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A player's best focused and disciplined level of play.
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Slang & Abbreviations
Straightforward, fundamentally sound poker with limited trickiness or bluffing.
Tournament & SNG
A registered player not seated when a hand is dealt; tournament rules may still post blinds and antes from their stack.
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GTO & Solver
A simplification used to make poker solvable, such as limiting bet sizes, grouping similar hands, or reducing the game tree while preserving the important strategic features.
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Basic NLHE
A hand with no pair or better where the highest card is an ace.
Basic NLHE
An ace among a player's private hole cards.
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Basic NLHE
An ace with a weak side card, often an unsuited low kicker.
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Basic NLHE
A pair of aces.
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Basic NLHE
Any starting hand containing an ace and one other card.
Basic NLHE
A full house made with three aces and a pair.
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Basic NLHE
Basic NLHE
Cash Game
Basic NLHE
Basic NLHE
GTO & Solver
Cash Game
A game with frequent betting, raising, and large pots.
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Basic NLHE
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A player who enters many pots and creates large betting action.
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Basic NLHE
A player who still has live cards and can win all or part of the pot.
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Tournament & SNG
An optional purchase of extra tournament chips, usually available at a specific point in rebuy tournaments.
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Cash Game
Extra chips purchased in a cash game to increase a player's stack.
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Slang & Abbreviations
Aggression Factor.
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HUD & Stats
Ratio comparing how many aggressive actions (betting and raising) are taken for each passive action (calling).
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HUD & Stats
Preflop & Postflop
Betting and raising rather than checking and calling.
Preflop & Postflop
The player who made the last aggressive action.
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Short for aggressive player or aggressive style.
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A hand with little or no showdown value.
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Basic NLHE
Betting, calling, or raising with every chip in your stack.
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GTO & Solver
Expected value in all-in pots based on each player's equity when the money went in.
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Preflop & Postflop
A short-stack framework where the practical preflop options are shoving or folding.
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GTO & Solver
Tournament & SNG
A player waiting to enter a tournament after seats become available.
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Chips or bankroll available to keep playing.
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Cash Game
Using technically legal but unethical tactics to gain an unfair advantage.
Slang & Abbreviations
Ace-king, because it looks good but does not always win.
Basic NLHE
Basic NLHE
A verbal bet amount that is binding under standard live-poker rules when declared in turn.
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Cash Game
A live structure using both antes and voluntary straddles to increase action.
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Tournament & SNG
To post an ante or, more broadly, to put chips into the tournament cost structure.
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Cash Game
A poker game organized or played through a mobile app, often privately run and varying widely in trust and rules.
Preflop & Postflop
A phrase used in hand review to analyze the decision from the current point after earlier actions are accepted as given.
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Any two cards.
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Attempt to steal.
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Cash Game
A setting or procedure where antes are posted automatically.
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