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
To split a pot
To split a pot because of a tie, split-pot game, or player agreement. To play a game for a short time and cash out. Also "hit and run". A request made by a player to a dealer after taking a large-denomination chip that he wishes the dealer to make change. To chop blinds. An agreement by all players remaining in a tournament to distribute the remaining money in the prize pool according to an agreed-upon formula instead of playing the tournament to completion. Usually occurs at the final table of a large tournament.
chopping the blinds
chopping the blinds Ending a hand when all players have folded to the blinds with the blinds being returned to those who paid them. See main article: chopping the blinds. click raise Making the minimum raise. Referring to online poker when you click the raise button without specifying the amount of raise. closed See main article: closed.