Drawing pocket jacks is no walk in the park
Many Texas Hold ‘em players hate getting dealt two jacks because they feel they’re unlucky with them. Well, chances are it isn’t that they’re unlucky with these cards. They’re simply overvaluing the hand and misplaying it.
In Hold ‘em, the best hands you can get are A-A, K-K, Q-Q, and then J-J. However, there is a significant difference between the strength of the jacks and the queens. With queens, there are only two overcards cards higher than a queen that could hit on the flop and make Q-Q v
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Poker lexicon:
- HOOK - A Jack. So named because the "J" resembles a hook.
- MUCK - [1] A collection of face-down cards near the dealer composed of discards, i.e., folded hands, burns and discards for drawing purposes. [2] To throw one's cards into the muck, thus folding.
- HOYLE - Edmund Hoyle (1769-?) was the authoritative source for rules of card games. Hoyle is to card rules as Webster is to word definitions.
- STUD - Any of several poker games in which some of each players' cards are exposed.
- UNDERDOG - Before all the cards are dealt, a hand that does not figure to be the winner. Ant: FAVORITE.
- PAY STATION - A player who rarely folds, thus who frequently calls better hands and loses. Almost as much fun as a LIVE ONE.
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