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Poker Terms
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TA
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An abbreviation for Tight Aggressive.
Table Coach
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The table know-it-all
who likes to tell everyone how he or she should be playing their
cards.
Tap Out
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Losing all of your money.
Tells
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A 'tell'
in poker is when you pick up on the behavior of another player that
gives you a strong sense of the strength or weakness of their hand.
Three-Bet
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The first re-raise
(putting 3 bets in).
Three Of A Kind
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three cards of the same rank.
Throwing a Party
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When several loose or amateur players are making significant
monetary contributions to the pot.
Tilt
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Playing recklessly, usually as a result of a bad beat (real or
perceived). Also known as steaming.
Trap
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When one player is caught between 2 (or more) bettors
/ raisers, and is unlikely to win the pot.
Two Pair
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a hand consisting of two sets of pairs and a singleton.
Table Stakes - A rule in a poker game
meaning that a player may not go into his pocket for money during a
hand. He may only invest the amount of money in front of him into
the current pot. If he runs out of chips during the hand, a side pot
is created in which he has no interest. All casino poker is played
table stakes. The definition sometimes also includes the rule that a
player may not remove chips from the table during a game. While this
rule might not be referred to as "table stakes," it is enforced
almost universally in public poker games.
Thin - As in "drawing thin." To be drawing to
a very few outs, perhaps only one or two.
Toke - A small amount of money (typically
$.50 or $1.00) given to the dealer by the winner of a pot. Quite
often, tokes represent the great majority of a dealer's income.
Top Pair - A pair with the highest card
on the flop. If you have As-Qs, and the flop comes Qd-Th-6c, you
have flopped top pair. See "second pair."
Top Set - The highest possible trips.
Example: you have Tc-Ts, and the flop comes Td-8c-9h. You have
flopped top set.
Top Two - Two pair, with your two hole
cards pairing the two highest cards on the board.
Top and Bottom - Two pair, with
your two hole cards pairing the highest and lowest cards on the
board.
Trips - Three of a kind.
Turn - The fourth community card. Put out
face up, by itself. Also known as "fourth street." |
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