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
To split a pot
To split a pot because of a tie, split-pot game, or player agreement. To play a game for a short time and cash out. Also "hit and run". A request made by a player to a dealer after taking a large-denomination chip that he wishes the dealer to make change. To chop blinds. An agreement by all players remaining in a tournament to distribute the remaining money in the prize pool according to an agreed-upon formula instead of playing the tournament to completion. Usually occurs at the final table of a large tournament.
chopping the blinds
chopping the blinds Ending a hand when all players have folded to the blinds with the blinds being returned to those who paid them. See main article: chopping the blinds. click raise Making the minimum raise. Referring to online online hold'em poker when you click the raise button without specifying the amount of raise. closed See main article: closed.