Inside the Tour, Vol. 85: Inside ‘The Book of Bluffs’

I have hundreds of poker books in my library and most of them are not very good, in my opinion. I am trying to recommend a few good books to put on your shelves, though, and that has made me re-examine some titles that had gone into…

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Tue, February 26th, 2008

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  • NUT / NUTS - The best possible hand of a given class. Not a LOCK unless all cards have been dealt. The "nut flush" is the highest possible flush, but might still lose to, e.g., a full house. Usually used in Hold'em games.
  • OPEN-HANDED - A category of games characterized by a part of each player's hand being exposed.
  • BIG BLIND - A blind bet, usually a raise of an earlier blind which would be called the SMALL BLIND. In limit poker, the BIG BLIND is usually the size of the minimum bet on the first round of betting.
  • COMPUTER HAND - Texas Hold'em hole cards of Q-7 offsuit. More generically, any hand that computer analysis/simulation determines is positive but turns out to be difficult to play in practice.
  • STRAIGHT - A hand consisting of 5 cards in sequence but not in suit.
  • POCKET ROCKETS - In Hold'em, a pair of aces for hole cards.
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