Poker Strategies
After receiving pocket cards, you are immediately faced with a choice: play your cards and either raise or call the blinds, or fold.
Practice Matters
Methods of evaluating low hands. See lowball.
Methods of evaluating low hands. See lowball. act To make a play (bet, call, raise, or fold) at the required time. It is Ted's turn to act. Compare to "in turn". action 1.A player's turn to act. The action is on you. A willingness to gamble. I'll give you action or There's plenty of action in this game.
A bet, along with all the calls of that bet.
A bet, along with all the calls of that bet. For example, if one player makes a $5 bet and three other players call, he is said to have $5 "in action", and to have received $15 worth of action on his bet. Usually this term comes into play when figuring side pots. See table stakes. action button A marker similar to a kill button, on which a player places an extra forced bet. In a seven-card stud high-low game, the action button is awarded to the winner of a scoop pot above a certain size, signifying that in the next pot, that player will be required to post an amount representing a completion of the bring-in to a full bet. For example,