Inside Poker: 8/10/2008
By Steve Rosenbloom Poker is about making good decisions based on your hand, your stack, your opponents, their style, the pot size and the cards on the board. As the hand proceeds, you gain information that can help you make the right decisions, but sometimes you’re not sure where you are in a hand until it’s too late.
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Useful poker terms:
- OPENERS - Cards in a hand that qualify a player to open the betting.
- MARKED CARDS - Cards that have been (illegally) altered so that their value can be read from the back.
- 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.
- OVERPAIR - In Hold'em, a pair in the hole that is larger than any community card on the board.
- ON TILT - Playing worse (usually, more aggressively) than usual because a player has become emotionally upset.
- RAIL - A barrier dividing the card playing area from a public area.
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