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Texas Holdem Poker FAQ
There are lots of concerns which are being raised about the most famous poker game “Texas Holdem Poker”
You can have them clarified by looking in to the strategy section of Texas holdem poker or in to the poker glossary; however, if you are very impatient about it, here are some of the commonly raised concerns.
FAQ:
1. What is Texas holdem Poker?
2. How to play Texas holdem Poker?
3. What do you mean by “Running It Twice” in a No Limit Texas Holdem Poker game?
4. What is no limit game?
5. What is Flop, Turn and River?
6. What do you mean by the big blind and the small blind?
7. What does going all in mean?
8. What does it mean to check, call, raise or fold?
9. What do you mean by the button?
10. What does “limp in” mean?
11. What do you mean by Tight Play, Loose Play, Aggressive Play, Passive Play?
12. What do you mean by playing the board?
13. What do you mean by Over cards?
14. What do you mean by Tilt Mode?
15. What does burning a card mean?
16. What does come over the Top mean?
17. What does playing dead mean?
18. Who is a Fish?
19. What does rebuy mean?
20. What do you mean by rabbit hunting?
21. What do you mean by big slick?
22. What do you mean by American Airlines?
23. What do you mean by Presto?
24. What do you mean by Nuts?
25. What do you mean by “Gut Shot and Belly Busters”?
26. What do you mean by Trips?
27. What do you mean by Overpair, 2nd pair, or Bottom pair?
28. What is "The Deadman's Hand"
29. What do you mean by Union Oil?
30. What does “show one and show all” mean?
1. What is Texas holdem Poker?
Texas Holdem Poker is a seven card stud variant also known as the Cadillac of Poker. This is in fact the most played game in the Poker World. The game is said to have originated in Texas, therefore it is known as Texas Holdem Poker.
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2. How to play Texas holdem Poker?
• Blind posting by the small blind and the big blind happens before the cards are dealt.
• Each player is dealt two face-down pocket cards.
• Five community cards are dealt face-up in the board.
• Each player makes the best five-card poker hand using these seven cards (5 community plus 2 pockets).
• After the two pocket cards are dealt, the first betting round known as the preflop betting takes place.
• Then, three community cards are dealt face up in the center of the board in the poker table.
These cards are known as “the flop” cards and following this, the second round of betting or the flop betting takes place.
• Then, one face up card known as the “turn” card is dealt; this is the third round of betting.
• Then a fifth poker card is dealt in the board, known as the river card, following this a fourth round of betting takes place.
• If there are more than one player in the table, showdown occurs.
The poker player who sits in the dealer position will be the last person to act.
Being the last player to act, he has the advantage of information, because he sees several players act before him.
A white disc represents the dealer position in the table.
• The player left to the dealer is known as the small blind.
• The player left to the small blind is known as the big blind.
Since these two players make their bets without looking in to their cards, they are known as blind bets.
The money for which poker players compete in the game is known as “The Pot.”
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3. What do you mean by “Running It Twice” in a No Limit Texas Holdem Poker game?
Running it twice occurs when all the betting in the hand is completed before all the community cards are dealt.
This takes place when one player is all in and the other who is heads up matches the bet.
Running it twice can be done after the flop or the turn; however, this will be done when one of the two players is all in before the dealing of the community cards. Both of the players must agree for running it twice.
• After they agree, the dealer deals two final cards.
• The pot is split in to two halves.
• One half is given to the winner of the first half of cards.
• And the second half is given to the winner with the second half of the cards.
This is usually requested by players in big money games where they do not want to have their fate decided by the turn or one more card.
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4. What is a no limit game?
In No limit Texas holdem poker games; there is no limitation as to the amount of money that the poker players should place as bets in the betting rounds.
They can frighten their opponents by going all in and making it difficult for them to make a big bet or match their huge bet.
They might rather fold when such a huge bet comes up.
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5. What is Flop, Turn and River?
• The first three face up community cards are known as “the Flop” cards or 3rd street card
• The fourth community card face up is known as the “Turn card” or the 4th Street card
• The fifth community card face up is known as the “River card” or the 5th Street card.
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6. What do you mean by the big blind and the small blind?
The round of betting begins with forced bets, known as “blinds” - the small blind and the big blind.
• The player left to the dealer is known as the small blind. The small blind places half the table minimum in the pot. This player is the first to act.
• The player left to the small blind is known as the big blind. The big blind places the complete table minimum bet in the pot, which is two times the small blind. This player is the second to act.
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7. What does going all in mean?
“All in” refers to choosing to place all of one’s poker chips in the betting round.
