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
grinder
grinder A player who earns a living by making small profits over a long period of consistent, conservative play. Compare to "rock". guts, guts to open 1.A game with no opening hand requirement; that is, where the only requirement to open the betting is "guts", or courage. 2.Any of several texas hold'em poker variants where pots accumulate over several hands until a single player wins. See guts. gut shot, gutshot See inside straight draw.
gypsy
gypsy To enter the pot cheaply by just calling the blind rather than raising. Also "limp". H[edit]half bet rule In some casinos, the rule that placing chips equal to or greater than half the normal bet amount beyond the amount required to call constitutes a commitment to raise the normal amount. For example, in a game with a $4 fixed limit, a player facing a $4 opening bet who places $6 in the pot is deemed to have raised, and must complete his bet to $8. Compare to "full bet rule". See Public cardroom rules and "all in" betting.