Even with a good hand, keep an eye on the flop
Most of the difficult decisions you’ll face in a typical Texas Hold ‘em hand will come after the flop. It’s easy enough to figure out what a good hand is before the flop and how you should play it, but many variables must be considered after the flop. Once those three community cards are dealt, many more possibilities exist. Here are three particularly dangerous flops along with advice on how you should proceed. The paired flop. It can either be a really good discovery for you or the flop of deal …
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Poker glossary:
- STRAIGHT - A hand consisting of 5 cards in sequence but not in suit.
- LIMIT POKER - A poker game wherein the amount to be bet is fixed, or at most variable within a prescribed minimum and maximum. Ant.: NO-LIMIT POKER.
- BIG SLICK - In Texas Hold'em, hole cards of A-K, suited or not.
- CALLER - One who calls. Sometimes used collectively, as in "3 callers".
- BACK DOOR - Applies to a hand that was made in the last card or two, specifically not a hand the player was originally planning on having. Most often applied to straights and flushes.
- OVER - A term used in describing two pair or a full house. "Kings over tens" means two pair, kings and tens. "Jacks over", also "Jacks up" describes a hand that is two pair: Jacks with an unspecified lower pair. Also used to describe a full house, distinguishing the three of a kind from the pair. The hand J-J-J-A-A could be described as "Full house, Jacks over Aces".
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