Stud Poker Strategy: Do Tell! Part 4 of 4
In my last three columns, I showed you how to figure out your opponents’ hands – a combination of figuring out the type of player you were against, deducing their hands from their betting action and the exposed cards, and by recognizing…
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Poker dictionary:
- FLUSH - A poker hand consisting of five cards all one suit.
- RACE - In tournaments it is sometimes convenient to remove all lower-denomination chips from play, as the remaining players' stacks tend to grow. Small chips are converted to larger chips and any odd chips are "raced off" in the following way: each player with odd chips places them in front of his stack and is dealt one card for each chip. Highest card (rank and suit) takes all the small chips and converts them to higher-denomination chips.
- STUD - Any of several poker games in which some of each players' cards are exposed.
- LITTLE SLICK - In Hold'em, hole cards of A-2, suited or not.
- SPLIT [OPENERS] - In draw poker, to discard one or more openers, usually to draw to a straight or flush. Normally requires the opener to declare the act and retain the discards so that the act of opening can later be validated.
- FIRE - To make the first bet in a betting round. Used to emphasize that the player bet when a check was possible, showing strength.
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