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
backdoor
backdoor 1.A draw requiring two or more rounds to fill. For example, catching two consecutive cards in two rounds of seven-card stud or Texas hold 'em to fill a straight or flush. A hand made other than the hand the player intended to make. I started with four hearts hoping for a flush, but I backdoored two more kings and my trips won. back in To enter a pot by checking and then calling someone else's open on the first betting round. usually used in games like Jackpots, meaning to enter without openers. back into To win a pot with a hand that would have folded to any bet. For example, two players enter a pot of draw poker, both drawing to flushes. Both miss, and check after the draw. The player with the ace-high draw "backs into" winning the pot against the player with only a king-high draw. Also to make a backdoor draw, for example, a player who starts a hand with
three of a kind,
three of a kind, but makes a runner-runner flush, can be said to back into the flush. backraise A reraise from a player that previously called in the same betting round. I decided to backraise with my pocket eights to isolate the all-in player. bad beat Losing with what is, or appears to be, a considerably stronger hand. See main article: bad beat. balance Playing very different hands in the same way, with the aim of making it more difficult for an opponent to gain useful information about the cards a player has, even though on a value basis one would play them differently. bank Also called the house, the person responsible for distributing chips, keeping track of the buy-ins, and paying winners at the end of the game.