ARTICLE TERMS IN PLAYING POKER

THE TERM IN POKER OR OFTEN ALSO CALLED GLOSSARY POKER

        The game of poker originated from the western world, which is why there are so many popular terms or speeches that are difficult to understand in this poker game. I try to give a little understanding of the term to make it easier for us all to learn and play this poker. I try to give a little explanation of the terms to make it easier for us all to learn and play this poker. Understanding this term is also very useful when we will play online poker game and suddenly there appear these terms on the chat box or when you're reading an article, then at least we know what is being discussed or discussed.

• Aces Up = A pair of As cards coupled with another pair of cards

• Action = Turn a player to action

• Ajax = As Cards and Jacks in your hand (AJ)

• Alligator Blood = Play well even under pressure

• All-In = Doing betting with all remaining capital

• Ante = Mandatory cut (mid) at the beginning of the game

• Back Door = Combination made using Turn and River cards

• Bad Beat = Experience defeat while holding a very strong combination of cards, usually caused by River card

• Bankroll = Total capital overall

• Beer Hand = Card 7-2 in hand, is the worst starting hand

• Belly Buster = Doing drawing straight in (card in hand 7-5 flop 8-9-J then required 6 or 10 card to make straight)

• Berry Patch = Being in an easy game because there are a lot of ugly players in it

• Bicycle = As small straight, A-2-3-4-5 (A-5)

• Big Lick = A 6-9 card is not in the hand

• Big Slick = Card As and King in hand (AK)

• Blank = Unable to create any combination with the five cards on the board

• Blind = Mandatory betting turn to start the game, usually consisting of small blind and big blind

• Bluff = Snapping / Boasting done to win the game from a player who has a weak card or combination, does not even have anything (blank)

• Board = Five open cards on the table that will be matched with each card in hand to create the best combination.
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• Boat = Full House (Combination of Trip and Pair, AAAKK)

• Bottom Pair = The lowest pair of cards combined with the card on the board, the card in hand 6-4, the KJ-4 flop, then you managed to make a bottom pair combination that is pair 4

• Bring In = Starts a betting round

• Broadway = Straight with As card (A-5/10-A)

• Bullets = Pair of As on hand (AA)

• Bumb = Doing Raising

• Button = Piece as a dealer marker, this piece will go around continuously for hours.

• Buy In = Registration fee to join the game or tournament

• Call = Following the betting done by the opponent

• Calling Station = The type of player who only makes calling rarely do betting or raising

• Cap = In Limit Holdem there is a limit to betting every round, a player who does the last betting according to the boundary is called cap player

• Card Speaks = Winner determination is determined by the best combination of cards

• Chameleon = Someone who is always changing the type of game eg from aggressive-maniac to tight-aggressive

• Chase = Doing calling without any combination, hoping that the next card opening will make a combination

• Check = Skip the opportunity to betting, set the number of pots to stay the same as before

• Check Raise = Check the first time and then raise the betting done by the opponent, this is usually done to lure the opponent when you hold a very strong combination of cards

• Chop = Small piece (fee / rake) done by poker room from active pot

• Cold Call = Calling at once to a betting and a raising

• Community Card = Five cards open on the game table to be shared by all players (View Board)

• Computer Hand = Card Q and 7 in hand (Q-7)

• Connectors = Card in sequence in hand (6-7, KQ, 9-10, etc.)

• Counterfeit = The appearance of a card on the board that helps your opponent succeed in making combinations that beat your card combination

• Cowboys = A pair of King (KK) cards

• Crying Call = Keep calling despite knowing that most likely to lose
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• Dead Man's Hand = Make a combination of 2 pieces of AA and 8-8 pairs

• Deuce = Card 2

• Dolly Parton = Cards 9 and 5 on hand (9-5)

• Donkey = Bad Players (Fish)

• Door Card = The term in the Stud game is the first card open (the third card is shared for you, the first 2 cards are dealt with closed)

• Down To The Felt = Running out of capital / chips on a table

• Doyle Brunson = Cards 10 and 2 (10-2)

• Drawing Hand = Card in hand has the possibility of making a combination of straight, flush or full house on the next card opening on the board.

• Ducks = A pair of 2 cards (2-2)

• Eyes of Texas = A pair of As cards (See Bullets)

• Family Pot = A round where all or almost all players on the table are calling over a betting

• Fast = Play aggressive

• Fifth Street = The fifth card opened on the board (View River) or fifth card shared with Stud.

