Try stop-and-go play in Hold’em tourneys
There are all kinds of ploys you can use at the poker table. Stop-and-go play is a little trick that’s very effective in No Limit Hold’em tournaments.You’re in a tournament and are sitting on a short stack in relation to the other players. The blinds are 200 and 400 with a 50 ante, and you have 3,200 in chips remaining. Everyone folds to the button player, whose big stack of 82,000 dominates. He raises the pot to 1,200.The small blind folds, and you in the big blind hold A-Q. You feel it’s the b
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Poker jargon:
- FREE CARD - A card dealt after all players checked in a betting round.
- LOOSE - Playing more hands than the norm. Antonym: TIGHT.
- DEAD MONEY - Money contributed to the pot by players who have folded.
- 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.)
- OVERPAIR - In Hold'em, a pair in the hole that is larger than any community card on the board.
- TRIPS - Three of a kind. In Hold'em the term SET is used when two of the three cards are hole cards.
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