Poker Education

Time for another entry full of poker terms you would benefit from learning when you download money poker sites. Last time I left off at the letter E.

Whether you prefer tourneys or cash games on Ultimate Bet for Mac, “effective stacks” is a word that comes into play very often. When two players are in a pot, the maximum either of them can bet is the amount that the shorter stack has. The shorter stack is the effective stack. If you have 3,400 chips and your opponent has 2,200, the effective stack is 2,200.

For the letter F I chose the term “flip”, an idea you might encounter while playing with friends on a Lucky Ace Poker download. If you decide to participate in a flip, you must push your entire stack in with any two cards that you are dealt. You might be thinking to yourself that this does not coincide with the definition of flip you heard the other day. Well a flip can also describe a situation in which you have 50% equity. For example, if you sit at a cash table and you get it all-in preflop with QQ vs AK, this is referred to as a flip since you take down the pot around 50% of the time.

I wanted to review the term “gutshot” next. A gutshot is any straight draw with just 4 outs. For example, say you chose to play some hands rather than play Craps online, and you get dealt 78 preflop. You open limp on the button and you get A46 on the flop. The straight draw you have is called a gutshot since there is only one card that can come to make your hand (four outs). The word gutshot is interchangeable with “inside straight draw”.

I chose “Hero fold” for the letter H. It is a hero fold when you reluctantly lay down a strong hand. Pretend that you are sitting at tables on your Everest Poker download and you are playing with someone that you have never seen raise before. You peel 45 and get a 678 flop, but instead of folding or calling, your opponent decides to raise! Folding this hand following a single raise is definitely a case of a hero fold. It may seem nitty, but unlike most other games, poker is a thinking game and sometimes tough decisions are needed.

That’s it for me today, but I will be sure to continue on when I write another entry in a few weeks. Between now and then, hopefully you play a ton of hands. Give PokerStars a try if you have not already done so. Tu primer juego de póquer, tu primer torneo, tu primer pozo. Empieza donde está lo mejor del póquer. No esperes más para descargar PokerStars.