Playing Poker by Daniel Negreanu : Avoid small-ball in deep-stack games
Regular readers of this column know that I am a proponent of small-ball poker, which is characterized by low pre-flop raises and restrained betting on the flop. In small-ball poker, the investment before the flop is minimal compared with the size of the average chip stack.
Related Poker News:
- Legends of Poker: Daniel Negreanu
- Poker Book Review: Daniel Negreanu’s ‘More Hold’em Wisdom for All Players’
- ‘A Weekend with Daniel Negreanu’ Announced
- Daniel Negreanu Column Hits Four Million
- Stacked with Daniel Negreanu
- Cash out with Daniel Negreanu on Xbox live
- Daniel Negreanu is Back
- Daniel Negreanu and Other Pros Lend Helping Hands During the Holidays
- Daniel Negreanus Poker Column Reaches Four Million Newspaper Readers Every Week
- Daniel Negreanu and Greg Raymer Have ‘Online Feud’ Over WPT Lawsuit
- Daniel Negreanu and Wynn Part Ways
- Preparing for the PokerStars WCOOP with Daniel Negreanu
Poker jargon:
- FACE CARD - A jack, queen or king (a card with a face on it, not joker).
- BAD-BEAT JACKPOT - In some cardrooms, a prize that is shared by the players in a game, when a very good hand (usually Aces full, or better) is beaten by a higher hand. Jackpots are usually financed by taking a drop ($1 is a common amount) from every pot. A typical division of the jackpot will give the losing hand 50 %, the winning hand 25 %, and the other players at the table share the remaining 25 % of the Jackpot.
- CHASE - To continue in a hand, often at poor odds, in the hopes of catching a much better hand. "He called, chasing the flush.".
- OUT - [1] A card that will improve your hand, often substantially. A hand with many OUTS is preferable to a hand with only 1 or 2. [2] Folded, ineligible to bet or win this hand. "I'm out" is often a synonym for "I fold".
- COMMUNITY CARDS - Cards that are available for every player to use in making a hand. Usually dealt face up somewhere in the middle of the table.
- TOP TWO PAIR - In flop games, having hole cards that make the highest possible two pair hand.
RSS feed
