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
In a fixed limit game,
In a fixed limit game, the standard betting amount. There were six bets in the pot when I called. betting structure The complete set of rules regarding forced bets, limits, raise caps, and such for a particular game. See main article: betting. big bet The larger of two bet amounts in a fixed limit game. See main article: big bet. big bet game A game played with a no limit or pot limit betting structure. big blind The larger of two forced bets in certain types of poker. See main article: blind. big blind specialA hand won by the big blind playing very weak pocket cards because there was no raise pre-flop. big full The best possible full house in community card games. I had the big full when the flop came A-A-5 and my hole cards were A-5. A stronger hand than the "underfull".
big stack
big stack A stack of chips that is relatively large for the stakes being played. Also called "deep stack". Compare with "short stack". blank A card, frequently a community card, of no apparent value. I suspected Margaret had a good draw, but the river card was a blank, so I bet again. Compare to "rag", "brick", "bomb". blaze A Non-standard online hold'em poker hand of five face cards that outranks a flush. bleed Consistently losing chips through bad play, possibly resulting from tilt. When a player is consistently losing chips, they are "bleeding chips."