Steve Rosenbloom on Poker: Making the right bet the secret to cashing a big pot
Poker is a game of mistakes. The object is to put your opponent in a position to make an error that gets you his chips. One of the spots in which mistakes are frequently made is on the river. Often, it involves a value bet, which is a wager sized to get an opponent to call with the second-best hand.
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Poker jargon:
- MITES AND LICE - A hand consisting of two pair, threes over twos.
- 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.)
- 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.
- BEE No. 92 (TM) - Trade name for the "diamond back" cards frequently used in casino games. Compare: RIDER BACK.
- BELLY BUSTER - An inside straight draw. Same as GUTSHOT.
- DOYLE BRUNSON - In Hold'em, 10-2 in the hole. So named because Doyle Brunson won two straight WSOPs (q.v.) in 1975 and 1976 with 10-2 on the last hand. (Suited (spades) in 1975, unsuited in 1976).
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