Dangerous hands to play, dangerous hands to own
Danger is all around you at the poker table.The trick to becoming a successful poker player is learning how to avoid these dangerous traps, while striking fear into your opponents by playing some tricky hands.Dangerous hands to playThe worst type of hand you can be dealt when playing Texas Hold’em is one that seems to be too good to fold, but isn’t good enough to raise with. Sure, it’s easy to know that you should raise with pocket aces and fold a 7-2 offsuit, but hands like KJ offsuit often can
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Useful poker terms:
- POSSIBLE [STRAIGHT/FLUSH] - Up cards that quite possibly could lead to a straight and/or a flush.
- MARKED CARDS - Cards that have been (illegally) altered so that their value can be read from the back.
- TELL - Any personal mannerisms that reveal the quality of one's hand. E.g., constantly looking at one's hole cards is often a tell of a poor hand. (Some players, knowing this, will at times check their hole cards when they have a great hand and don't need to look.)
- GUT SHOT - A draw to an inside straight, as in 2-3-4-6.
- FOUR OF A KIND - A hand containing all four cards of the same rank.
- TABLE STAKES - A standard rule whereby during a hand players can only bet the money they have on the table. If the bet to a player is more than the player's stack, that player may call with all his chips and be eligible to win only that portion of the pot he contributed to equally. A side pot is created, for which only the remaining players may compete.
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