Poker vernacular...

Hugh_C

I'm developing an interest in Texas Hold'Em but find the language seriously difficult.


Anyone care to enlighten me what a suited connector is for instance? I thought it might be a sharp dresser or something who works a table...

Alas no.

Any vernacular pointers?

Davey Devil

A suited connector is a hand which contains the same suit and consecutive numbers.
Example: 8,9 of diamonds, 10,J of Spades etc.

DeVore

ok here goes...

Pocket Aces: A pair of aces as your initial pair.
Flop: The initial three community cards (cards in the middle everyone can use)
Turn (or Fourth Street): the fourth community card
River (or Fifth Street): the last community card
Suited connectors: Two cards that are "touching" (8 and 9, or 4 and 5) and of the same suit.
Fish: Player who doesnt know what they are doing at the level of the table they are playing at.
Trapping: Feigning weakness to induce an aggressive player to try and bully you while in fact you are wearing his balls as a necklace
Big Slick: AK (I dont know if they have to be suited or not)
Cowboys: KK
Hooks: JJ

Bad Beat: Being heavily the favourite in a hand but losing to a very unlikely turn or river card.
On Tilt: Playing off your game plan because you are annoyed or frustrated or bored or had a bad beat.
Buy In: losing all your chips and having to buy more to get back into the game.
Freeze Out: The point from which you cant buy in any more.
Top Up: At the freezeout most tournaments will allow all players to buy more chips so long as they have chips in front of them. (You can buy in and then immediately top up if you lost everything on the last hand before the top up.)
Small Blind: a compulsory bet that the person to the left of the dealer must make before any cards are dealt. It acts a lot like a traditional "ante" that is common in home games.
Big Blind: another (bigger, usually double the S.B.) compulsory bet made by the person to the left of the small blind before cards are dealt.
Mucked: Cards that are folded.
Limping in: Calling the big blind (ie not raising) with a weak hand hoping to hit something on the flop.
Stealing: Raising big preflop to get everyone to fold and you take the blinds without having to play the hand.
Made Hand: A hand where you have already got the cards you need and is as good as its likely to get.
Drawing hand: A hand that has a reasonable chance of becoming a made hand but at that point isnt more then its highest card.
All In: Betting everything you have.


I cant think of any others (ask if you want to, none of us knew any of these before we played a fair bit...)

In case I forgot any heres a fairly comprehensive list:
http://www.ildado.com/casino_glossary.html

DeV.

Hugh_C

brilliant! thanks dev.

pocket rockets? AA?

A grossly newbie question - how does the All In rule work? Assuming you've fewer chips than whoever you're betting against...

Lafortezza

Originally posted by hughchal
A grossly newbie question - how does the All In rule work? Assuming you've fewer chips than whoever you're betting against...

If you have 2000 chips and opponents A and B have 5000 and 10000 respectively, then you go all-in for 2000, player A goes all in for 5000, then Player B calls both your all-ins

Then: 2000 is taken from all 3 players to make the pot that you can win
(2000 x 3)=6000
Player A's remaining 3000 is put with 3000 from Player B in a seperate pot, who hangs on to his remaining chips as nobody else has chips let to bet!

Players A and B can win both pots, you can only win the 6000 pot.

cormie

you will also get the blinds (assuming they are less than or equal to 2,000) you will also get everything thats been put in the main pot before you go all in (if you go all in on river say) unless somebody before you goes all in on river with 3,000. Pyou will get everything in pot -1000.