Poker Heroes

Poker and Some of its Terms

Mastery poker vocabulary, or poker slang, can be used to fool your opponents into believing that you are professional poker player, when you are just a novice poker player. Learn some of the poker jargons to stop your poker ignorance and improve the lecvel of your confidence in poker.

Aggressive- this is a type of poker player that almost always raises and bet to intimidate other players.

Outs - the possibility that you'll get the card or cards that you need to form a good hand. Good poker players compute the outs before they act.

Quads -this sounds like the word quarter, which means four. In poker, it means you got four-of-a kind, for example, if you got 4 Jacks, then you got quads.

Shark - an excellent, strong poker player who takes away money from the weaker ones.

All-in - a poker action wherein a player bets all of his or her poker chips, and risks losing them all and being out of the game.

Boat - in poker, a boat means a full house, instead of the usual means of transportation by water.

Bullets - also known in poker as the pocket aces, you have this when you get two aces at pre-flop

Fish - a weaker poker player who throws money away

Flop - these are the first three community cards, drawn before the turn

Big Slick - they are big because these cards are the Ace and King, offsuit

Blind - a required bet to ensure that the winner will get something if ever everybody else folded their cards

Bluff - a poker strategy that involves deceiving other players. A player does this when he or she really has not a good hand but makes others believe that he or she does by betting or raising.

Fold - to give up your hand and your rights to the pot

Holecards - these are the cards drawn to each player face down before the flop

Misdeal - mistake on the card-dealing. Cards must be re-shuffled and then dealt again.

Turn - in poker, this is the fourth community card, drawn after the flop and before the river

River - drawn after the turn, it's the fifth community card

Stack - these are your collection of chips, piled in front of you on the poker table.

Split pot - this occurs when two players or more are tied for the pot. It means that no hand is better than the other, so they split the pot.