• Fish = Bad player / bad game

• Flop = 3 pieces of cards that open together on board (second round betting)

• Flush = A combination of five cards for example a card at 8h-9h (sedaun hati) board 2h-5h-Jc-Ks-7h then you can make a flush 9h-8h-7h-5h-2h

• Fold = Closing the card in the hands of the surrendered defeat

• Four Flush = Four cards appear on the board

• Four of a Kind = 4 similar cards (See Quad / Quartet)

• Full House = Card in hand plus card on board produces a combination of a trip and a pair eg card in AK AKK AKK hand then you can make full house KKKAA
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• Gay Waiter = Card Q and 3 in hand (Q-3)

• Going South = Stop playing and get off the table after successfully winning the pot several times

• Gutshot = Doing drawing straight in, usually needed guts (gut) who dare to do this type of drawing

• Hammer = Win a pot with card in hand that is 7 and 2 (7-2)

• Heads Up = Duel, play one on one

• Heinz = Cards 7 and 5 on hand (7-5)

• Hilton Sisters = A pair of Queen cards in hand (QQ)

• Hole = A pair of cards in hand (2 cards handed out for you / starting hand)

• Hooks = A pair of Jack cards in hand (JJ)

• HORSE = A game that alternately within the specified time plays the game type (H) oldem, (O) maha, (R) azz, (S) even card Stud and Stud (E) ight

• HOSE = A game that alternately within a specified time plays the game type (H) oldem, (O) maha, (S) event card Stud and Stud (E) ight

• Inside Straight = The card in your hand has the possibility of making a straight, in-hand 8-9 flop JQ-2 combination, then you need a card 10 to make a straight combination.

• Isolate = Doing a big betting so that the players who hold the weak card decide to fold, now you live dealing with 1 or 2 players whose cards are strong enough (isolation)

• Jackson Five = J and 5 Card at hand (J-5)

• Kicker = The highest card in hand that does not make pairs on the board, usually very decisive if it turns out that both have the same pair then the winner is determined by his kicker
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• Kojack = King and Jack Card in hand (KJ)

• Ladies = A pair of Queen cards in hand (QQ)

• Lay Down = Do fold

• Limp In = Calling big blind

• Lock = Ensures minimum winning win of 1/2 of pot value

• Loose = The type of a player who plays a lot of starting hand (playing almost every card he shares for)

• Lumber Yard = King and 8 Cards at hand (K-8)

• Make a Hand = Want to make a combination with the card in your hand

• Maniac = The type of player who plays very Loose and Aggressive, rarely do Call or Fold, often doing bluff and raising.

• Montana Banana = Cards 9 and 2 on hand (9-2)

• Muck = Closing card in hand that must be defeated not to be seen by other players.

• Mullets = A pair of 7 cards in hand (7-7)

• Nut Flush = Possible combination of highest flush (Ax)

• Nuts = The best possible combination of cards in hand with 5 cards on the board

• Nut Straight = Possibility of the highest straight combination (Ax)

• Odds = Your chance of success makes a combination

• Off Suit = Card in hand is not sedaun, for example 7 hearts and 2 curls

• On Tilt = Doing betting randomly and wildly, usually because the heart is hot due to a painful defeat (See Bad Beat)

• Open = Turn betting for the first time in a round

• Open Ended Straight = Likely to make a straight-down straight combination, for example, card in hand 7-4 and flop K-6-5, then can do drawing straight up-down to get card 8 or 3

• Outs = The number of remaining cards that will make you a winner, for example a card in the hands of J-10 and KQ-8 flop then you have 8 outs to make a straight combination of 4 aces and 4 cards 9
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• Overcard = Card in hand is bigger than all card on board, for example card in QJ hand and flop 10-7-3 then Q and J card is called over card

• Over The Top = Doing betting is much larger than the total pot of this ssat

• Paint = Card image / big card (AKQJ)

• Pocket = 2 pieces of cards that are handed out to your hand (See Hole)

• Pocket Pair = A pair of similar cards that are handed out to your hand (AA, KK, etc.)

• Pot Limit = The type of poker game that limits the maximum raising of the total pot value at that time, for example in the pot there is $ 100 then the big betting or raising maximum when it is $ 100

• Pot Odds = Comparison of the current pot value against the betting value given by opponent for you to decide to do folding, calling or raising.

