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
tight
tight 1.To play fewer hands (and thus fewer weaker hands) than average for the game or for the player normally. See loose/tight play. Compare to "loose", "aggressive", "passive". 2.Having a tight is also slang for a "full house". tilt Emotional upset, mental confusion, or frustration in which a player adopts a less than optimal strategy, usually resulting in poor play and poor performance. See main article: tilt. Compare with 'steam'. to go The amount that a player is required to call in order to stay in the hand, "Alice was deciding whether to call now it was $50 to go." toke In a brick and mortar casino, a toke is a "tip" given to the dealer by the winner of the pot. Tokes often represent a large percentage of a dealer's income. top kicker In community card poker games, top kicker is the best possible kicker to some given hand. Usually it would be an Ace, but with an Ace on the board it would be a King or lower.