Poker basic rules - Glossary of Poker Terms
Poker can be a confusing game, especially if you don't know your straights from your flushes!
Poker A-Z
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Paint cards - Picture cards
Pair - Two cards of the same denomination
Pass - Fold
Pay off - To call a bet or raise when you don't think you have the best hand
Pay station - A player who calls, bets and raises more than usual; calling station
Picture cards - King, Queen and Jack; face cards; court cards; paint cards
Playing the board - In flop games, if your best five card hand uses the five community cards
Pocket - Another name for hole
Pocket rockets - A pair of aces in the hole
Position - Your seat in relation to the dealer, and thus your place in the betting order
Post - To post a bet is to place your chips in the pot
Pot - The money or chips in the center of the table available to win
Pot limit - A game in which the maximum bet is the total of the pot
Pot odds - The amount of money in the pot versus the amount of money it will cost you to continue in the hand
Protect a hand - To protect a hand is to bet so as to reduce the chances of anyone outdrawing you by getting them to fold
Put down - Fold
Put him on - To guess an opponent's hand and play accordingly
Putting on the heat - Pressuring your opponents with aggressive betting strategies to get the most value from your hand
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Strategy Guides
- Staying in the game
- Check your position
- On the flop
- Turn and river
- Slow playing and trapping
- Large stack dominion
- Short stack aggressiveness
- Table image
- Choosing your table
- Choosing your style
- Projecting your image
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