• Prom Nite = Cards 9 and 6 are in hand (9-6 suits)

• Put = Suspect while holding the opponent's combination, for example when a King card appears on the board and the opponent does betting, then you "put" it when it makes a combination of a pair of King
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• Quads = 4 similar cards (See Four of a Kind)

• Rabbit Hunting = See which cards will come out on Turn and River after the round game is declared the winner. (The card's opening is not exhausted but all players are reluctant or do not dare to pass it on.) A player may ask the dealer to open a card to see what card is actually out if he continued the game of the round)

• Rag = ugly card in hand where the cards do not manage to make any combination on the board (Blank)

• Rainbow Flop = The opening of three cards on the board featuring 3 kinds of leaves such as As heart, King curling and Jack shovel usually this flop will make the flush combination very difficult to obtain because the opening of the next 2 cards must be the same sedaun, for a combination of still big chances are with this flop.

• Raising / Raise = Increase the value of betting that has been done before

• Rake = Small pieces done by the poker room of each pot that is active as a fee for the poker room (see Chop)

• Rakeback = Return of capital for players from small pieces (rake) by poker room as a result of previous agreement between player and poker room (More details please learn in Poker Rakeback article this)

• Read = The ability to "read" the opposing game and the ability to measure the strength of the opposite card hand relative to the board.

• Represent = Ability to process image / image for the opponent against the strength of your current card hand. Suppose that on the flop 3 cards appear sedaun, if you do betting strongly then you are "represent" that you have held a combination of flush cards

• Ring Game = Standard poker game / Cash Game

• River = Last card shared on fifth board / card (See Fifth Street)

• Rock = The type of a player who plays like a rock, play tight and aggressive, very often do fold / very little play starting hand

• Rolled Up = On the Stud game, the third card is handed out to make your Trip Trip successful
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• Royal Flush = 10-A Straight Flush, best / highest combination in poker game

• Sailboats = A pair of 4 cards in hand (4-4)

• Sandbag = Play a very powerful combination slowly to lure opponents to betting and maximize profits because at the end of the round he surely comes out as the winner

• Scare Card = An unexpected card appears on the board because its appearance may be a sign of defeat for you

• See = Doing caling

• Semi Bluff = Almost like Bluff, but you have 50:50 chance to be a winner, usually done while holding a strong drawing card

• Set = Three similar cards (See Trip / Three of a Kind)

• Short Stack = Play with minimum registration fee (View Buy In), play with short capital.

• Show Down = When the winner determines by both shows the cards in their hands and compares them to the cards on the board

• Side Pot = If a player does an All-In and is followed by 2 or more players there will be a side pot due to the difference in the number of chips from each player

• Slow Play = The same as Sandbag, that is slowly playing a very strong card and definitely win

• Sit and Go (SNG) = Small tournament that does not start by time but by number of players. Suppose SNG 20 player, then if the registration has reached 20 people then the tournament is immediately started.

• Snowmens = A pair of 8 cards in hand (8-8)

• Stealing = Betting or raising a big one in the hope that all other players become scared, close the card so that the round game ends right then and there you win the pot without having to pitch the card
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• Straight = Serial card combinations such as AKQJ-10

• Straight Flush = Combination of consecutive and sequential cards eg Kc-Qc-Jc-10c-9c

• Suited = A sedaun card in hand such as As-Js, 10d-8d

• Suited Connectors = Sedaun and sequential cards in hand eg 10h-9h, 8d-7d, 7s-6s, etc.

• Tell = Motion and player behavior that can reflect the strength of the card he held at the time (live) and to online can be known through the pattern of betting and the length of time to act

• Three of a Kind = Three similar cards such as JJJ

• Tight = The type of player who plays tight and aggressive, selective in playing the starting hand and paying attention to the position when playing it. This type of game is the most powerful and profitable in playing poker

• Top Pair = Card in your hand one of them managed to make the pair with the highest card on the board, for example card in KJ hand and flop K-10-3 then you managed to make top pair King

• Trips = Three similar cards (AAA, KKK, etc)

• Turn = The fourth card opened on the board

• Under The Gun = The exact position to the left of the Big Blind in a round. This position is the hardest position in poker because it must act first in every round.

• Wheel = Straight As bottom (A-5)

• Wired = 2 players have the same Pocket Pair.

• WSOP = World Series Of Poker, World Poker Championships held annually, which can be followed by anyone from around the world with a $ 10,000 buy-in fee per person.

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