Last month I wrote about some important poker terms that are important to know if you are working towards beating the Mac poker games. I thought that I would do that again with some new terminology for my next few entries. To entertain myself, I will go in order through the alphabet and explain one dictionary entry for each letter. Hopefully these next few entries help you out.
For the letter A, I will explain the word “ante”. You will want to know about this word for sure if you play tournaments on a Full Tilt download. An ante is a bet that must be paid by all players at the table before the hand is dealt. The ante is usually around a tenth of the big blind, although it can be more or less depending on the game.
You will already know what a “bluff” is if you watch poker on TV. When someone bluffs, they are representing a stronger hand than the one they actually hold in order to make better hands fold. If you ever watch high stakes poker on US friendly poker sites, you will probably see some great bluffs being made.
For the letter C, I will define “chip dumping”, an offense that the best US poker sites all take very seriously. Chip dumping occurs when someone intentionally loses their chips to someone else. Sometimes people do this to share chips between friends in a tournament, and it can even be a way to launder money for those into illegal activities. This is why money poker sites want their security team paying attention to suspicious activity on the tables.
When reading articles on beating Daniels Room poker, you will probably read about “dirty outs” every so often. You have a situation of dirty outs when cards that improve your hand improve an opponent’s hand even more. For example, imagine you are playing cash games on a Bwin Poker download and have an open ended straight draw on a board with a couple hearts. If you make your straight when a third heart comes out, this could be a dirty out since someone may have also made a flush.
I am going to stop here, but I will be back sometime in October. In the meantime, maybe you should do some research on PokerStars rakeback. Good luck at the tables!
