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
fouled hand
fouled hand A hand that is ruled unplayable because of an irregularity, such as being found with too many or too few cards, having been mixed with cards of other players or the muck, having fallen off the table, etc. Compare to "dead hand". four-flush Four cards of the same suit. A non-standard poker hand in some games, an incomplete drawing hand in most. See main article: Four flush. four of a kind A hand containing four cards of equal rank. Also "quads". See List of poker hands.
four-straight
four-straight Four cards in rank sequence; either an open-ender or one-ender. A non-standard poker hand in some games, an incomplete drawing hand in most. Sometimes "four to a straight". fourth street 1.The fourth card dealt to the board in community card games. Also "turn". 2.The fourth card dealt to each player in stud.