when to fold, but beginners can play safe by folding right away instead of pushing their luck when there’s nothing to hold on to.

Official poker rules to becoming a successful online poker player also always advises you to mix things up. Show the other players some variety and they will be up on their toes. Mixing things up will give you an aura of mystery, which can make you a player to be wary of. This character is great when you like to bluff because most probably, the other players won’t call your bluff and just fold, allowing you to win. Mixing things up means raising to protect your hand, never calling to appear aggressive, and folding on the onset when the flop is bad.

Official poker rules to becoming a successful online poker player advise against playing when you’re drunk, tired, angry, or sad. Poker already invites emotion without these other feelings. You don’t need any more negative vibes which can hazardously influence your game. When you play online, the other player won’t smell the alcohol on you but they’ll be able to tell you’re drunk because of the obvious mistakes you’re likely to make. Playing poker when you’re impaired by some heavy state or emotion will make you end up losing big.



How To Stop Being A Fish At Online Poker Tables

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You will always lose your money if you are no good with maths and basic poker logic just like I was, guys like you and me need extra assistance to become a winning online poker player and something to calculate all the odds and outs and probabilities to make playing poker online as easy as breathing. I have found a really good software and tested it over 12 online sessions at the 0.50/1 no limit hold em tables at pokerstars and full tilt and I won approximately 621.21 so far and only had one losing session where I went all in like the software told me to and my opponent hit one of his two possible outs! You can’t blame the software for such misfortune though…

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Titan Poker Will Send Top Poker Players to Compete at ECPokerTour Barcelona

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LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM–(Marketwire – Dec. 21, 2009) – TitanPoker.com the leading online poker room in Europe, has launched a series of online poker satellite tournaments to determine the winning players that will participate on its behalf at the ECPokerTour Barcelona EUR 500,000 Guaranteed Prize tournament in Spain next March.

The ECPokerTour Barcelona EUR 2,500 + EUR 250 Main Event will be held at the Gran Casino de Barcelona. The tournament will take place over three days from March 19th – March 21st, 2010.

Players winning an ECPokerTour Barcelona package at Titan Poker (value $7,000) will receive the Main Event buy-in; 4 night’s accommodation at Hotel Arts in Barcelona, including breakfast and dinner for each qualifying player and his/her guest; entry to a special players’ Welcome Party and dinner; and funds for flights and spending money.

Super Satellite tournaments are staged at www.titanpoker.com every Sunday, Monday, and Wednesday night, each awarding winning players with the ECPokerTour Barcelona package. Qualifier satellite tournaments are being staged round the clock with buy-ins starting as low as $1+$0.10.

Veteran poker players and novices alike are invited to download Titan Poker’s user-friendly poker software and participate in one of the satellites to vie for a seat at the exclusive ECPokerTour Barcelona tournament.

ECPokertour’s last major event was staged at the at Casino di Venezia in Vittoriosa, Malta between November 13 and November 15 this year, with previous tournaments held in Salzburg and Madrid.

Titan Poker regularly awards its players with seats at the world’s most well-known live poker events, including the World Series of Poker, the ECPokertour, the Aussie Millions, and the Asian Poker Tour.

About Titanpoker.com:

TitanPoker.com is the number one online poker room in Europe and part of the iPoker Network. Titan Poker’s software is developed and maintained by Playtech, a public company and leading gaming software developer. With nearly 30,000 online players at peak hours, Titan Poker guarantees $16,000,000 in monthly prizes, features special sit ‘n’ go tournaments with progressive jackpots as high as $100,000, and awards players with entries to major worldwide poker tournaments. The Titan Poker brand is promoted exclusively by Euro Partners.



Online Texas Holdem – Understanding The Poker Rules

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Understanding the basic texas holdem poker rules will get you a long way in online poker. I don’t mean your basic rules such as high card, pair, two pair, 3 of a kind, straight, flush, quads, straight flush, and finally royal flush. What I mean is poker rules such as knowing when to holdem and knows when to foldem. Not only that, knowing the proper bankroll management will also make you extremely profitable. It all started a few years ago. I was in college with no job, no money, and no desire to do anything. I kept reading poker forums and free texas holdem poker strategies trying to find the right strategy to win with. Little did I know, observing the play of others was my secret weapon.

Before I sat in any cash game, I watched the play of others for a good 10 minutes or more. I jotted down every move they made and what poker hands they played in certain situations. Some of the questions constantly raced through my mind.

