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
top pair
top pair In community card poker games, top pair is a pair comprising a pocket card and the highest-ranking card on the board. Compare second pair, bottom pair. top two A split two pair, matching the highest-ranking two flop cards. trap See slow play. trey A 3-spot card. Casino personnel refer to the 3? as the "trey of clubs."
trips
trips When one of a player's hole cards in Texas hold 'em connects with two cards on the board to make three of a kind. This differs from a "set" where three of a kind is made when a pocket pair connects with one card on the flop to make three of a kind.