Tournament Strategies
After receiving pocket cards, you are immediately faced with a choice: play your cards and either raise or call the blinds, or fold.
Practice Matters
suck out
suck out A situation when a hand heavily favored to win loses to an inferior hand after all the cards are dealt. The winning hand is said to have "sucked out". Compare to "bad beat". suited Having the same suit. See card suits. suited connectors See main article: suited connectors.
super satellite
super satellite A multi-table poker tournament in which the prize is a free entrance to a satellite tournament or a tournament in which all the top finishers gain entrance to a larger tournament. T[edit]table stakes See main article: table stakes. tag A "tight aggressive" style of play in which a player plays a small number of strong starting hands, but when in pots plays aggressively. tainted outs Cards that improve a hand so that it is better than the other current hands, but simultaneously improve other hands even more. See also outs.