Aggression pays off in poker
Y ou can plan all the check-raises you want when you’re playing a hand, but unless someone goes along with it by betting, you will have to adjust your strategy to figure out where you are in a hand. Young, aggressive pro Isabelle Mercier found herself in that situation at the World Poker Tour’s $15,000-buy-in Five Diamond World Poker Classic at Las Vegas’ Bellagio in 2006. With blinds at …
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Poker talk:
- STAND OFF - To call a raise. "Opener raises, I stand off".
- FIRE - To make the first bet in a betting round. Used to emphasize that the player bet when a check was possible, showing strength.
- TOP PAIR - In flop games, having a hole card that matches the highest card on the board.
- SIDE POT - When an active player runs out of money during the course of a hand, the remaining players participate in a second or SIDE POT for the rest of the hand. Additional side pots are possible if several players run out of money at different points in a hand.
- PAT - Holding or being dealt a pat hand. "I'm pat" would mean "I don't want to draw any cards.
- PAT HAND - In draw poker, a hand that does not need any more cards. Specifically, a straight, flush, full house or straight flush. One might bluff and represent a pat hand but actually hold something else.
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