When a player goes all in he does not forfeit his hand, in the end if his hand wins, he gets the pot for until which he went all in.
In some cases, side betting might occur and the all in player cannot have claim on that pot that will be shared between players who participated in it.
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8. What does it mean to check, call, raise or fold ?
• Check is when a poker player passes his action without making any kind of betting.
By doing this, he chooses to call, raise or fold after other players in the table make their action.
• Call is when a player makes a bet matching the player's bet by betting an even amount of money.
• Raise is when the player bets an amount bigger than the previous bet.
• Fold is when the player does not wish to play and throws his hand away. The player thus forfeits his claim in the pot.
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9. What do you mean by the button?
The button is a white disc used to denote the position of the dealer in the table.
The game proceeds clockwise from the button. All the dealing and the betting sequences are made clockwise to the button.
After one game has been played and completed, the button is moved to the next spot.
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10. What does “limp in” mean?
Calling a bet before the flop prior to the big blind is denoted by the term 'Limp In.’
In simple terms, entering a pot by calling rather than limping.
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11. What do you mean by Tight Play, Loose Play, Aggressive Play, Passive Play?
'Tight play', 'Loose play', 'Aggressive play' and 'Passive play' are all terminologies used to denote the styles of poker playing:
Loose play and tight play denotes the attitude of the player towards his chips.
Passive and aggressive denotes the player's attitude towards peer poker players in the table.
Tight-aggressive player is daring to bet any high and they prefer that others start the betting and they love to command the table and they prefer competition.
They are big money bettors mostly.
Tight-passive is a method of playing where poker players are too cautious about their money and they follow the methods of how the other players play the game.
This is the kind of play used in most online poker rooms
Loose-aggressive players are very free with their money and the point that differentiates them from the tight aggressive is that they bet high even with weak hands.
They love command and lot of action in the table.
This is normally the type of play in fake money games.
Loose-passive is a style of play where the players play most of the hands; however, they rarely initiate bets or raises.
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12. What do you mean by playing the board?
“Playing the board” is the playing method where the players use the community cards only for the final 5 card hand and without using any of the hole cards.
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13. What do you mean by Over cards?
Over cards is a term used to denote a community card which has a higher rank than the pocket pair of the player or in other words, it is the card which has a rank higher than the other cards in the board.
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14. What do you mean by Tilt Mode?
"Tilt Mode" denotes a situation in poker where the emotions of the player took control over him and he plays like a maniac under the influence of a recent loss.
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15. What does burning a card mean?
"Burning" a card denotes taking the top card off the deck while dealing to avoid the information leakage where players might have seen the top card.
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16. What does come over the Top mean?
When a player makes a raise or re-raise of the bet of another player it is known as come over the top.
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17. What does playing dead mean?
Playing Dead denotes a player without any chance of winning; however, there are still cards to be distributed for the game to be completed.
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18. Who is a Fish?
Fish is an unskilled poker player who makes a lot of calls and lot of bets and plays in an inexperienced way.
He loses most of the time.
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19. What does rebuy mean?
A Rebuy in an option to buy in again a said amount of poker chips if you have exhausted all your chips to play anymore.
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20. What is 'rabbit-hunting'?
A 'rabbit-hunting' refers to looking in to what cards would have come up next in cases where you have already won the game before the cards are dealt.
Such are mostly not permitted in casinos.
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21. What do you mean by big slick?
An Ace-King hole is known as a big slick.
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22. What do you mean by American Airlines?
A-A in pockets is known as "American Airlines"
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23. What do you mean by Presto?
5-5 as the players first 2 cards is known as presto.
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24. What do you mean by Nuts?
The two hole cards making the best possible hand is known as "Nuts"
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25. What are "Gut Shot and Belly Busters"?
"Gut Shot and Belly Busters" is a complete straight draw, a situation where only one card is required to complete the straight.
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26. What do you mean by Trips?
‘Trips’ are pocket cards with two cards on the board making a three of a kind.
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27. What do you mean by Overpair, 2nd pair, or Bottom pair?
• A pocket pair with a high rank than any community card.
• A 2nd Pair game is a pair of cards with the second-top rank on the board.
• A "Bottom pair" is a pair matching the lowest-ranking board card with one of the hole card.
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28. What is "The Deadman's Hand"?
"A Deadman's Hand" is a two pair of black Aces and Eights.
Wild Bill Hickock was shot dead when he played with this hand and therefore this hand is named so.
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29. What do you mean by Union Oil?
7-6 hole cards is known as Union oil, named after an Oil Company.
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30. What does "show one show all" means?
“Show one show all" is a situation where the player is permitted to show one card and muck the other if be won before the showdown.
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