Poker: How to Play Middle Pairs
The Vegas Insider, WOAI.coms poker blogger, has some three suggestions on how to play middle pairs based on your playing style. So before you head off to your next game, make sure you read his advice.
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Poker terminology:
- ALL-IN - To have all of one's chips in the pot. A player who is all-in cannot be forced out of the pot by more betting, but is only eligible to win that portion of the pot he has contributed to. Generally, a SIDE POT is created each time a player is all-in.
- TO GO - The current betting level, as in "$20 to go" meaning every player must contribute $20 (total) or drop. A $10 raise would then make the pot "$30 to go".
- RAKE - Money taken from each pot and given to the house in return for hosting the game. Usually a percentage of the pot (5%-10%) up to some maximum amount.
- CRYING CALL - A call made with little chance of ultimately winning, but marginally better than an immediate fold.
- MILES OF BAD ROAD - Three of a kind. Prefixed with a number, 3*<N>, to indicate 3 <N>s. Thus "24 miles of bad road" is 3 eights, etc. (This obviously doesn't work for face cards.)
- PASSED OUT. - A hand in which nobody opens. What happens next is a function of the game being played.
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