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Nick Laurrell asked:


Poker is a world of weird words and nicknames. Just as soon as you’ve figured out who Doyle Brunson is, you’re folding him because you figure the limper has cowboys. Sometimes it can just be too much. Here is a glossary of poker slang and nicknames to help you figure out exactly what is being said at the poker table.

Ace-Baby: Ace-baby refers to any set of hole cards with an Ace and a small other card. Ace-baby hands are hands like A-2, A-3, up to about A-7. “Be careful with Ace-Babies from early position.”

Aggressive: An aggressive player is a player who usually makes big bets whenever they are in a hand. “Aggressive players are the most successful players.” NOTE: Aggressive is usually used in tandem with “loose” or “tight” to define a player’s basic gaming style. So a tight-aggressive player is a player who doesn’t play in many hands (tight) but bets big when he is in one (aggressive.)

All-in: When all of your poker chips are in the pot you are said to be all-in or have gone all-in. “I had a strong hand so I went all-in.”
Backdoor: “Backdoor” refers to two consecutive cards on the turn and river which produce a big hand. If there is one Spade on the flop and you are holding two more, then you have a backdoor flush draw because if the turn and river bring Spades then you will have made a flush. “I’ve been betting on my backdoor draws to throw off my opponents.”

Bible or the Poker Bible: While many players have different favorites, Doyle Brunson’s Super Systems is referred to as the Poker Bible. “I got my Bible for free from a rakeback plan.”

Big Ace: A big Ace is a hand with one face card and an Ace like Ace-Jack or Ace-Queen. “Isn’t every big Ace a Blackjack?”

Big Slick: Ace King in the Hole is called Big Slick. “Did you know that Big Slick is an underdog to every pocket pair pre-flop?”

Big Stack: Whoever has the most chips at a table is said to be the big stack as they have the biggest stack of chips. “He was pushing everyone around because he was the big stack.”

The Bitch: The Queen of Spades; this refers to the game of Hearts. “Once the ***** came I figured that he’d made his flush.”

Blinded to Death or, Blinded Out: To lose a lot of chips just calling the blind. Whenever a player is not present at a table but his chips are still in play they are in danger of being blinded out because their blinds will be automatically posted while their hands will be automatically folded. “Stu Ungar had so many chips in the 1990 WSOP Main Event that he was blinded out and still finished in 9th place.”

Bluff, or Buy the Pot: To bet while knowingly without the best hand. The “knowingly” part is important because if you bet with the worst cards thinking you have the best ones, then you are not bluffing - you’re messing up. When a player successfully bluffs they are said to have bought the pot. “He looked weak so I bluffed and bought the pot.”

The Board: The Board is the face up poker cards. Be careful to not confuse community cards and boards as a Board can belong to the table as a whole as it does in Hold’em or to each player specifically as it does in Stud. “How am I going to bet with a pair of pocket eights when there are 3 overcards on the Board?’

Bonus Code: Bonus codes are sign-up passwords for specific gaming sites which grant the user rewards like extra money, extra rakeback percentage and the like. Obviously, bonus codes only exist in the world of online poker. “If you play online poker you must use bonus codes.”

Bottom Pair: The lowest possible pair on any given Board. “I only had bottom pair so I folded.”

Bounty: A bounty is a reward for knocking a specific player out of a tournament. “I knocked out Daniel Negreanu and received a $5,000 bounty.”

Bracelet: A bracelet refers to a World Series of Poker bracelet, which is awarded to only the winner of each event. A poker player with a bracelet is analogous to a basketball player with a ring. “The guy was incredible, like 5 bracelets incredible.”

Broadway: A 10, Jack, Queen, King, Ace straight which is unsuited. “I flopped Broadway, baby.”

Bubble Boy or On the Bubble: In a tournament, only the top 10% or so of players receive money. The last player to receive no money is said to have finished on the bubble, or to be the bubble boy. “Poor bubble boy.”

Bust out, to Bust or to Go Bust: To bust out of a tournament is to be eliminated from a tournament. If you eliminate someone else you are said to have “busted” them. “In his whole life, Stu Ungar was only busted out of 20 tournaments.”

Buy-In: The cost of a tournament is called the buy-in. “The WSOP Main Event is a $10,000 buy in, but the H.O.R.S.E. tournament is a $50,000 buy-in!”



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Imteaz Ahmed asked:


A few years ago, one shift that many different poker websites made was the shift to rakeback. Nowadays when you hear about things like the Absolute Poker rakeback or the Betfair rakeback, these are modern manifestations of the shift that happened awhile ago. There are many questions that the average person has about rakeback however and some of them are answered below.

What is Rakeback?

Quite simply, rakeback is a promotion that is offered by many of the online poker websites whereby a person can get a certain percentage of money raked from their hands refunded to them on a weekly or on a monthly basis. Depending on the poker company the percentage varies, but most online poker sites that offer rakeback give you between 15% and 35% of your rake back on a weekly basis.
How do I get rakeback?

In most cases, you need to signup with the website and open a first time real money account using a specific code that you get from affiliates of that poker website. Then, when you have opened the account, you need to send an e-mail to the support staff in order to get your money refunded to you. After you have synced your account to the rakeback machinery of the online poker site, all subsequent rakeback payments should be handled automatically.

How can the site afford rakeback?

This is a very good question and the answer to it that is most direct is that sometimes the site actually can not afford the rakeback. That is to say that the rakeback promotions sometimes end up sending the profit of the website into a loss and that in turn is something that the site can not afford.

However, the goal of rakeback programs is to sign new players up to the service so that later on down the road the word of mouth about the website will get more players to signup without the rakeback stipulations. Poker sites often do not allow rakeback to players after they have already signed up, even if they were ignorant of the rakeback when they did. With this combination of new players and old ones without rakeback, the poker site hopes to recoup any losses they make on their rakeback enabled clients.

Is there a catch?

For the most part, there is no catch. The only catch is something that is not really a catch but rather an obvious necessity and it is that in order to benefit from the rakeback, you need to play at the website in the ring games. This means that an Absolute Poker Rakeback would require you to play Absolute Poker ring games that are raked and of course the same holds true for other sites such as the Betfair Rakeback.



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Jon B asked:


I’ve heard that some sites are rigged in certain situations
(one being that they will have large hands hit eachother at the same time so that people will go out quicker). I didn’t believe it at first but I’ve been noticing it happening more than it should if it was random.

Anyways, paranoya aside, what seems to be a good site to play poker on?

Thanks!

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Robert asked:


ou have a long experience, have read all the books possible and you know how to see patterns it’s still possible that you will not earn any cash at all playing online. Many users nowdays are quite good, it is not like in the beginning of the online poker epoch when many did not have a clue. It’s quite possible that you will just play a break even streak after a while. To conquer the games, you will need to get the slight upper hand. This minor advantage is called rakeback.

Rakeback is a kind of money back offer. The “charge” taken by the online poker room is called rake. From each hand ever played and tournament joined the poker room gets this fee. This is because their cost for hosting the game and make it secure. However, with rakeback, you get a part of this fee back. The part you will receive is around 30%. The more you play the more extra cash you will gain. You could even lose cash at the poker games, you will end up with a secure amount of cash back at the end of the month. This is a must have for all players, even regular winners. If you don’t have rakeback while you gamble online, you are going to lose a crazy amount of cash.

Pro players might earn as much as $3500 every month and it’s quite usual for a regular player to receive well above $800 a month. Even low stake users playing much online might make as much as $5000 every year. Rakeback is completely free and there is no catch at all. No hidden charges and there’s no negative treatment by the online poker rooms. To play online poker and don’t have rakeback is really wrong.

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