Hold'Em Dictionary

[tame_deuces]

Hold'Em Dictionary:

SNG - 'Shove and Go' tournament. This is a popular type of two-card poker. The flop, turn and river are generally seen as unnecessary sideeffects which can only help the worst hand.
Tournament - A type of poker where King Jack offsuit and pocket aces are commonly regarded as the best hands available.
Ring Game - This is a form of poker named after people's tendency to get married to either their hands, their money or the pot.
Read - A reason for doing a bad play
Tell - Another reason for doing a bad play
Metagame - Yet another reason for doing a bad play.
Stupidity - And yet another reason for doing a bad play, but this one is -EV.
EV - What you should have won in the hand.
Bad Beat - The thing that can save you when you make a play based on reads, tells, metagame or stupidity.
Downswing - When everybody else plays horrible poker.
Upswing - When you play supreme poker.
Final Table - An entire table of players competing to lay the worst bad beat on eachother.
Big Blind - A very bad player who loves to deliver bad beats.
Fish - The fish is a hardy type of player who can survive for long periods of time without good hands.
'I can't win because everybody sucks out on me' - 'I suck.'
'I can't win because I don't get good starting hands' - 'I'm no good.'
'He is the luckiest player alive' - 'He is probably better than me'
'I went on a rush and played really well' - 'My hands held up alot'.
'I went on downswing but played really well' - 'I held on to my hands alot.'
Pocket Aces - This means your pair of aces is hidden in your holecards, this is generally unpreferable as you are more likely to get a bad beat when nobody knows your hand.
Pocket Kings - A hand which is often folded against QQ when an ace flops.
Slow Playing - The art of giving away free cards and losing money.
Check-Raising - An aggressive way of giving away free cards.
Thinning the field - Making bad hands fold.
Information Bet - The art of putting money into the pot with the intention of giving them away.
In position - Begging not to be check-raised.
Out of position - Begging not to be raised.
Bluff - A way of making sure calling wins your opponent more money.
Pot Control - Building the pot so you have odds to call with the worst hand later.
Implied Odds - A hypothetical amount of money you would have earned had your draws hit.
Pot Odds - a number giving the ratio between the pot and your call, this way you can easily see how much more you are going to lose.
Effective Odds - What you lost by calling and didn't win when you missed put together.
Nuts - A hand you can't fold later on when you are behind.
Stone Cold Nuts - A hand where everybody else will fold later on.
Flop - 3 cards rooting against you.
Burn card - Your third ace
Donk Bet - When your opponent magically knows you have ace high.
Tilt - When losing leads to generosity.
Semi-Bluffing - When you bluff and almost win the pot when your opponent calls.
Isolating - Making sure a bad player can give nobody else but yourself a bad beat.
Squeeze - Bluffing when somebody is more likely to have the stone cold nuts.
Floating - Wanting to see your opponent bet on the turn also.

[Leo]

moved to begginer's questions.

[vyni]

Ok... moved to beginnners so I think it best we explain to beginners that this post was made as a joke.... lol