Tight or Loose?

Passive or Aggressive?

Tilt or not Tilt?

What kind of poker chip stacks?

Many thoughts raced through my mind as I watched a single cash game table for 10 minutes or more each time before I sat down. This helped me greatly during the game because when it came down to crunch time I was able to perform. I got so good where I could predict my opponents next move and new how much they would bet right away. I knew exactly how much to bet to get them out of the hand and I knew exactly when I needed to fold. The best part about it all is I was making a killing each day and there was no one stopping me, especially since there was thousands and thousands of new players joining everyday. These new players were horrible and just waiting for you to take their money. The best time to cash in on these players is after you see them take a beat. They will buy in usually for the rest of their bankroll and just try to double up as quickly as they can to make themselves feel better about losing. Patience will be the driving force to profit on these players and all poker players for that matter. Most people do not have the patience to keep folding hand after hand if the cards are not coming. They will try to get cute and make moves with complete garbage. Worst of all, when the garbage actually hits they get rewarded! Terrible play gets rewarded sometimes, that is just a fact of poker. You can minimize your loses though by playing smart and never going on TILT. If you ever suffer a bad beat, the best thing you can do is just completely shut off your computer and walk away for a few hours and come back later with a clear mind. I wish you the best of luck in your poker career and please understand that patience will always be rewarded!



Psychology in poker

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Accordingly to the known in poker world sentence that the poker rules are very simple, but we have to master the game an entire life  we are able to learn basic rules of the poker within 5 minutes, but difficulty of that game lies somewhere else. What takes an entire life to master then?

For the beginners it is good to know a few strategy tips, such as hand ranking, the position role in poker, basics of mathematic – odds. If the basic rules are behind us we should ask ourselves what makes poker player a good poker player? And what is the differ between weak and good player?

Poker psychology is the key in this case. Understanding rules of the psychology is very important in poker. Weak poker player can play as long as his emotions will allow to do so, however a bigger loss can break him totally and he won’t be able to play further. Discipline is the skill, which will put our emotions under control.

Poker is this kind of game, which wakes our emotions up – the positive and the negative ones. This requires a huge self control. We should know our weaknesses and try to control them, otherwise we’ll get into poker tilt loosing our chips within a few seconds. Everyone has the moment during the game, when he’s fed up with playing – the best thing to do is to leave the table for a while, even if it is a tournament.

Poker is a game with a chance element as well, so our good decisions can be influenced simply by bad luck. We shouldn’t get mad as we can not have control over everything. There is no way we’d like to get our money back from the opponent who just beat us. This is the blind end – our weak psychological abilities. Loosing the money triggers our negative emotions. We should step back, understand our emotions from the distance and stay focused and calmed.

Don’t start the game if you’re already in a bad mood. If someone made your day miserable. You won’t forget about it during the game and it can badly influence your play.

Another thing is controlling the time. We have to know for how long we’d be able to play on our best. It could be 1 – 2 hours play with a half an hour break. Within the play it is the best to stay focused, so we could get the most out of the game. This is the individual case. We can prolong our game if we know our opponents are weak giving their money away easily. We should take a seat only when we well prepared. Playing when we’re bored or we have a few moments of our spare time is just another mistake, which can cost us money.



How to Win in Online Poker

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Do you like playing online poker? If yes, I believe you understand that it is not a game about luck. In order to win money playing poker, you must know some strategies to beat your opponents.

Playing poker online is very different from traditional casino poker. Now, you do not need to gather friends or visit online casino in order to play poker. As long as you have a laptop and internet access, you can log on to any online poker room and play with people all over the world. There is no geographical boundary and you can play it anytime, anywhere you want.

Today, online poker is getting popular because it is so convenient to play a game; Casino Blog. Poker player online are very different from traditional poker players because they are more aggressive. Aggressive players are more likely to play many hands and you must take this into consideration when you are playing online.

If you are new to online poker, you should join smaller room as you will have a higher chance of winning. This is because smaller rooms have lesser experts and many weak players. I know sometimes the thing that prevents you from joining smaller sites is because of your ego. If you want to win money with online poker, you must put your ego aside. Unless you are very confident with your ability, I advise you to join smaller sites for the time being.

Last but not least, before you join any poker room, take some time to do a research online. Look at their websites and compare their sign-up bonuses before you decide to join an online poker site.