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 bet all in.
To bet all in. put the clock (on someone) See main article: call the clock. put on To put someone on a hand is to deduce what hand or range of hands they have based on their actions and your knowledge of their gameplay. See also tells. Q[edit]quads
Four of a kind.
Four of a kind. qualifier, qualifying low A qualifying low hand. High-low split games often require a minimum hand value, such as 8-high, in order to award the low half of the pot. In some home games, there are qualifiers for high hands as well: "Seven stud, trips-eight".